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Guy Standing – Why a Job Guarantee is a bad joke for the precariat – and for freedom

September 12, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

“Rather than jobs per se, the primary challenge is to build a new income distribution system, recognising that the old one has broken down irretrievably. The rentiers are running away with all the revenue thrown […]

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Éric Fassin – The neo-fascist moment of neoliberalism

August 9, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

How can we understand the simultaneous rise of the far right and the authoritarian evolution of neoliberalism? We need an antifascism that can highlight the latter’s role in this “neo-fascist moment.” Also read “How the […]

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John Weeks – Free markets and the decline of democracy

July 26, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

What is the source of the 21st century tendency to authoritarianism? The central purpose of neoliberal re-regulation is to remove economic policy from control by representative democracy. John Weeks is Professor Emeritus at SOAS, University of […]

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Carys Roberts – Jeff Bezos’s fortune has come at the expense of workers and society not receiving their fair share

July 20, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

The richest man in the world did not get there alone; his wealth is created by the exploitation of Amazon’s millions of workers, suppliers and consumers. By Carys Roberts, Senior Economist at IPPR and an […]

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Omer Tekdemir – Turkey’s three-dimensional populism, three leaders and three blocs

June 22, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

This is the third cross-posting from out partner website The New Pretender, concerning today’s elections in Turkey. In this article, Omer Tekdemir analyses the strategies of the main forces involved in the campaign to conclude […]

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Open Democracy – Greece: in need of a debt relief that actually works

June 20, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

It’s not too late to steer the Greek economy and the EU towards a sustainable development course for the twenty-first century. There are tools to deliver this. Policy-makers should use them. By Olivier Vardakoulias is […]

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Open Democracy – George Osborne’s London Evening Standard sells its editorial independence to Uber, Google and others – for £3 million

May 31, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

How many articles, commentaries, and other media reports were we confronted with concerning “fake news”? No one mentioned “bought news”, which is a greater menace. The goal of corporate media is profit. Those paying for […]

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EU politics

Hilary Wainwright – Britain: The new economics of Labour

February 27, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Tory-supporting media, unchallenged by a supposedly liberal press, portray Corbyn as a Soviet fellow-traveller, while unnoticed the shadow chancellor sets out a vision which breaks with the bureaucratic model of 1945. Cross-posted from Open Democracy […]

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Open Democracy – Can radical social democracy save us?

February 18, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

  Paul Mason, Dr Faiza Shaheen, Anthony Barnett and Dr Johnna Montgomerie discuss whether radical social democracy offers a way out of the crisis of neoliberalism, and what that means for future economic policy.   […]

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Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany by Norman Ohler

August 10, 2025 0

Book review by  Branko Milanović As I walked yesterday past the Metropolitan Museum in New York, I saw, among many stands that sell all kinds of trinkets, a table filled with books. One attracted my […]

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The Spectre of State Capitalism by Ilias Alami and Adam D Dixon

July 2, 2025 0

Reviewed by J. D. Evans Alami and Dixon’s The Spectre of State Capitalism is a careful discussion of a topic often dealt with in platitudes and sound-bites. The authors cover uses of ‘state capitalism’ as […]

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