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29 Mar 2020 4 minute read

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Profiting from crisis

The UK’s coronavirus healthcare policy exposes the farce at the core of the privatization project, writes Ellen Lees...

6 Nov 2019 4 minute read

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Ken Loach: poverty doesn’t occur ‘by accident’

The socialist filmmaker explains how his anti-austerity politics translates to the big screen.

23 Nov 2018 4 minute read

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Will the UK listen to the UN’s damning indictment of austerity?

Steve Topple fears not. After all, we’ve been here before...

10 May 2018 7 minute read

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‘Privatization has failed repeatedly’

Dinyar Godrej interviews We Own It campaign founder Cat Hobbs on why the time is ripe for...

13 Dec 2016 9 minute read

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A closer look at Brazil’s economy

As new president Michal Temer tries to fix the economy through austerity, Kimberley Brown interviews...

1 Nov 2016 8 minute read

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Disabled people lead the fight against austerity

The resistance put up against the UK government's cuts by Disabled People Against the Cuts can teach us many lessons, writes...

19 Oct 2016 4 minute read

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Ken Loach on 'I, Daniel Blake': what happens when people leave the cinema?

The media present poverty as the fault of the poor, Ken Loach tells Malcolm Lewis in this...

23 Feb 2016 3 minute read

This article is more than seven years old.

Plan B for Europe

Nick Dearden offers a vision of a more democratic European Union.

1 Dec 2015 4 minute read

This article is more than seven years old.

Myth 1: Austerity will lead to 'jobs and growth'

It's wrong to sell austerity as a cure for economic woes, says Dinyar Godrej.

1 Jul 2015 4 minute read

This article is almost eight years old.

Why are Baltic States posing as anti-Greece?

Daiva Repečkaitė explains how Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia are clamouring to make themselves look good at the expense of...

1 May 2015 12 minute read

This article is almost eight years old.

The big bank boondoggle*

Big private banks have been resurrected by the crisis they caused, says David Ransom.

1 May 2015 7 minute read

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Getting away with murder

Susan George tells a story that's beyond belief.

3 Apr 2015 3 minute read

This article is almost eight years old.

Netherlands’ tax hypocrisy harms Greek economy

The Dutch are helping transnationals avoid paying tax in austerity-hit Greece, writes Beulah Devaney.

24 Mar 2015 5 minute read

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Tales from the resistance

Jamie Kelsey Fry reports on a gathering of voices from the frontline against austerity at the launch of...

4 Feb 2015 4 minute read

This article is more than eight years old.

Podemos: ‘We have to rescue the people, not the banks’

Tim Baster and Isabelle Merminod hear words to cheer at a rally of Spain’s mass-movement for...

29 Jan 2015 4 minute read

This article is more than eight years old.

Greece says no to austerity, and so should we...

Austerity is a morally and literally bankrupt ideology, reports Kerry-anne Mendoza.

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