#Austerity

I didn't take #CoronaCrisis seriouslyI thought it was the usual @Conservatives bull, distract people etc, like- Bird flu-War on terror- AusterityAll liesThis shit, is not a Tory lie.People are dying.
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The newly elected co-chairs of Momentum, one of whom lives in NY (yeah IKR), have accused Labour-run councils of 'delivering austerity without resistance' in an article for the Tribune magazine.
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THREAD: On 23 January 2017, Quamari Barnes, a 15-year-old schoolboy from north-west London, left school in Willesden. It was supposed to be like any other day. But within three minutes
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Genuine, earnest tweet: I am super happy we're talking about degrowth right now.The status quo is broken beyond repair. That seems obvious. What comes next (and who "the economy" will
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This NYTimes cover is breathtaking and, if you'll forgive my colorful language, it is also absolute bullshit! zero self awareness as to how their newspaper (and mainstream media in general)
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These past days have been difficult for my home institution @CIDE_MX. Colleagues and friends from various countries have been wondering that the problem is. They have kindly asked how we
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This is madness. Nearly all states have some form of balanced budget requirement & face massive cuts to everything b/c of COVID-19. The federal govt, issuing the world's reserve currency
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ANOTHER THREAD ... In today's @FT @martinwolf_ says: "The Tories have provided dreadful government, from post-crisis fiscal austerity at the expense of the vulnerable, to the idiocy of Brexit".... a
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South Africa has quietly entered a phase (!?) of Quantitative Easing (printing money), to keep things afloat. Perhaps necessary now, but what the #RET crowd don't know (or don't care
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New: Free travel for over-60s in London during peak hours was temporarily suspended after Government made it a condition of TfL's £1.6 billion bailout.Ditto, free travel for children. You'll remember
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Do you even understand what Bush era high school was like? Teacher talks about Franz Ferdinand & students yell "Take Me Out!" Lil' Jon impressions. Crunk music at school dances.
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Stop ordering books from Amazon. You can special order almost anything through an indie store and get it in a week. Save our bookstoreshttps://twitter.com/mcnallyjackson/status/1316465872890998784 If you are housebound or don’t
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Thread: I get why pple want to leave the party. I'm not going to say people are wrong to leave even though I've been called by implication, cowardly & senseless
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I would like too announce 3 published Books I've made based on Marxian Economics, Historiography, Philosophy and Sociology. But this time I've Formatted them in Weibo Articles and are FREE
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Fair warning, rant incoming... in light of the narratives we’re hearing from the job creators. Bear with me while I try to work this out. My whole life I’ve been
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I just find it so interesting that in all these chats about inequality and “how bad it’s going to be for Africa” none of these commentators have mentioned the regimes
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