Portugal’s “Miracle” of 2025: Profits soar and workers suffer
When The Economist crowned Portugal the “best performing economy of 2025,” it was applauding a model that has…
Tennessee legislators push bill to track immigrant students in bid to overturn universal right to public education
Students hold signs calling for the abolition of ICE at the Knoxville, Tennessee protest January 30, 2026. The…
Corruption scandal hits Greece’s GSEE trade union bureaucracy
Since early February, Greece’s main private-sector trade union confederation, the General Confederation of Greek Workers (GSEE), has stood…
Germany’s CSU pushes war, police-state measures and social cuts at Seeon retreat
Soldiers follow a Marder infantry fighting vehicle during a demonstration event held for the media by the German…
Germany’s economic crisis deepens as mass layoffs sweep industry
Many working class families spent the Christmas holidays in anxiety and are looking into the new year with…
IMF calls for radical reform of the European welfare state
The enormous costs of rearmament, the consequences of the international trade war and the profit demands of banks…
How popular is the British royal family?
Austere environment Who introduced the word ‘austerity’ into the political lexicon? While chiefly associated with attacks on the…
Germany: Mass layoffs, trade war and war—What is to be done?
The crisis in the German and European automotive and supplier industries is assuming catastrophic proportions. Not a day…
Badenoch tackles Starmer on tax – POLITICO
Watch and wait: The PM, you won’t be surprised to read, skirted around the query, stressing the government…
Right-wing billionaire Babiš wins parliamentary election in the Czech Republic
After four years in opposition, right-wing billionaire Andrej Babiš and his party ANO have emerged as the winners…
California’s two-tier economy mirrors Great Britain’s ‘Upstairs, Downstairs’ past | Dan Walters | Dan-walters
Forty years ago this month, I began a 9,000-mile tour of California, gathering data, conversations and observations about…
Crisis-stricken France weighs work-life balance against overseas competition
This week’s collapse of the French government – featuring the resignation of a prime minister after only 27…