Happy 100th birthday, French Communist Party!
The French Communist Party (PCF) will be celebrating its centenary between 25 and 30 December 2020
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Macron’s Authoritarian Turn Drives Turnout in the Streets
Recent weeks have seen massive protests across France, bringing to a close a year that was turbulent even by French political standards. In this interview, Season in Hell editor Ethan Earle discusses Islamophobia and anti-racism, the growing powers of the security state and the rising voices of people in the streets
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The impact of a Financial Transaction Tax (FTT) on economic recovery and financial stability
This report analyses the impact of an FTT on financial stability, market liquidity, economic growth and revenue collection. It will assess the collection of this tax and its effects on some of the most speculative markets, such as high-frequency trading markets, or markets eluding public control, such as shadow banking
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From one crisis to the next?
What have been the fiscal and economic policy responses of the Italian government to this growing inequality and what left-wing solutions are being put forward?
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Corporate Welfare in a Time of Pandemic
France’s biggest companies get richer while the rest get only vague promises to 'build back better'. A recent report from the Multinationals Observatory follows the money paid out to France’s 40 largest corporations, and what they did (and didn’t) do with it. Here, the findings of that report are analysed, revealing a shocking Covid-recovery policy that benefits the few at the expense of the many
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Decolonising the 21st Century
Recent independence referendums in the South Pacific French territory of New Caledonia have taken place under the wary eye of a French Republic that could – for the first time in its history – take part in a peaceful and democratic decolonisation process. The rising New Caledonian independence movement should be understood by anyone interested in the possibility of living in a post-colonial world
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Putting cross-border rail traffic on the right track
The European Year of Rail in European border regions