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Excerpted from Part Six of ‘Super-Smart Democracies: Dissolving Neoliberalism, Elitism and Managerialism’. Just as Copernicus dethroned the Earth from the centre of the Universe, so we now need to dethrone the debt-money system and the power of the plutocrats from the centre of our democratic universe. Without a democratic paradigm that is centred on the …

by Manuela Cadelli, President of the Magistrates’ Union of Belgium, via Defend Democracy The time for rhetorical reservations is over. Things have to be called by their name to make it possible for a co-ordinated democratic reaction to be initiated, above all in the public services. Liberalism was a doctrine derived  from the philosophy of…

Financial meltdown, environmental disaster and even the rise of Donald Trump – neoliberalism has played its part in them all. Why has the left failed to come up with an alternative?

Instead of building real value, the "Age of Me" culture is steeped in "how a person with money hires a person without for the lowest possible wage to make as much profit as possible for the one with

The internet is exploding with conversations about the Panama Papers — the largest data dump in history of secret files about rich people hiding and hoarding money. And yet the biggest story of all is hardly getting any attention.

Neoliberalism is a widely used term today. However, it is often unclear what people refer to when they use it. In its most systematic usage it might refer to a theory, a set of ideas, a political strategy, or a historical period. Could you begin by explaining how you understand neoliberalism?

http://democracynow.org - Brazil’s Senate has forged ahead with impeachment proceedings against President Dilma Rousseff, despite an earlier move by th

It wasn’t long before I too learned to connect the dots. I learned to see that the austerity-induced Structural Adjustment Program of General Ibrahim Babangida in 1986, then lauded as an ingenious economic solution to Nigeria’s problems, was a creature of the IMF, the World Bank, and the Trojan sentiments of free trade.

The human mind evolved to deal with singular threats — a lion jumping out of the bushes or a wildfire spreading through the forest.