Spain’s Marches of Dignity 22M, 2014: Not Anti-Politics
Originally posted on Contentious Politics in an Age of Austerity: On the 22nd of March, thousands of people will arrive in Madrid from all over Spain in six columns that…
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An Angry Person’s Guide to Finance – a free Red Pepper pamphlet | Red Pepper
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Low-Wage Workers Are Finding Poverty Harder to Escape – NYTimes.com
Low-Wage Workers Are Finding Poverty Harder to Escape – NYTimes.com. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — At 7 in the morning, they are already lined up — poultry plant workers, housekeepers, discount store…
Britain’s five richest families worth more than poorest 20% | Business | The Guardian
Britain’s five richest families worth more than poorest 20% | Business | The Guardian. The scale of Britain’s growing inequality is revealed by a report from a leading charity showing…
The truth is out: money is just an IOU, and the banks are rolling in it | David Graeber | Comment is free | theguardian.com
The truth is out: money is just an IOU, and the banks are rolling in it | David Graeber | Comment is free | theguardian.com. Back in the 1930s, Henry…
Spain’s poor affected the most among OECD nations in financial downturn | World news | theguardian.com
Spain’s poor affected the most among OECD nations in financial downturn | World news | theguardian.com. Spain‘s poorest have been hit harder than any other group in any OECD country…
New Left Project | Articles | Underestimating Capital, Overestimating Labour: A Response to Andrew Kliman
New Left Project | Articles | Underestimating Capital, Overestimating Labour: A Response to Andrew Kliman. What caused the 2008 economic crisis? In an article published earlier this year by Jacobin,…
IMF Urges Redistribution To Tackle Growing Inequality
As usual, on the rare occasion that the IMF actually understands the destructive nature of austerity policies, it is too little too late. IMF Urges Redistribution To Tackle Growing Inequality.…
Capital courts: how corporations can hold governments to ransom | Red Pepper
Capital courts: how corporations can hold governments to ransom Transnational corporations have won shocking powers to sue sovereign states, writes John Hilary, and they are not shy of using them…
Inequality ‘costs Britain £39bn a year’ | Life | The Guardian
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The Disastrous Labor And Social Reforms In Spain
The Disastrous Labor And Social Reforms In Spain. By Vincente Navarro Spain, under pressure from the Troika (International Monetary Fund, European Commission and European Central Bank) has gone through three…
Radical Democracy and Collective Movements in Greece, Spain | Euro Crisis in the Press
Radical Democracy and Collective Movements in Greece, Spain | Euro Crisis in the Press. By Marina Prentoulis and Lasse Thomassen The 2011 movements of the squares, the ‘aganaktismenoi’ and ‘indignados’…
How corporations and lawyers are scavenging profits from Europe’s crisis countries
7 March 2014 Cecilia Olivet Profiting from Crisis is a story about how corporations, backed by lawyers, are using international investment agreements to scavenge for profits by suing governments from…
The Crises of Capitalism
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Capitalism is the Crisis
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Fast Facts: Gender Social Inequality and Austerity in Europe
Originally posted on Revolting Europe: Europe’s austerity fetish and longer term neo-liberal reforms promoted by Big Business, Governments and the EU Commission hurt women disproportionately. Here’s a few facts to…
Creating radically democratic solutions to the financial abduction of Europe | openDemocracy
Creating radically democratic solutions to the financial abduction of Europe | openDemocracy. LOTTA TENHUNEN and ADRIÀ RODRIGUEZ 6 March 2014 Last weekend we participated in the European meeting and seminar…
Christine Lagarde angers Spain with repeat prescription of austerity
Christine Lagarde angers Spain with repeat prescription of austerity – http://feeds.theguardian.com/c/34708/f/663828/s/37bc8c9c/sc/7/l/0L0Stheguardian0N0Cworld0C20A140Cmar0C0A30Cchristine0Elagarde0Espain0Eausterity0Eimf0Emadrid/story01.htm – sent from the Guardian Anywhere app Filed under: Uncategorized
The Economics Of Social Democracy – Social Europe Journal
The Economics Of Social Democracy – Social Europe Journal. By John Weeks In a recent article in the Social Europe Journal Shayn McCallum develops in some detail his interpretation of…
Italy’s industrial meltdown – what is to be done?
Originally posted on Revolting Europe: As the crisis at white goods maker Electrolux heralds another round of plant closures in the Eurozone’s second largest manufacturing nation, economist Guido Viale argues…