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The European Union is brutal and undemocratic — ignoring that just gives the Right more power
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Rasmus: Brexit—Cameron’s Faustian Bargain
The Brexit vote will prove merely a tactic for UK elites to try to extract concessions from their EU capitalist competition
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Corbyn: Why I Am Voting for Britain to “Remain” in European Union in Historic Brexit Vote
There is a wonderful rebirth of radical politics on both sides of the Atlantic. It’s our demands, our pressure, our activity which will change things
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Weisbrot: ‘Brexit’ might be the wake-up call Europe needs
European authorities are likely to continue hacking away at Europe's social and economic achievements, and to try to make mass unemployment the new normal
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They denounce the transfer of public money from the rich to the poor. They are intensely relaxed about the transfer of public money from the poor to the rich
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Rooksby: There Is No Left Exit
We shouldn’t have illusions about transforming the EU from below. But a Leave vote would only strengthen the Right
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Renton: The Socialist Case for Remain
It’s not clear that a Leave vote would make our our tasks on the Left any easier
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Nichols: Spanish general election: United We Can knocking at the door
In this war of old corruption and privilege against hope for change, the powers-that-be and their media are pulling out every last stop to block United We Can's advance
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Baird: EU referendum – fear is the right thing to feel
I’m not afraid to be afraid on this issue. Not afraid to be afraid of the power of populist, ‘patriotic’ movements with an inchoate catch-all appeal to anyone with a complaint
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Bricmont: The European Dead End
The moment European people balk at the policies being imposed on them, they are ignored and accused of being populists and racists
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Savio: Not Politically Correct Reflections on Brexit
Allow me a rare personal anecdote. In 1965 I met...
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Lambert: French President Threatens to Outlaw Protests Against Labor Reforms
There are plenty of things happening on the political front. But this struggle against the law now is mainly led by trade unions
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Domoney: Clashes at general strike in Paris
Heavy clashes occur between protesters and police as hundreds of thousands take to the streets to oppose a proposed change in France’s labor law
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Only a deeper look at the problem and a serious international effort to address questions of poverty and war can provide the path out of the current madness
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Crespo: When France moves, all of Europe shakes
In order to change the world, we need friends in many countries
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The European Union looks thoroughly rotten – until you compare it to the alternatives
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Nichols: Spain: Can the Left’s economic plan turn back austerity?
The left-wing coalition Unidos Podemos (United We Can), is currently polling over 25% and looks set to surpass the vote of the social-democratic Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE)
ZMag Europe
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Coleman-Adebayo: “Negroes Need Not Apply:” The EU-Africa Malta Conference
Theresa May, the British Home Secretary, offers the solution of pouring “hundreds of millions in additional aid into Africa to try to discourage hundreds of thousands of people from heading to the EU.”
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Musto: The Threatening Advancement of the Far Right in Europe
We should mention that neo-Nazi organizations have spread in some parts of Europe. The biggest of them is Golden Dawn, which has become the third political force in Greece.
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Glazebrook: Refugees Don’t Cause Fascism, Timmermans, You Do
Frans Timmermans, Vice-President of the European Commission, following recent negotiations over the so-called refugee crisis, remarked to reporters: “We have to patrol our borders better.
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Posey: Mainstreaming Domestic Terrorism
In April 2009, a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) report leaked to the public entitled “Right Wing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment,” was released within months of President Obama’s inauguration, sketching the broad strokes of a nascent white nationalist backlash
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Rasmus: The Greek Debt Interim Agreement
Greece and Syriza have not sold out. To declare such is premature at best and counterproductive politically at worst. Yes, Greece blinked at the February 28 deadline. If it hadn’t what would have been the consequences?
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Johnstone: Ukraine and Yugoslavia
Up to now, I have remained speechless in the face of what appears to me to be utter madness.
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Herman: Srebrenica: The Star Witness
Book by Germinal Civikov, translated from the German by John...
Europe Video
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Cohen: Why Is The Western Media Ignoring The New Cold War?
Interview on Russia, NATO, and our mainstream media's refusal to report on the New Cold War
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Varoufakis: Privatization, Human Rights & Capitalism
Interview on privatization, human rights, media, experience with the EU and capitalism’s ability to reform
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Varoufakis: Massive IMF Bailouts are “Ponzi Austerity” Scheme
Negotiations between Greece and international creditors hit an impasse over the bankers’ demands for extra austerity measures
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Varoufakis: Europe’s “Hot Spot” Refugee Registration Centers are “Concentration Camps”
Interview on the refugee crisis in Europe, and so-called hot spots that are registration centers for refugees in his country
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Chomsky: German Weapons Exports to Israel & Saudi Arabia and the Refugee Crisis
Interview on the impacts of arms and weapons exports into Saudi Arabia and the refugee and Syrian crisis that is engulfing neighboring states as well as the European continent
Europe Audio
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Rasmus: Oil Deflation, Russia’s Recession, and Ukraine Depression
Reviewing the continuing collapse of global oil prices and its effect on the emerging recession in Russia, continuing economic stagnation in Europe, and the deepening Depression in the Ukraine economy
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Rasmus: Europe’s Continuing Epic Recession
A talk on how Europe’s ‘stop-go’ recovery and its version of an ‘Epic recession’ (i.e. short, shallow recoveries followed by economic relapses and double dip recessions) is proving worse than the USA’s experience with ‘stop-go’ recovery since 2009
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Barrett: March for the Alternative – Peoples Assemblies
Mark Barrett shares his assessment of the massive anti-cuts “March...
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Davies: March for the Alternative – UK Uncut
Liam Davies shares his assessment of the massive anti-cuts “March...
Europe Blogs
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Bohmer: Thomas Herndon’s Dismantling of Study Justifying Austerity
April 20, 2013 Thomas Herndon studied economics and political...
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Wilson: Bread Crumbs for the World: The Failure of Hunger and Church Groups to Support Farm Justice
“A little child shall lead them.” Isaiah 11:6d “In truth...
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Wilson: Commodity Crops Vs. Vegetables? Data Slides Fix the Myth
(Authors note, 8/12/14: This blog introduced a new “Photo album”...
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Greeman: Scrooge Accepts Nobel Peace Prize
Brussels, Chrismas Eve, 2012. (From our Special Correspondant). Reactions...
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: England v Serbia Racism & European football
At a recent under 21 football match between Serbia and...
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Greeman: The horrors of socialized medicine in France
I have reached a hoary age where more and more...
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Wilson: Slides: The Dairy Crisis and the Farm Bill
The US (and beyond) dairy crisis is an enormous tragedy...
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Hahnel: Some Quick Thoughts on Recent Greek Tragedies
The Greek economy and society have been unraveling for well...