This and that for your Sunday reading. – Jay Shambaugh, Ryan Nunn and Stacy Anderson write about the lasting effects of racial and regional inequality. – Samuel Stein discusses the lessons activists can take from New York’s successful pushback against Amazon’s demands for billions in public giveaways. And Joseph Stiglitz
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Things Are Good: Portugal Joins Other Countries by Running Only on Renewable Energy
Portugal reached a very significant milestone on its path to being fully powered by renewables by consuming energy only from sustainable resources for four days. Other countries are on similar paths. In 2012 Germany got 50% of it’s power from renewable sources, Scotland powered itself exclusively on renewables for a
Continue readingParchment in the Fire: Greece eyes alliance of southern EU states – POLITICO
September conference planned with France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Cyprus and Malta.
Source: Greece eyes alliance of southern EU states – POLITICOFiled under: Eurozone crisis Tagged: France, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Southern Europe, Spain
Parchment in the Fire: Left Bloc’s Political Motion and the Struggle Against Austerity
By Hugo Monteiro | 23 May 16 | Portuguese politics is in limbo. The good news is that this limbo, the thin ice on which this agreement is skating, also presents an opportunity to engage in clear and clean politics with room for actual negotiation. The bad news for the right wing and its allies… More Left Bloc’s Political Motion and the Struggle Against Austerity
Parchment in the Fire: Income, Class and Austerity in Southern Europe
Data from Southern Europe indicates a trend of wealth distribution to the top 20% of income earners since the onset of austerity. At the outset of the Global Financial Crisis in 2007, the income share of the bottom 20% of income earners in Greece and Portugal increased, whereas the income share of the top 20%… More Income, Class and Austerity in Southern Europe
Parchment in the Fire: Portugal: austerity interrupted…but for how long?
Last month, nationwide anti-austerity protests in Portugal turned into celebration when the country’s centre-right government, victorious in national elections, saw its programme rejected in Parliament. The torch was passed to a leftist coalition promising to reverse years of painful austerity. “Inside defeated, outside, rejected!” supporters shouted, broad smiles on their faces as they witnessed Prime… More Portugal: austerity interrupted…but for how long?
Parchment in the Fire: Portugal’s new social and political context ~ Global Labour Column
Source: Portugal’s new social and political context ~ Global Labour ColumnFiled under: Eurozone crisis Tagged: Austerity, Eurozone Crisis, Portugal
Continue readingParchment in the Fire: Full Contents of the Agreement between Socialist Party and Left Bloc | Esquerda
The full contents of the agreement signed between the Socialist Party and the Left Bloc can be read here. Source: Full Contents of the Agreement between Socialist Party and Left Bloc | Esquerda Filed under: Eurozone crisis Tagged: Austerity, Eurozone Crisis, Portugal
Continue readingParchment in the Fire: What is the Left Bloc? | Esquerda
In this article, we shall present information which allows the reader to get a clear picture of how and in which political climate the Left Bloc was founded and how it has developed. Source: What is the Left Bloc? | Esquerda Filed under: Eurozone crisis, Socialism, Southern Europe Tagged: Eurozone
Continue readingParchment in the Fire: Left Parties In Portugal Vow to Topple New Center-Right Government, pt. II
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Continue readingParchment in the Fire: Left Parties In Portugal Vow to Topple New Center-Right Government
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Continue readingParchment in the Fire: Surge in Portuguese Left Bloc Support Puts Socialist Party on the Spot | The Bullet No. 1179
Will Portugal finally see the end of austerity as administered for four years by the right-wing coalition (known as Portugal Ahead) composed of the Social-Democratic Party (PSD) and Democratic and Social Centre-People’s Party (CDS-PP)? In the country’s legislative October 4 elections this governing alliance, running for the first time as
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Was there just a coup in Portugal? Why did Canada’s media ignore the story?
PHOTOS: The São Bento Palace, home of the Assembly of the Republic, in Lisbon. Was it just the site of a constitutional coup with implications for Canada? You’d never know from the local media. Below: Portuguese President Aníbal Cavaco Silva; Portugal’s national flag. Did you know a coalition of the
Continue readingParchment in the Fire: Eurozone crosses Rubicon as Portugal’s anti-euro Left banned from power – Telegraph
Constitutional crisis looms after anti-austerity Left is denied parliamentary prerogative to form a majority government Source: Eurozone crosses Rubicon as Portugal’s anti-euro Left banned from power – Telegraph Filed under: Eurozone crisis Tagged: Austerity, Eurozone Crisis, Portugal, the Left
Continue readingParchment in the Fire: Passos Coelho asked to form minority government in Portugal – FT.com
Pedro Passos Coelho, the centre-right prime minister who lost his parliamentary majority in Portugal’s inconclusive general election three weeks ago, has been appointed to form what could be a shortlived minority government. President Aníbal Cavaco Source: Passos Coelho asked to form minority government in Portugal – FT.com Filed under: Europe,
Continue readingParchment in the Fire: Is Portugal a poster child for austerity?
Source: Is Portugal a poster child for austerity? Filed under: Austerity Tagged: Austerity, Eurozone Crisis, Portugal
Continue readingParchment in the Fire: Portugal’s austerity government wins – POLITICO
The center-right coalition, whose reform zeal won Berlin’s admiration, looks short of an outright majority. Source: Portugal’s austerity government wins – POLITICO Filed under: Eurozone crisis Tagged: Austerity, elections, Europe, Eurozone Crisis, Portugal
Continue readingParchment in the Fire: 9 faces to watch in Portugal’s election – POLITICO
An interesting array of candidates for prime minister. Source: 9 faces to watch in Portugal’s election – POLITICO Filed under: Austerity, Europe, Eurozone crisis Tagged: Austerity, Eurozone Crisis, Portugal
Continue readingParchment in the Fire: In Portugal, the Left is caught between two extremes
By Hugo Coelho for the New Statesman – Antonia Costa’s socialists face an unpalatable choice: grand coalition with the right, or cohabitation with die-hard communists on the left. Source: In Portugal, the Left is caught between two extremes Filed under: Austerity, Europe, Eurozone crisis Tagged: Austerity, Eurozone Crisis, Portugal, Portuguese
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Merkel’s Toxic Tonic
Has German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s subjugation of Greece inadvertently poisoned European unity? That’s how a pro-EU lobby group sees it. “The last few weeks have laid totally bare the European Union’s brand of authoritarian dogma,” UKIP leader Nigel Farage wrote in the London Telegraph. “More and more people are waking
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