“Going into Europe” – an essay by E. P. Thompson
The essay “Going into Europe”, written by the Marxist historian E. P. Thompson, was first printed in the Sunday Times on 27 April 1975 – the pre-Murdoch era, for anyone wondering. It was published...
View ArticleThe Failure of the Eurozone and the Role of German Policies
by Costas Lapavitsas, Theodore Mariolis and Constantinos Gavrielidis This analysis was published in Il Ponte, LXXIII, n. 5-6, p. 105-33. Introduction: Ιn early 2010 the European Economic and Monetary...
View ArticleOn the Use and Abuse of the Concept of “Ordoliberalism”
by Herman Michiel With this contribution Herman Michiel answers to Andy Storeys “The Myth of Ordoliberalism“, which was recently published in this blog. It was a good idea of Andy Storey to circulate...
View ArticleEuro’s Fatal Flaw
The following text on the Euro and the concept of money is a transcription of the conference given by Jorge Amar at the Attac Summer University for Social Movements held in Toulouse in August 2017....
View ArticleNorwegian Elections: Another Right-Wing Victory – And a Serious Labour Defeat
By Asbjørn Wahl, Norwegian trade union and political activist The centre-left failed in getting rid of the so-called blue-blue government at the parliamentary elections in Norway on 11 September. The...
View ArticleCall for Plan B in Lisbon: For a Europe of Cooperation and Solidarity
Following Paris, Madrid, Copenhagen and Rome, the 5th Plan B summit will take place on the 21st and 22nd of October 2017 in Lisbon, claiming back democracy for the peoples of Europe and asserting...
View ArticleThe “Asian Dimension” to Brexit: the Danger of a “Race to the Bottom”
by Charles Woolfson One of Britain’s most celebrated entrepreneurs and an avid supporter of Brexit in the business community, the inventor Sir James Dyson, has argued that World Trade Organization...
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Against Supranationalism: In Defence of National Sovereignty (and Brexit)
by Bill Mitchell and Thomas Fazi Let’s face it: national sovereignty has become irrelevant in today’s increasingly complex and interdependent international economy. The deepening of economic...
View ArticleThe European Central Bank isn´t Going to Save Us
by Andy Storey Can the European Central Bank (ECB) act as an honest broker in the tracker-mortgage scandal? Fianna Fáil has suggested that it step in to oversee the response of the Irish banks and...
View ArticleOur Europe: For and By the People!
The last Plan B conference took place in late October in Lisbon. Here we document the final declaration. Ten years have passed since the adoption of the Lisbon Treaty by the European oligarchy. The...
View ArticleThe Reforms that Europe doesn´t Need
by Thomas Fazi The prospects for a progressive reform of the eurozone appear more unlikely than ever. The reforms currently on the table, in fact, are likely to make the situation even worse. This is...
View ArticleIt´s Hard to Argue that Irland Isn´t a Tax Haven
by Andy Storey The European Union has just decided that 17 countries are tax havens, including Bahrain, Namibia and Panama. The stated criteria were tax transparency (or the lack of it), fairness...
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The EU Debate in Norway: Left Positions and Recent Developments
This report is meant as a short introduction to the EU debate in Norway: its historical basis, contentious issues, as well as the positions of political parties and social groups, particularly those on...
View ArticleAnother Europe is Needed
by Ernesto Screpanti [*] Since the end of World War II, tribal rivalries and xenophobic sentiment in Europe have never been as strong as they are today. And this is but one of the European Union’s...
View ArticleA Proposal for the Transition to the National Currency
The European and international centers of the establishment, especially the domestic political and economic establishment, are engaged to brainwashing and terrorizing the Greek people, by presenting...
View ArticleThe EU cannot be democratised – here’s why
by Thomas Fazi and William Mitchell As the EU’s internal crisis increases with many citizens rebelling against what has become a neo-liberal project, European politicians are racing to strip national...
View ArticleThe European Left and Brexit
by Herman Michiel In a reaction to the Brexit speech of the British prime minister Theresa May (2 March), Gabi Zimmer, group leader of GUE/NGL in the European Parliament and member of Die Linke, made a...
View ArticleFounding declaration: Austria Self-determined
“Selbstbestimmtes Österreich” (SBÖ, Austria Self-determined) is a new political alliance in Austia. They define four basic lines for their approach on Austrian politics: Democratic, Social, Sovereign,...
View ArticleThe Catalan Issue
Published with the kind permission of The Bullet, Socialist Project Canada By Richard Fidler The Spanish state’s repression is now a major issue in Germany, where former Catalan president Carles...
View ArticlePublic Debt in the Eurozone: A Political Problem
by Thomas Fazi This text is an edited version of a speech given at the conference “How to deal with Public Debt? – Lessons Learned & Policies Ahead” organised on by the GUE/NGL at the European...
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