Europe’s Left After Brexit

Former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis responds to his critics and lays out DiEM25’s plan for resisting within the European Union.

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5 Star on the Rise: Italy's First Crowd-Sourced Party Delivers Direct Democracy In Action

The transparency and political openness that helped the 5 Star Movement rise to power must now bring the party's current and future proposals to the forefront if it hopes to achieve any lasting change.

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Fancy Forms of Paperwork and the Logic of Financial Violence

Five years after Occupy, organizer and anthropologist David Graeber speaks to ROAR about the power of finance, the history of inequality and the legacy of the movement.

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Report Finds Racial Wage Gap Widest In Nearly 4 Decades

As wages for American workers have stagnated for more than a generation, the income gap between black and white workers has widened, and discrimination is the main reason for the persisting disparity.

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A Call for Equitable Development In Baltimore

In Baltimore, activists are urging city officials to move beyond "tax increment financing" that privileges billionaires at public expense.

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AFL-CIO to Planet Earth: Drop Dead

In sharp contrast to Richard Trumka and the AFL-CIO, some unions really want to restrain climate change and are now vocally opposing the Dakota Access Pipeline.

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Wells Fargo Whistleblower: "They Are All Riding the Stagecoach to Hell"

Despite all of the fines paid to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Wells Fargo continues to deny any allegations of wrongdoing. Now a former employee is disputing that claim.

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South Manchester Hospital Embodies NHS Success Even As Deep Healthcare Cuts Set In

Stepping Hill Hospital is operating under intense financial pressure – but is still saving lives – as the U.K. government continues to make billions of pounds’ worth of cuts to Britain’s NHS.

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Killing Us Softly: Five Deadly Sins of Big Pharma

“Somewhere, right now, a cash-strapped parent or budget-limited patient will skip acquiring an EpiPen. And someday they will need it in a life-threatening situation, and they won’t have it, and they will die.”

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Central Bank Digital Currencies: A Revolution in Banking?

Central Bank Digital Currencies could supplant the money now created by private banks.

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