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‘There follows the summary of a talk given at the European Parliament in Brussels by Eric Toussaint on 14 January 2016 on the occasion of the international meeting organized by the left-wing European Parliamentary Group GUE/NGL (European United Left/Nordic Green Left). The theme was “The ECB, Europe’s unelected government”’ Read more: Greece Falls Prey to ECB […]

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‘Public sector debt, that is the national debt that is declared as debt on the books of UKplc stands at around £1.6 trillion or 81% of GDP (all goods and services produced by the nation in one year). It is double today under George Osborne than when he took over the reigns in 2010 and […]

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‘The Spectator has posted a blog “in defence of Blairism”. Bizarrely the only person they could get to defend Blairism was … Tony Blair. He slates Jeremy Corbyn in the article and the direction of the current Labour party. In the blog, Blair notes that he was the only leader of the Labour party to […]

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Greek’s political majority led by ‘revolutionary’ Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras agreed further suffering upon suffering for the Greek people when they narrowly defeated the opposition over new austerity measures. Tsipras then had the nerve to say: ‘This budget is a difficult task for a government that wants to leave its mark with social justice.’ As […]

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‘Journalists have staged a massive walkout against the Greek government’s planned austerity measures demanded by the international lenders under the third bailout package to the cash-strapped country. Latest media reports indicate that the 24-hour strike put a halt to news programs, website updates and newspaper publications in the country on Wednesday. Several news websites were […]

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”Greece and its international creditors have resumed talks on the Athens’ progress in implementing the tough economic reforms required by the lenders in exchange for a new aid package. According to a statement by the Greek Finance Ministry, the high-level talks began on Wednesday between Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos and representatives of the European Commission […]

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‘The adoption of the austerity measures is stipulated in Athens’ third and latest bailout package from its European creditors and constitutes a condition for the further extension of credits to the country. Among other measures, the draft provides for the retirement age increase from 55 years for men and 50 for women to 67 for […]

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‘Former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, who led the US through the financial meltdown of 2008, said that top financial executives should have been prosecuted for their role in creating the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. Speaking to USA Today, Bernanke blamed the US Justice Department for going after the firms instead of […]

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‘In the wake of the September 20 Greek election SYRIZA has once again formed a coalition government with a small right-wing party, ANEL. Both parties lost votes and seats but their standing, like those of most other parties, was not very dissimilar to the results in January, when SYRIZA was first elected. SYRIZA’s 35.46% and […]

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‘This autumn may see anti-austerity coalitions gain power in Portugal, Spain and Italy, while Marine le Pen’s National Front in France presses for outright withdrawal from the eurozone. These countries face a common problem: how to resist the economic devastation that the European Central Bank (ECB), European Council and International Monetary Fund (IMF) “troika” has […]

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‘Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis is continuing his effort to distance himself from the austerity memorandum Syriza Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has agreed to impose. In doing so, he is succeeding only in confirming the bankruptcy of the entire Syriza project, which has been embraced by pseudo-left groups internationally. Varoufakis became finance minister following […]

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‘Greece’s former finance minister has lashed out at the country’s Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras for “surrendering” to international creditors’ demands for tough austerity measures to secure a third aid package. In an interview with the New Review published on Saturday, Yanis Varoufakis censured Tsipras for going back on his anti-austerity promises and accepting the tough […]

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‘This package amounts to some of the most extreme ‘free market’ fundamentalism we’ve ever witnessed – even by the standards of the International Monetary Fund programmes imposed on Africa, Asia and Latin America in the 1980s. In short, it says that Greece is up for sale, and its workers, farmers and small businesses will have […]

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‘Lawmakers voted to ratify a 30-page “Memorandum of Understanding” to keep the country in the eurozone for the next three years on Friday. But the terms of the deal, which roll back a number of key pledges from the anti-austerity government, have split the ruling party. Mr Tsipras failed to get the backing of at […]

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