The French government seeks to “flexibilize” public jobs amid a climate of growing citizen discontent, which made it possible for all big unions to reach a common stand for the first time.
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Economics
Jo Michell – Health vs. the Economy: A False Choice
Boris Johnson is framing the Covid-19 debate as ‘health vs. the economy’ – but his government’s approach to this crisis has helped neither, and nor will recklessness in easing the lockdown. Read here
Austerity
Bill Mitchell: The ‘fiscal contraction expansion’ lie lives on – now playing in Italy – Part 2
It will be madness if Italy bows to the pressure from the European Commission and the IMF and its related bullies like Blanchard and Co. and engages in more fiscal austerity. Italy is on the […]
Food Production
George Monbiot: Goodbye – and good riddance – to livestock farming
From The Guardian Livestock production is the single largest driver of habitat loss. Grazing livestock are a fully automated system for ecological destruction. Animal farming looks as incompatible with a sustained future for humans and […]
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