Despite increasing inequality and social
deprivation in Europe since the onset of the global financial crisis in 2007-8,
right-wing parties, such as the French Front National and the German
Alternative for Deutschland, have benefited the most in recent elections. Does
the electoral failure of the Left indicate that there is no progressive
resistance against austerity and neo-liberal restructuring in Europe? Not so
say the authors of Beyond Defeat and Austerity: Disrupting (the
Critical Political Economy of) Neoliberal Europe. In this blog
post Andreas Bieler and Adam David Morton provide a critical review of the book
and some pointers as to wider debates that it may inform.
Thursday 26 October 2017
Monday 16 October 2017
Modes of Production and Forms of Exploitation: Understanding Capitalism.
Thursday 5 October 2017
Corbyn and the winds of change – politics of the new centre ground
While
US President Trump has lent his ears to climate change deniers, huge storms of
unknown ferocity have caused widespread havoc in the Caribbean and parts of the
USA. In this guest post, Alan Simpson
calls for a new economic model that reconnects people to planet and weather to
climate. What is required, he argues, is a fundamental rethink of markets,
ecosystems, inclusion, security, interdependency and accountability.
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