Posts Tagged: COVID-19

We need resilient cities to face health and ecological crises

22.04.2020

Building cities that are durable, habitable and resilient is essential to ensure that we can cope with health and ecological crises.

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European PPE shortages betray lack of solidarity with workers

21.04.2020

PPE shortages endanger the lives of healthcare professionals, limit the availability of staff, and impact mental well-being.

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Disintegration of the Eurozone has begun. Austerity will be worse than in 2011

17.04.2020

As the European economy begins to emerge from the coronavirus recession, we will be hit by a secondary recessionary wave imposed by Brussels and ...

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Capitalists are sacrificing us on the altar of profit

14.04.2020

Capitalists are sacrificing us on the altar of profit. But it is well within the power of workers to remake the world. 

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Berlin Diaries: “Welcome to the new reality”

14.04.2020

On Easter sunday, Berlin is lively with good weather and ice-cream. In the meantime, ever-more absurd politics play out during the crisis.

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Uberised workers are on the frontline of the crisis

13.04.2020

'Essential' uberised workers on the frontline are tracked by employers, and exploited for miserable incomes without any social protection.

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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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Selective solidarity in Brussels

7.04.2020

We cannot have 'selective solidarity' if we want to avoid the next humanitarian crisis.

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Taboos are being broken during the COVID-19 crisis

6.04.2020

"What is more important - profit or survival?". At least in Europe, for now, the answer falls in favour of survival.

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