Why the Left Should Embrace Brexit
Remainers claim that Brexit will be an economic apocalypse. But it provides the opportunity for a radical break with neoliberalism – says a new article by Bill Mitchell and Thomas Fazi, recently...
View ArticleAusterity Polices in Europe: There is No Alternative
by Asbjørn Wahl Asbjørn Wahl advises the Norwegian municipal workers union, chairs The campaign for the welfare state and is the chair of the International Transport Workers Federation panel on climate...
View ArticleRe-Theorizing the Welfare State and the Political Economy of Neoliberalism’s...
by Thomas Palley IMK/FMM Working Paper. We thank the author for its kind permission to share its full contents. This paper argues neoliberalism is engaged in a war against the welfare state. At issue...
View ArticleReluctance to Spend is Down to Dublin’s Choices, not EU Rules
by Andy Storey. Originally published in the Dublin Inquirer. There is a seeming paradox at the heart of European economic governance, and it is one that has important implications for Ireland. On the...
View ArticleDefeat the Main Enemy
The National Council of the Italian Group MPL-Programma 101 launched a press release on the current development in government struggle in Rome. It includes some interesting information and...
View ArticleItaly’s Organic Crisis
Further on the Italian crisis, we reproduce an extract of this excellent piece authored by Thomas Fazi and published in the American Affairs Journal, together with the link to the whole article. “The...
View ArticleJeremy Corbin’s Labour vs. the Single Market
by Costas Lapavisas. This article has been published in Jacobinmag. “In recent weeks there has been intense debate in Britain about the Labour Party and the ongoing Brexit process. Advocates of the...
View ArticleGermany intervening again in Greek affairs!
By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos The German Government has called upon the political parties of Greece and of FYROM to support the Agreement for the resolution of the dispute on the name of FYROM which...
View ArticleBack to Basics! There is No Left Case for the European Union
By Kim Bryan (Revision of a speech to the Socialist Labour Party Congress, 28th October 2017) The announcement this week of the creation by Corbyn sympathisers of ‘Left Against Brexit’ is a salutary...
View ArticleSelling the Myth of Greek Recovery
by Sergio Cesaratto and Stravos Mavroudeas In a recent article published in Greek and Italian, Marco Revelli– a habitual guest in Greece of SYRIZA and its government – made a diatribe against what he...
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Macroeconomics and the Italian Vote
By Walter Paternesi Meloni and Antonella Stirati To understand the rise of the League and 5 Star Movement, look at economic indicators Italy’s 2018 elections results—with the success of the Five Star...
View ArticleLarry 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...
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