Austerity

Massive economic damage and human suffering resulting from the 2008 financial crisis continue unabated while the implications of this crisis continue to elude us.

The cease-fire in Ukraine is good news, as is the resistance to both war and austerity. But winter is coming and many uncertainties remain.

Until Greece, the EU and the United States reorganize themselves politically and economically to support fiscal stimulus policies, the outlook will remain bleak for employment, according to Dimitri B. …

Socialists must work to build mass democratic social movements and articulate an why a better world is not only possible but feasible, says Joseph M. Schwartz.

Author, critic and screenwriter Ruth Fowler advocates free education for all, a reimagined, less white feminism, and the dethronement of Creative Writing MFA programs.

In the EU, policymakers have raised hypocrisy to an even higher level.

The far right is taking advantage of growing resentment across Europe towards the “New Rome,” and citizens' lost faith in mainstream parties' ability or willingness to secure a better …

The acceptance of austerity by most political parties and the general drift to the right has produced fertile ground for far right-parties to take root, and raised the danger …

In today's On the News segment: Austerity measures are a death sentence for those they impact; Low wage workers will stage the largest strike in fast food history; billionaires' …

The austerity policies imposed by Greece's government since the beginning of the financial crises have literally killed people, with health outcomes by all measures significantly worse since 2007.