Energy
Harrison Stetler: Emmanuel Macron’s Government Is Ordering Striking Oil Workers Back to Work
France’s oil refineries’ strikes is developing into a major national crisis. Read the article HERE
Jacobin
EU politics
Guido Liguori: In Italy, a Once-Mighty Left Is Struggling to Make Its Mark
The left is almost irrelevant to the 25 September election in Italy – what went wrong? Read the article HERE
Austerity
Jacobin: Emmanuel Macron Is Not Your Friend
“We can think of Macron as an updated, French version of Bill Clinton and Tony Blair, with a dollop of the newer generation of triangulators.” An interesting analysis of Macron: past, present, and future. Read […]
Deregulation
Jacobin: Saving France’s Railways
An interview with Bruno Poncet Yesterday, French rail workers kicked off months of rolling strikes against Macron’s attacks on their working conditions. Read here
EU politics
Luke Stobart – Catalonia: Past and Future
This is a very long article and a few weeks old, but provides a wealth of background material concerning the current conflict in Catalonia Luke Stobart is a writer based in London and Barcelona Cross-posted […]