Austerity protests draw tens of thousands in Italy, Portugal | News | DW.DE | 19.10.2013. Police detained several people during the protest in Rome after about 100 people threw rocks,…
In light of yesterday’s post, particularly regarding the bleak outlook for the children of the middle class (which takes for granted the bleak present of the children of the working…
Two noteworthy news items for this week: First, the Guardian ran an article last week regarding the soon to be published Social Mobility and Child Poverty report on, well, social…
http://www.brandeis.edu/now/2013/october/marcuse.html Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: Critical Theory, Marcuse
Rather than savage cuts, Switzerland considers “Star Trek” economics – Salon.com. By gathering over 100,000 signatures – which they delivered last Friday along with 8 million 5-cent coins representing the…
Austerity pushing Europe into social and economic decline, says Red Cross | World news | The Guardian. Europe is sinking into a protracted period of deepening poverty, mass unemployment, social…
The left in Greece must rise up against Golden Dawn | Costas Lapavitsas | Comment is free | theguardian.com. Greece – and the rise of Golden Dawn – is an…
Econ 101 is killing America – Salon.com. Salon.com In the Middle Ages, people looked to the Church for certainty. In today’s complex, market-based economies, they look to the field of…
Dispatches from the class struggle in County Durham: What the colliers’ dependence on the exploiters for their homes means in practice can be seen in any strike. For example, the…
“A Corporate Trojan Horse”: Obama Pushes Secretive TPP Trade Pact, Would Rewrite Swath of U.S. Laws | Democracy Now!. Crucial information on the secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership — Looks like a…
This is an extract from Cicero’s legal defense of Sestius, delivered in 56 BCE. Cicero is often considered to be the founding father of ‘republicanism’ but has influenced the likes…
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=10812 Costas Lapavitsas on why the state crackdown on Golden Dawn fails to address the basis of their popular support. Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: Extreme Right, Fascism, Greece
While this was written by Cicero in 44 BCE, after the assassination of Caesar and a year before Antony had Cicero murdered, the sentiment can be heard in today republicans–particularly…
Reblogged from Greek Left Review: by VASSILIS K. FOUSKAS 30 September 2013 Ten days after the murder of Pavlos Fyssas, the ND-PASOK pro-austerity government arrested most of the Golden Dawn…
Reblogged from thecurrentmoment: Originally published in the October issue of Le Monde Diplomatique Angela Merkel and her Christian Democrat party (CDU/CSU) have won a resounding victory in Germany’s general election.…
Reblogged from Poumista: The Daily Mail has been in the news for its attacks on Ralph Miliband as “the man who hated Britain“. This continues a long tradition of smearing…
Norway’s disturbing lurch to the right | Alf Gunvald Nilsen | Comment is free | theguardian.com. The results from today’s Norwegian elections are more or less clear: with some 26.8%…
Our favourite Miliband | Red Pepper. Our favourite Miliband Hilary Wainwright reveals which Miliband caught her fancy August 2010 I’d better come clean. For some time now I’ve been a…
Reblogged from Greek Left Review: With the arrest of several party leaders the Greek government has begun a crackdown on the far-right Golden Dawn in the wake of the murder…
http://www.gallup.com/poll/164648/tea-party-support-dwindles-near-record-low.aspx Filed under: conservatism Tagged: Conservatism, far-right, US Politics
