EU politics
Owen Jones: Young people are rewiring capitalism with their McStrike
A precarious and exploited workforce has had enough: young employees are joining unions and demanding to be heard Read here
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Economics
Owen Jones: The mood has shifted – now Corbyn really can transform the economy
Encouraging after the political disgrace, which was the “anti-semitism in the Labour Party” is how the British public has reacted – in the polls and its ability to determine the poltical discourse. Being able to […]
Austerity
Austerity
Owen Jones – The hard right can only be defeated from the left, not from the centre
It is a paradox: the centre-right and centre-left parties with their neo-liberal policies have lost democratic credibility and have opened the gates to the ultra-right and fascist parties. These same political elements are now supposed […]
EU politics
Owen Jones: Talk to Deliveroo couriers. See a dystopia that could be your future
The gig economy via tech platforms have become the epitomy of modern worker exploitation. How workers are fighting back. Read here
Austerity
Owen Jones: Carillion is no one-off scandal. Neoliberalism will bring many more
Carillion was a British mulitnational facilities, services, and construction company, which primarily lived from the outsourcing of UK government contracts until is went dramatically went bust earlier this year with massive losses of public money, […]
EU politics
Owen Jones: Momentum campaigning brought in votes – but Labour needs more
Despite corporate media’s attempt to depict the recent election in England as a defeat for Labour (it may not have been a landslide victory, but if Labour has won many seats and the Tories lost […]
Austerity
Owen Jones: Food banks shouldn’t even exist. Don’t let them become the new normal
Unfortunately food banks are the new normal and not only in the UK. In most of the EU you will find food banks or the equivalent run by the Red Cross and other humanitarian organisations. […]
Austerity
Owen Jones: Don’t be fooled by Emmanuel Macron the ‘moderate’
The story keeps repeating itself. The corporate press praises a centre- left of centre-right politician as “progressive” and “socially fair” and what is the result? An enforcer of neo-liberalism. Read here Also read Oliver Davis […]
Media
Owen Jones: If the BBC is politically neutral, how does it explain Andrew Neil?
One knows that there is a political re-awakening when institutions are being called into question and challenged. In the last weeks Britain’s left has been increasingly criticising the lack of political neutrality in the BBC, […]