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Matt Qvortrup – Greenland’s General Election will be about independence, Trump, minerals and a whole lot more

March 10, 2025 Ben Wray 0

Greenlanders go to the polls tomorrow, with Trump’s wish to annex the country hanging over the election. Professor Matt Qvortrup is a Senior Research Fellow at the ANU’s Centre for European Studies and author of […]

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Gustav Agneman: Trump wants Greenland – but here’s what the people of Greenland want

February 5, 2025 Ben Wray 0

Most Greenlanders want independence, although not necessarily now, and the vast majority don’t want to be part of the United States. Gustav Agneman is Associate Professor of Economics at the Norwegian University of Science and […]

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Ben Wray – Western corporations and states are complicit in West Papua’s “human and environmental catastrophe”

July 10, 2024 Ben Wray 0

A report from the Permanent People’s Tribunal on West Papua, held in London on 27-29 June, which heard direct from West Papuans about the disastrous effects of Indonesian rule on their lives and land. Ben […]

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George Kerevan – How the SNP was seduced by the EU’s fake internationalism

September 4, 2023 Ben Wray 0

The history of the Scottish National Party’s trajectory from arch-critics of the EU in the 1970s to arch-sycophants today. George Kerevan is a Scottish journalist and economist, and a former SNP MP. Cross-posted from Conter […]

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Ben Wray: Spain heads to a snap General Election with the right-wing ascendant

May 29, 2023 Ben Wray 0

The Prime Minister responded to disappointing local election results yesterday by calling a snap General Election, the result of which is highly unpredictable Ben Wray is a freelance journalist based in the Basque Country, and […]

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Berto Sagrera: Spain fails to comply with UN resolution on rights of Catalan political prisoners

March 8, 2023 Ben Wray 0

El Nacional.Cat reports that the Spanish Government has dismissed the UN’s opinion that the state had violated the political rights of Catalan pro-independence leaders when they were imprisoned after the 2017 referendum. Read the article […]

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Ben Wray: Are Europe’s independence movements dead?

March 4, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Europe’s independence movements are no longer the threat they were in the mid-2010s, but it would be premature to write-them off entirely. Ben Wray is the co-ordinator of BRAVE NEW EUROPE’s Gig Economy Project and […]

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Luke Stobart: Catalonia’s Independence Struggle Has Deep Roots

February 22, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Review of A People’s History of Catalonia by Michael Eaude (Pluto Press, 2022). Read the article HERE.

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James Foley and Ben Wray: How socialists should think about national independence struggles

September 2, 2022 Ben Wray 0

Extract from new book ‘Scotland After Britain: The two souls of Scottish independence’ on the Marxist approach to nations, nationalism and independence movements Read the article HERE

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Ricardo’s Dream: How Economists Forgot the Real World and Led Us Astray by Nat Dyer

June 15, 2025 0

Book Review by Branko Milanović This is an extraordinarily difficult book to review. Not because the main thesis is unclear or because it is written in a too complex way but because it combines, in […]

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A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine by Chris Hedges

May 5, 2025 0

Book Review by Chris Green It provides a modicum of relief to one’s mental health to turn from Nicholas Kristof’s lame bothsidesism and Bernie Sanders’s blather about Israel’s “right to defend itself” to reading Chris […]

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