Category: Europe

19 Nov

Comments Off on End times for democracy? How the 1% staged a coup & why worse is yet to come

End times for democracy? How the 1% staged a coup & why worse is yet to come

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‘Don’t forget who runs your economy now.’ For the 1 percent who rule society, democracy seems more than ever a hindrance to ensuring that the most calamitous economic crisis since the 1930s is paid for by the 99 percent below them. The most obvious expression of this is the installation of unelected technocrats as prime […]

Filed under: age of austerity, democracy, Egypt, Europe, fascism, Greece, Left strategy

10 Nov

Comments Off on A Left Flank dispatch from Europe: The ‘descent into chaos’ begins

A Left Flank dispatch from Europe: The ‘descent into chaos’ begins

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If the last week’s bizarre political contortions in Greece — first a referendum, then not, then a government of national unity, now more uncertainty — were not enough, the spread of contagion to Italy threatens even greater turmoil. As we arrived in London we were greeted by the Financial Times informing us that Silvio Berlusconi had (finally) […]

Filed under: age of austerity, Europe, UK