Dopo anni di politiche che hanno svuotato l’università pubblica di risorse e ne hanno alterato la funzione sociale, occorre più che mai una riforma complessiva che parta dalla gratuità e da una nuova università per una reale democratizzazione della società, contro l’esclusione e le disuguaglianze www.huffingtonpost.it
On December 30, 1917 Seymour Melman was born in New York City. The 100th anniversary of his birth helps bring his intellectual legacy into focus. Melman was the most significant reconstructionist thinker of the 20th Century, championing alternatives to militarism, capitalism, and social decay by advancing a systematic counter-planning program for disarmament and economic democracy […]
A Buenos Aires tra paralisi e rilancio di vecchi affari, torna di scena l’Organizzazione mondiale del commercio. Una cosa è chiara: le sue ricette negli ultimi venti anni hanno contribuito a impoverire milioni di persone. Martedì, i movimenti si riprendono la città con lo slogan “Fuori Wto! Costruiamo sovranità” comune-info.net
Rising poverty, youth unemployment and impending sovereign bankruptcies – Europe has been undergoing a stress test almost permanently since the financial crisis began in 2008. For a number of years, the opportunities for people to participate in society worsened considerably in most EU states. But now, almost ten years after the crisis, a new trend […]
The new Global Strategy for the European Union’s Security and Defence Policy presented in June 2016 by the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini comes at a moment of high uncertainty and radical change in the international system www.transform-network.net
It’s pretty well known that U.S. workers have lost a lot of bargaining power over the past few decades. Wage gains, for example, haven’t kept pace with rising productivity. Clearly, workers have been unable to take home a fair share of the new value they were creating. Why? One big potential culprit is the decline […]
History repeats itself, Marx wrote, first as tragedy, then as farce. If you wonder how it might repeat itself the third time, look at Italy: a country where the most effective opposition to government are – literally – comedians, and where the prime minister himself is a joke. This has distorted most analysis of the […]
With the eurozone in permanent crisis, Brexit on the horizon, and far-right parties on the rise from Germany to the Czech Republic, the future of the European Union has never seemed so much in doubt. Whether it’s the president of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, the German Chancellor Angela Merkel, or the French President Emmanuel […]
After the ECB regulatory tightening on banks’ non-performing loans (NPLs), announced with the well-known “addendum” to its guidance to banks of October 5, a barrage of anger came from the Italian banks and institutions (even the Minister of Economy Pier Carlo Padoan and the Bank of Italy took a stand) to defend the threatened stability […]
As even its harshest critics concede, neoliberalism is hard to pin down. In broad terms, it denotes a preference for markets over government, economic incentives over cultural norms, and private entrepreneurship over collective action. It has been used to describe a wide range of phenomena – from Augusto Pinochet to Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, […]