Not only the Netherlands’ neighbours must prepare for the closure of the Groningen field, but also the Kingdom itself: the money received from the sale of gas was the main source of budget revenue for the last 60 years. The Dutch government’s decision to close the Groningen camp on […]
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Participatory Budgeting or the people taking back control
Very few local councils in England allow their residents a say in how they spend their taxes. The Labour Party leadership has said nothing about a model of local democracy widely used in Europe and the Americas. Here is the history and here is how it empowers the people. Accountability and Transparency are essential to PB.
Social movements and the return to developmentalism
The neoliberal currents of recent decades have meant a return (in other conditions) to the system of classic dependency. The ruin of these national producers in the countryside and the city contrasts with the strengthening of bourgeois sectors dedicated to exploiting the benefits of “extractivism”, which basically repeats those colonial relations of yesteryear.
Prague: a picturesque survivor
Down the narrow, cobblestoned back-streets beats the heart of a Bohemian nation. Surviving occupations from the Habsburg Empire to the Nazis, Prague is a city whose history is as diverse as the stunning architecture that tells its story. – Georgina Campbell Indulgence in a liberal, unconventional lifestyle defines the […]
Elections in Spain: Unite or fascism returns
Last week, the Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez called for general elections to be held on the 23rd of July. Under the current economic crisis, the war and the rise of xenophobia, a government including the far-right Party Vox would diminish Spanish democracy.