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It’s Austerity, Not Globalization, That Pulls European Workers to the Right
Both the Washington Post (1/22/17) and New York Times (1/22/17) had pieces about declining support for the left in France and the rise of a nationalist right in both Italy and France. Both pieces attributed the rise in support for the right to people losing from globalization, implying that this is some impersonal process that… Continue reading
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How the left can win By Jeremy Gilbert
Labour Party membership is at a record high. Momentum now has more than 15,000 paid up members. There’s no question that this is a significant political movement. But is it really, as many of its advocates claim, a ‘social movement’? Jeremy Corbyn has expressed desire for the Labour Party itself to ‘become a social movement’.… Continue reading
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Video: The European Revolt Against the Neoliberal EU (1/2)
Catarina Principe, co-editor of Europe in Revolt, says a left movement against austerity must pursue the restructuring of public debt, nationalization of key sectors, and public control of the banking system, but none of this can be done within the European Union (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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Britain Faces the Biggest Crisis of Democracy in its History By Nafeez Ahmed
Britain is now being run by an unelected leader presiding over a draconian surveillance-state, hell-bent on accelerating war on the poor and vulnerable, at home and abroad. And if that wasn’t bad enough, the official opposition to this regime is falling apart. Continue reading
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Video: French Labor Law, Brexit, and Greek Austerity: Class War Against European Workers
Economist Richard Wolff says the old European elite believed it could fix their broken capitalism on the backs of the masses and that has proved to be a fatal mistake Continue reading
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NO MORE AUSTERITY | NO TO RACISM | TORIES MUST GO
The People’s Assembly and Stand Up To Racism have called an emergency demonstration as the Tories face crisis following the referendum. Please do all you can to share, invite and be there! Continue reading
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The Tory chickens come home to roost By William Bowles
Ask yourself this: Why has immigration been made the pole around which, this entire referendum ‘debate’, has revolved? Why has the closet Nazi Nigel Farage of UKIP been given so much airtime? Could it be the masses, hammering at the doors of Fortress Europe after we, that is the US-EU-NATO axis of pure barbarism, destroyed… Continue reading
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The Real News Live-Streaming From Athens, Greece
Tune in to our site right now to watch an exclusive Greece livestream of a panel featuring TRNN regulars Leo Panitch and Syrian MP Costas Lapavitsas. This panel is part of three day conference in Athens, Greece called Democracy Uprising. Continue reading
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Syriza Betrays Greece’s No Vote: Why the Left Should Form a Popular Front Against the EU By Stavros Mavroudeas
The referendum’s victory with such huge margin was unexpected even for the NO supporters. In the short one-week campaign the Greek economic and political elites unleashed a blatant terror and misinformation campaign through their mass media purporting that a NO vote would destroy Greece and that EU’s terms should be unconditionally accepted. In this unconcealed… Continue reading
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What a Difference a Year Makes By S. Artesian
16 July 2015 — The Wolf Report: Nonconfidential analysis for the anti-investor What a Difference a Year Makes Mix and Match 2014 “This is not our Europe. This is only the Europe we want to change. In place of a Europe of fear of unemployment, disability, old-age and poverty; in the place of the current Europe Continue reading
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Greece: Sound and Fury Signifying Much By Paul Craig Roberts
The Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras has agreed to the One Percent’s looting of the Greek people of the advances in social welfare that the Greeks achieved in the post-World War II 20th century. Pensions and health care for the elderly are on the way out. The One Percent needs the money. Continue reading
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Greece: PM Tsipras Banishing Ministers Opposing Sellout to Creditors, Syriza Sharply Divided By Stephen Lendman
Make no mistake. What’s happening in Greece signifies what’s ongoing throughout Europe, America, Canada, and other countries, heading for getting much worse – ending social justice to enrich monied interests more than ever, and at the same time, destroy what remains of democratic rights. Financial tyranny rules! Continue reading
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Blaming the Victim: Greece is a Nation Under Occupation By Andrew Gavin Marshall
One cannot properly assess the political gymnastics being exercised within Greece’s ruling Syriza party without placing events in their proper context. It is inaccurate to mistake the actions and decisions of the Greek government with those taken by an independent, sovereign and democratic country. Greece is not a free and sovereign nation. Greece is an… Continue reading
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Greek Guilt and Syriza Perfidy By F. William Engdahl
At this sad and very dangerous juncture of the unfolding events surrounding Greece and the crushing demands of the Troika, it becomes clear that all this would never have come to pass had the Greek people not felt guilty over their country’s debt situation. As a consequence of their feeling guilty since the crisis began… Continue reading
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The Hard Way By S. Artesian
The Hellenic Parliament has voted to approve, and will presumably implement, the demands of the Troika accepted on July 12 by the prime minister, who now states he doesn’t support the agreement although he will implement it, and urges its approval. This comes five days after the prime minister promised “the bigger the ‘No’ vote… Continue reading
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Lessons From A Defeat In Europe By Martin Hart-Landsberg
The Troika are celebrating the end of negotiations with Greece, proclaiming that thanks to their tireless efforts the Eurozone remains whole. And why wouldn’t they celebrate. They have demonstrated their power to crush, at least for now, the Greek effort to end austerity and its associated devastating social consequences. Tragically, Syriza has not only surrendered,… Continue reading
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Greek parliament’s president: ‘No to ultimatums, No to the Memoranda of servitude’
The following speech was delivered early in the morning of July 11, 2015, by Zoe Konstantopoulou, president of the Greek parliament, on the question of the government’s proposal to the creditor institutions. She voted “present”, in effect an abstention. Translated by Nicholas Evangelos Levis for Analyze Greece. F Continue reading
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Majority of Syriza’s central committee members reject Brussel’s deal – Tsipras has lost control of the party
A statement by 109 out of the 201 members of Syriza CC rejects the Brussels deal which it describes as a coup and says it cannot be accepted by Syriza. Tsipras has lost control of the party. Below we bring the statement: Continue reading
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The Third Time Is the Charm By S. Artesian
So there are no new terms that are milder than in previous agreements, because there are no terms of any agreement. There are minimum requirements placed exclusively upon Greece before any negotiations regarding any possible agreement will even be entertained. Now all the PhDs in the world– the Leos, and Sams, and Hans, and Yannis–… Continue reading
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Greek Bailout Deal Highlights Monumental Scale Of Syriza’s Betrayal By Chris Marsden
What remains of the Greek economy, above all its most valuable assets, is to be pillaged so that Athens can continue to pay back loans from the EU, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 