The last year has seen the right and extreme right capitalise on the dissatisfaction and despair fostered by neoliberalism – and usher in a ‘post-neoliberal order’. Their success is based on championing and monopolising the idea of national sovereignty, but only of a certain kind. The left has accepted their discourse that national sovereignty goes hand in hand with exclusivist and right-wing ideas, rather than attempting to reclaim it as vehicle for change. Continue reading →

Europe does not, then, face a debt problem; it faces a Euro problem. Continue reading →

Italy’s latest budget bill confirms that Renzi was never serious about challenging austerity.  Continue reading →

Brexit – a way for the British Left to break free of the TINA (there is no alternative) narrative.  Continue reading →

Attacked and ridiculed, the leak of 243 pages of TTIP negotiations concerning climate, environment and public health prove that civil society organisations were right all along. Continue reading →

Why Varoufakis’ movement could be the last nail in the Left’s coffin. Continue reading →

How monetary policy in the EMU is leading to an increased centralisation of capital in the hands of core countries. Continue reading →