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Yanis Varoufakis: The second man of our Greek moment
Greece's freshly minted finance minister is London this week. Since Syriza's earth shaking win in Greece last month, Yanis Varoufakis has been making some...
Greece jolts austerity Europe: A media digest
Europe's economic and political furniture has been subject to some serious Greek-inspired feng shui. The tremors of Syriza's win aren't just being felt beneath...
Greece must not stand alone
Mike Davis on why support for the new Greek government is vital and in Labour’s interests
Hope, dignity, bread could summarise the slogans of the...
Greece must not stand alone
Frank Lee is encouraged by the landslide victory of Syriza in Greece but sees huge challenges ahead
Fork in the road for Greece & Europe: Letter from Frances O’Grady
CHARTIST would like to provide space to this letter by Frances O'Grady of the TUC. Despite the misplaced metaphor by the TUC's metaphor department...
Corporate tax avoidance fathers austerity
In the wake of the tax scams in Luxembourg Prem Sikka explains how manufactured tax avoidance schemes are eroding social democracy
Archive Oldie: Yasmin Qureshi on Islam
After the Charlie Hebdo murders in France we need to readdress how Islam and "western values" are talked about. Some have not been too...
Claude Moraes MEP on defending free movement
Claude Moraes MEP argues the Left must take on the EU free movement critics
In the last issue of Chartist Pete Rowlands argued persuasively why the...
Podemos and Socialists arise: In Chartist #272
In CHARTIST 272 Manuel Cortes and Mike Davis cast an interested eye over Podemos & examine the prospects for a revived left in Spain
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The party politics of rent controls: a digest
The spectre of rent controls, that made a notable appearance at the beginning of last summer, has reemerged. A new set of surveys by...
Food Bank Britain: A Merry Christmas. For Some
Many of us would have gorged ourselves silly on a roasted bird of some sort on Christmas day, unfortunately this would have been a...