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Greece: life at the epicentre of the earthquake
March 2012
Alex Nunns

Frontline report from Athens on the human consequences of the austerity measures, how they are being resisted and why solidarity is needed to stop EU-wide attacks on democracy and human rights.

The EU's new austerity treaty - Interview with Lukas Oberndorfer
February 2012

Despite the strong and growing resistance in Greece and other European countries to the direction of EU policy responses to the...

Europeanism from below
February 2012
Paolo Gerbaudo

Paolo Gerbaudo reports on the Routes of Europe conference in Florence, arguing that the Italian left must embrace the participatory democracy of the indignados to achieve political purchase.

A different kind of Europe
February 2012
Trevor Evans

What would a progressive pan-European response to the Euro crisis look like? Professor Trevor Evans calls for a radical downsizing of the financial sector, debt audits, democratisation of the Commission and a full employment policy.

Putin and Europe on the same crisis page
March 2010
Boris Kagarlitsky

The
current wave of strikes across Europe are only a prelude to what will
come, as the ruling elite are not prepared to change their anti-crisis
policies that have merely supported the corporations that caused the
crisis.

Global governance priorities in an interdependent world - balancing the economic and the environmental crisis
March 2010
Susan George

The current crisis has exacerbated the effects of neoliberalism and hugely increased inequality, with money going from labour to capital.

 

The World Crisis and Beyond - Building a New Global Solidarity
February 2010

Neoliberal market capitalism has dragged the world into a crisis which threatens human civilisation. Climate destruction, resource wars, and the replacement of democracy by an oligarchy face us if we don't act now to reduce the burden we place on our planet and reorganise society on a more...

The World Crisis and Beyond - Building a New Global Solidarity
February 2010

This declaration is the outcome of an international conference on alternatives and transformation paths to overcome the regime of crisis-capitalism, that took place in Brussels in October 2009. Organised by The Transnational Institute, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation and World Forum for Alternatives...

Default in Europe
December 2009
Boris Kagarlitsky

The Euro zone crisis cannot be staved off. A building with the bad foundation cannot be durable.

This crisis will never end
December 2009
Boris Kagarlitsky

Even if Russia manages to extricate itself from the economic crisis, the social disruptions that it has caused are here to stay.

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