Larry Elliot: Greece’s bailout is finally at an end – but has been a failure
While European mainstream media has been euphoric concerning Greece´s exit from the beialout programme it was subjected to. The results are catastrophic: -500k people, mostly young, emigrated –...
View ArticleLooking to the North
by Steffen Stierle Steffen Stierle is one of the coordinators of the European Lexit network as well as active in Attac Germany and the Eurexit initiative. He works as a freelance journalist in Berlin....
View ArticleCorporate Europe Observatory – Selmayrgate: Or why the Secretary-General job...
Cross-posted from Corporate Europe Observatory. As its authority in Brussels is being threatened, Germany is consolidating its control over the EU. Three of the EU´s four leading civil servants are now...
View ArticleJeremy Corbyn’s Labour vs. the Single Market
by Costas Lapavitsas If the next Labour government is to be truly transformative, it has to free itself from the constraints of the single market. n recent weeks there has been intense debate in...
View ArticleAufstehen! (Stand Up!) – a new left movement emerging in Germany?
In February 2018 Oskar Lafontaine wrote: “Do we need a movement of the political left accumulating broader forces (Sammlungsbewegung)? Yes, if we want social cuts to be halted, wages and pensions to...
View ArticleThe Full Brexit
The Full Brexit – For Popular Sovereignty, Democracy and Economic Renewal, is the title of a new appeall, which we document here. Founding Statement Brexit offers a historic opportunity for democratic...
View ArticleWhat went Wrong in Italy and What It should Fight for in Europe
By Sergio Cesaratto & Gennaro Zezza In this paper we briefly review the evolution of the Italian economy in the post-war period, discussing the shift from a first period when fiscal policy was...
View ArticleExit Stage Left? What Scope for Progressive Politics Against the EU?
“The EU is not a nation state over whose mechanics the Left could give battle… It is a transnational juggernaut geared to neoliberal and hierarchical motion.”This claim, made near the end of Costas...
View ArticleManifesto for Constitutional Sovereignty
The longest and gravest cycle of crises in the history of capitalism after that of 1929 has brought the popular classes and large swathes of the middle classes of mature economies to their knees. A...
View ArticleThe Folly of “Remain and Reform”: Why the EU is Impervious to Change
by Lee Jones Remainers offering a sop to Leavers have admitted the EU’s imperfections but argued Britain can reform the EU from within. This claim is nonsense. The EU’s constitutional structures...
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