"Ian Rankin once explained to an interviewer (the head of the Indian Communist Party!) that crime fiction is a way of talking about social inequality. Ron Jacobs applies that same maxim to the Sixties... in his wonderfully noir trilogy of those exhilarating and troubled times. And what Rankin does for Edinburgh, Jacobs amply illuminates for the Movement. Much much more than ripping yarns (though they are that too), from a master who's been there, done that, and lived to tell a tale or two."
Showing posts with label anti-austerity movement Britain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label anti-austerity movement Britain. Show all posts
Monday, May 8, 2017
Friday, April 7, 2017
Friday, November 4, 2016
The Greeks, the Troika, Resistance and History
As we head into 2017, the world seems to be
heading towards even greater uncertainty.
The nationalist rejection of the EU in Britain, the uncertain meaning of
the US election and future (at this writing) results, a seeming desire by
western capitals and Russia for greater war in the Middle East, and various
artificial bubbles created and maintained by the gamblers in the financial
markets; all of these seem to point to more of the same for Greece with an ever
growing likelihood that the next burst financial bubble will take down more
than just those economies considered on the fringe of the central markets. This uncertainty alone is reason enough to
read this book.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/11/04/the-greeks-the-troika-resistance-and-history/
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/11/04/the-greeks-the-troika-resistance-and-history/
Thursday, June 9, 2016
Tuesday, November 11, 2014
Friday, March 28, 2014
Monday, February 3, 2014
The Campus Wage Gap
This is about two schools in Vermont, but applies elsewhere...
http://vtdigger.org/2014/02/02/ron-jacobs-campus-wage-gap/
http://vtdigger.org/2014/02/02/ron-jacobs-campus-wage-gap/
Monday, October 28, 2013
Economic Justice-The Final Frontier?
Originally published as a column in TORTURE: Asian and Global Perspectives
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/10/25/economic-justice-2/
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/10/25/economic-justice-2/
Saturday, March 3, 2012
Friday, November 18, 2011
Friday, November 4, 2011
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