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Capitalist EU is fast coming apart at the seams
Far from isolated incidents, recent developments in Italy and Spain are symptoms of a pan-European crisis, writes KEVIN OVENDEN
BEN CHACKO speaks with Knesset member OFER CASSIF about rising political violence, the prospects for peace and his continuous ‘silencing by suspension’
The City is leaning on Rachel Reeves to cut welfare spending — when what’s needed is cuts to all the benefits given to the mega rich, corporations and banks to help them not pay or blatantly dodge their fair share of tax, explains BERNIE EVANS
The choice between two Blairites to revamp the tepid centrism of our ruling party doesn’t even come as cold comfort as we wander the city streets suffering from their third decade of austerity and the fifth of wage stagnation, writes MATT KERR
ANN HENDERSON looks at the trailblazers of the Women’s Trade Union League and their successful fight for female factory inspectors — a battle that echoes in today’s workplace campaigns
HENRY FOWLER puts the strike of public-sector workers in New Zealand in the wider context of deteriorating employment conditions throughout the world’s major economies
MAT COWARD looks back at a protest 105 years ago this month, whose reporting by the media bears uncomfortable similarities with demos today
IT’S like a game of Whack-a-Mole. No sooner had European leaders congratulated themselves on the formation of an Italian government, after a punishment beating earlier in the week, than the centre-right Spanish government of Mariano Rajoy faced collapse on Friday.
That’s the Rajoy whose repression of democracy in Catalonia earned plaudits in Brussels six months ago and was meant to herald a strengthened right-wing government in Spain.
The “end of the Italian political crisis” after three months without a government amounts only to the creation of a highly conflicted administration whose economic programme runs counter to the deflationary, austerity rules of the eurozone and EU.
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As heavy industry flees and public-sector strikes paralyse the nation, the French leader’s increasingly desperate attempts to rule without a majority reveal the deep crisis at the heart of European liberal democracy, writes KEVIN OVENDEN