Infrastructure is not just about bricks and mortar. It is about systematic wealth extraction from local communities, whose territories are permanently reshaped in the name of capital accumulation.
A customs union would still allow the UK to negotiate new trade deals covering large chunks of the economy – so it’s time for far more focus on how such deals affect our rights, and what say we have over them.
Recently, the comedian posted a crude drawing of fascist leader Benito Mussolini and his mistress, Clara Petacci – disfigured and hung upside down as they were in their deaths.
Why, at its March 7 meeting, did the European Central Bank tinker with the mounting risk of a damaging eurozone recession – has it reached both its political and technical limits?
Monitoring the evolution of the openness of civic space is one of the global challenges CIVICUS is monitoring. Some of their findings are particularly worrying.
In Pakistan, IMF and World Bank policies have weakened the economy and promoted the interests of the elite. We need new global institutions that are democratically accountable.
The vision of a fascist Europe proved to be a chimera. Today’s watchers of the radical right must hope that things will be no different when the heirs of ‘classic fascism’ meet in Milan next week.
The Green New Deal presents an opportunity to practice the kind of intersectional policy making that has been at the heart of racial justice movements for decades.
It’s time for progressives on both sides of the Atlantic to reclaim arguments about freedom from the right. And they’ve got a long tradition to draw on.
