Wednesday, 27 May 2026

Critical Political Economy of the European Polycrisis

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Over the last two decades, the European Union (EU) has faced a series of intertwined crises, including the Global Financial Crisis in 2008 a...
Saturday, 18 April 2026

Social and Environmental Upgrading through Global Value Chains? A review of the book by Selwyn and Bernhold.

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In Capitalist Value Chains: Labour Exploitation, Nature Destruction, Geopolitics (Oxford University Press, 2025), Benjamin Selwyn and Chri...
Friday, 20 February 2026

Dissecting the Polycrisis, Charting the Conceptual Terrain of Enquiry

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Polycrisis has become a widely used concept. Politicians, public intellectuals and academics alike are drawing on it when describing our cur...
Monday, 1 December 2025

Epochal Crisis: The Exhaustion of Global Capitalism: Review of William I. Robinson’s latest book.

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In his latest book Epochal Crisis: The Exhaustion of Global Capitalism (CUP, 2025), William I. Robinson provides a masterful analysis of th...
Friday, 28 November 2025

EU Court Upholds Minimum Wage Directive in Victory for Social Europe

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‘The Court of Justice of the European Union has delivered a landmark verdict on the EU Minimum Wage Directive that I would characterise as “...
Wednesday, 22 October 2025

The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads: Review of Kevin B. Anderson’s latest book.

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In his recent book The Late Marx’s Revo-lutionary Roads (Verso, 2025), Kevin B. Anderson reveals Marx as a flexible, inquisitive thinker, w...
Sunday, 21 September 2025

On the storm to come: Right-wing extremism moving centre-stage in British politics.

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‘We Want Our Country Back’ – On Saturday, 6 September, the third Saturday in a row, English nationalists draped in union jack and St George ...