The May ’68 Movement was the start of a historical period of considerable reduction in social inequalities in France which ran out of steam later for quite different reasons.
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Thomas Piketty: May 1968 and inequality
Climate Crisis
Rapid Transition Alliance: Launch of the Global Alliance for a Green New Deal
Forget the EU Brown Deal, with its goal of protecting German mercantilism. Real solutions are needed like the Green New Deal. Read here
EU politics
Sinn Féin: Carthy forces ECB to reveal it profited by 73 billion from eurozone misery
A Sinn Féin member of the European parliement, Matt Carthy, has exposed the fact that the European Central Bank made profits of 73 billion euros from the Securities Market Programme used to “aid” the peripheral […]
Economics
Adam Tooze: The Death of the Central Bank Myth
For decades, monetary policy has been treated as technical, not political. The pandemic has ended that illusion forever. Read here
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