What was described by European Commission President as a “silent revolution” was passed in the European Parliament on Wednesday with hardly a mention in the mainstream media. The implications of the so-called six-pack of economic governance measures are vast. This package represents a qualitative leap forward in terms of the institutionalisation of austerity and neo-liberal [...]

Press release from GUE/NGL members in the European Parliament about today’s vote which brings in the austerity-ramping 6 pack provisions for increased economic governance at EU level.
Following today’s European Parliament vote on the economic governance package, GUE/NGL MEPs regretted the passing of new provisions as an “attack on democracy” that will remove core elements of [...]

L’Humanite interview with Monique Pinçon-Charlot: “the rich have a money addiction that must be treated”
For sociologist Monique Pinçon-Charlot, the campaign against public deficits is an ideological weapon being used by neoliberals to do away with social rights all over the world.
Among the budgetary proposals to be discussed by the French government is a move [...]

One of the many things that we hear repeated ad nauseam in the context of the present rioting in London is that the rioters are ‘feral’, ‘yobs’, ‘thugs’ or more generously ‘disaffected youth’. All the talk from Cameron and his cohorts is of crime and punishment and ‘the full force of the law‘ - as [...]

The following is an extract from the book The Crises of Multiculturalism: Racism in a Neoliberal Age, by Gavan Titley and Alana Lentin, which was published by Zed Books on July 10th. The preface was written by the Guardian and The Nation journalist Gary Younge and is available on The Nation website. There is also [...]

The current economic crisis in Ireland has highlighted many of the problems in Irish society that perhaps we all knew were there to a greater or lesser degree. For me the one interesting aspect of the past three years has come in our media. It has been discussed elsewhere (see Gavan Titley’s piece in [...]

If one were to identify successful revolutionaries in crisis-ridden Europe, the European Commission would be a strong candidate. And it’s not social justice and democracy they have at heart, writes Kenneth Haar of Corporate Europe Observatory. This article was originally commissioned for May Day International.
“What is going on is a silent revolution - a silent [...]

In the first part of this piece, we looked at how political and economic neo-liberalism became embedded in the UN’s approach to peace-building. In this part we will examine some of the primary characteristics of this ‘neo-imperial’ form of Peace-building.

Formal Sovereignty
As the law professor Anthony Anghie argues,
Many imperial projects sought to create what might [...]

With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, a new form of
“international peace operation emerged as the dominant security activity of the United Nations: missions aimed at helping war-torn countries make the transition from a fragile ceasefire to a stable peace, or what became known as “post-conflict peacebuilding.”[i] [...]

On January 10th this year Near FM’s Under the Sun program broadcast an interview with Peter Hallward, the author of Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide, and the Politics of Containment to coincide with the first anniversary of the devastating earthquake which is estimated to have affected three million people, killing 316,000 and leaving 300,000 injured [...]