Archive: Opinion

Accounting for ethics: the ‘ill’ logic of neoliberalism 

Opinion

6.10.2020

The failure of 'developed’ capitalist economies to safeguard citizens' wellbeing during a public health crisis reveals a need for moral accounting.

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Breaking point: How a Green New Deal for Europe will save us from disaster

Opinion

2.10.2020

We must stop viewing wildfires as a horrific spectacle, and centre these events in the rapidly unfolding disaster of climate breakdown.

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Next year in Jerusalem: The Serbian Embassy and Kosovo go on pilgrimage with Trump

Opinion

25.09.2020

For the general populations, the Kosovo-Serbia moratorium agreement offers a lose-lose with lasting negative international consequences.

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Is it really in the interest of Irish citizens to defend the Apple tax?

Opinion

14.09.2020

The wealth brought by multinationals has not benefited Irish citizens due to the staunch refusal to implement redistribution policies.

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Platform capitalism: How Big Tech monopolies are messing up the global economy

Opinion

11.09.2020

Platform companies are dependent on capital injections and their employees rarely benefit from their 'success'.

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Authoritarianism in Australia: right-wing politics in the antipodes

Opinion

28.08.2020

The emergence of COVID-19 has deflected attention from rising authoritarianism across a number of areas in Australia.

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Against “de-platforming” and other stunts

Opinion

20.08.2020

We cannot allow the stifling of criticism, so that a few media activists insist on describing the current protests in strictly cultural terms.

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What if the European common debt were an opportunity for workers to seize?

Opinion

22.06.2020

The European Union is a political space where the financial elites are winning by strangling the workers and populations of Europe through austerity.

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Berlin Diaries: “Protests, Concerns & Hopes”

Opinion

12.06.2020

The radical systemic changes that the BLM is fighting for require internationalism and persistence. We need to talk about neoliberal capitalism.

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