Wednesday, 25 January 2012

New Labour's moral capitalism!

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In a speech on 19 January 2012, the Labour Party leader Ed Miliband demanded a moral capitalism with a special emphasis on the protection of...
Friday, 13 January 2012

The Rise and Fall of the Welfare State - new book by Asbjørn Wahl!

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In the highly important book The Rise and Fall of the Welfare State (Pluto Press, 2011) Asbjørn Wahl reveals the underlying structural dyn...
Tuesday, 10 January 2012

Samir Amin at Nottingham University: video interview!

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Samir Amin, the internationally renown political economist and one of the leading thinkers of the past half century, spent time at Nottingha...
Thursday, 22 December 2011

November 30 – what next?

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Between 2 to 3 million workers went on strike on November 30 in the UK's biggest strike for several decades over the imposition of chang...
Tuesday, 22 November 2011

The imposition of austerity and the move to authoritarian government - Part I

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While bankers have caused the global financial crisis, it is now working people who are asked to pay for the bill. Austerity programme after...
Tuesday, 11 October 2011

Europe Against Austerity

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On Saturday, 1 October 2011, I attended the conference Europe Against Austerity in London. The conference was hosted by the British Coaliti...
Tuesday, 13 September 2011

An Autumn of Discontent?

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Considering the full-scale attack on the public sector in the UK, including measures such as cuts to welfare benefits, imposed changes to pu...