From International Viewpoint an article by Costas Lapavitsas which is a reply to Michel Husson’s article, A European strategy for the left published by International Viewpoint in January 2011. In the article Husson argued that “the radical left must not get locked into the impossible choice and start the risky adventure of leaving the euro [...]

Kevin Doogan in his excellent book, New Capitalism? correctly points out that employment is the achilles heel of right-wing economic analysis.
You can’t model jobs - either they are there or they are not.
If you follow work, and keep focused on the jobs, then more realistic appraisals of the actual dynamics of the economy start to [...]

Statement from Repudiate the Debt Campaign.

The much-heralded “renegotiation” of the terms of the imposed EU-IMF “Programme for Ireland” proved to be nothing more than a damp squib.
The hurt being felt among our people is growing, as more and more people are being stretched to the limit and beyond.
As recent surveys show, our people cannot afford [...]

It’s strange how certain things stick in your mind. I remember very well reading the newspapers while on a weekend away in early October last year. It was during that bizarre time in the lead-up to the IMF/EU/ECB fiscal kidnapping and just after Olli Rehn had announced that Ireland was a low tax economy, and [...]

TASC did something quite unusual, even revolutionary: they looked up the facts. With all the unsubstantiated claims about labour costs, ‘Myths of the Irish Crisis: Wages and Competitiveness‘ is truly fresh air in a stale debate.  Here I reproduce the data from Eurostat which TASC uses to show that Irish labour costs in low-paid sectors [...]

A basic income is an income universally and unconditionally granted by the state to all on an individual basis, without means test or work requirement. It is a form of minimum income guarantee, also known as a citizens’ income or social dividend. It differs from state payments that now exist in various European countries in [...]

The April edition of the Socialist Voice is out. You can view it in PDF here, or read it on the Website here.
The articles this month are:
* Stress tests needed for working people! [NL]
* Anglo-Irish Bank records historic losses [NL]
* A tale of two Europes [NC]
* Workers in struggle
* Workers’ rights under sustained attack [EMC]
* [...]

Invitation - Open to All
Debt and Austerity: From the Global South to Europe
Global Gathering: Athens, Greece 6th-8th May 2011
We would like to invite you to attend a ground-breaking global gathering in Athens, Greece at the beginning of May which will bring debt justice and social justice activists together from Europe and the Global South. As [...]