Posts Tagged: austerity

Austerity ruined Europe, and now it’s back

Opinion

21.07.2023

Europe is responding to the US investment boom with a return to the austerity policies that caused it to fall behind the US in the first place

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The existential threat facing humanity, and how we can fight back

22.09.2020

It is no exaggeration to say that the fate of the human experiment depends on the outcome of this struggle between two internationals.

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Something remarkable just happened this August: How the pandemic has sped up the passage to postcapitalism

25.08.2020

In the post-2008 world, speculators don’t actually give a damn about the economy. COVID-19 found capitalism in this zombified state.

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The Eurozone’s grappling with crisis, class war & the North-South divide

17.07.2020

The working class' prospects are declining while financiers and large companies enjoy socialism for the oligarchy and austerity for the majority.

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Police force hospital staff to take off their white coats at anti-austerity protest

18.06.2020

In France, protests were held by hospital staff who called citizens who had been applauding them from their balconies to support their demands.

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French organisations support healthcare staff in calling for a demonstration on 16 June

18.06.2020

The World After Coronavirus can only be built when we rally behind an alternative to capitalism.

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Have Merkel & Macron just announced a eurobond-funded godsend for the EU?

19.05.2020

Merkel and Macron's joint proposal for a 500 billion euro common fund will not lessen the upcoming austerity wave.

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The toxic impact of the Eurogroup agreement of 9th April 2020

13.04.2020

On April 9th 2020, the Eurogroup missed the greatest and perhaps last opportunity we had in the Eurozone to have Eurobonds.

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#Euroleaks: the twin tragedies of austerity and the refugee crisis

18.03.2020

There is a deep connection between the tragedy of the rejection of migrants, the enforcement of austerity, and the memorandum that 62% of the ...

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