Parchment in the Fire

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The populist answer to Italy’s woes? Bring back the technocrats https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/03/populist-answer-to-italian-woes-more-teechnocrats?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_WordPress

Unemployment at the Heart of Italy’s Economic Crisis — Read on therealnews.com/stories/unemployment-at-the-heart-of-italys-economic-crisis

50 years after France’s legendary May 1968, which almost toppled the government, unions and students are again mobilizing against the government. However, while the establishment celebrates May ’68, its criticizes today’s protest movement, says Le Monde Diplomatique’s Renaud Lambert — Read on therealnews.com/t2/story:21695:French-Unions-&-Students-Mobilize-Against-Reforms:-Another-May-’68

Yanis Varoufakis: Marx predicted our present crisis – and points the way out https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/apr/20/yanis-varoufakis-marx-crisis-communist-manifesto?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_WordPress

http://therealnews.com/t2/story:21529:French-Austerity-Program-Provokes-Growing-Wave-of-Worker-and-Student-Strikes

A panel of progressive parties of Europe discuss the UK’s plan for Brexit, with reps from the UK’s Labour Party, Spain’s Podemos, Greece’s Syriza and Germany’s Dei Linke — Read on therealnews.com/t2/story:21397:European-Left-Divided-Over-Brexit

Italy’s election on Sunday didn’t produce a clear winner, making the task of negotiating a coalition government particularly challenging. Raffaele Laudani, professor at the University of Bologna, discusses possible outcomes — Read on therealnews.com/t2/story:21283:Italian-Government-in-Chaos-as-Far-Right-Parties-Surge

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2018/02/20/what-happened-to-europes-left/

Here is a link to my latest article on the structural transformation of labour relations in Greece. Source: From Competitive Corporatism to Embedded Austerity: Neoliberalism and Structural Reform in Greece during the Eurozone Crisis

2017 and the curious demise of Europe’s centre-left https://www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-interactive/2017/dec/29/2017-and-the-curious-demise-of-europes-centre-left?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_WordPress

http://therealnews.com/t2/story:11858:Piketty:-The-Market-and-Private-Property-Should-Be-The-Slaves-of-Democracy

http://therealnews.com/t2/story:20532:After-Collapse-of-Coalition-Talks,-What’s-Next-for-Germany

http://therealnews.com/t2/story:20395:Can-Syriza%27s-Use-of-%27Soft-Power%27-Be-Reconciled-with-the-Values-of-the-Radical-Left%3F

Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason review – a devastating indictment of how we live today https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/nov/01/marx-capital-and-the-madness-of-economic-reason-review?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_WordPress

http://therealnews.com/t2/story:20280:IMF-Worried-that-High-Inequality-Could-Threaten-Global-Capitalism

http://therealnews.com/t2/story:20150:Macron-Leans-Further-Right-as-His-Popularity-Tanks

http://therealnews.com/t2/story:20062:Far-Right-Enters-Germany%27s-Parliament-for-First-Time-in-60-Years

http://therealnews.com/t2/story:20003:Spain%27s-Economy-is-Growing%2C-but-Leaving-Most-Spaniards-Behind