Privatizations
The Austerity Train Wreck
By James K. Galbraith
Mar 10, 2023
If human error is to blame for the deadly train collision in Greece on February 28, the responsibility ultimately...
Wanted: a Mass Uprising Against the Neoliberal Matrix
by Walden Bello
June 14, 2024
A few months before the coronavirus shut down the world, Chile exploded against neoliberalism. A World Bank economist, Sebastian Edwards,...
The Rise of the Jewish Policy Elite: Meritocracy, Myth and Power
Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court marks a continuation and deepening of the lopsided ethno-religious representation in the US judicial system....
European Prosecutor for Tempi: “This trauma cannot be healed without Justice”
March 14, 2024
He talked about the investigations concerning the crime of Tempe in his central news bulletin Star the European Public Prosecutor, Laura Kovesi.
“They...
Police batons send 8 students with head injuries to hospital (picts)
Mar 11, 2024
Εight students were transferred to hospitals with injuries in the head and the arms they sustained by police batons during the big...
Pay or Die: Greece’s Health Ministry introduces “Afternoon Surgeries”
Mar 5, 2024
A joint ministerial decision to allow afternoon surgeries in public hospitals was signed on Tuesday by the Ministries of Health and Finances.
These...
USSR 1989-91: The “democratic counter-revolution” of the nomenklatura
By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos
Third of four articles on Alexandr Buzgalin and his era. The Soviet/Russian tragedy. You can read the first article here https://www.defenddemocracy.press/aleksandr-buzgalin-and-his-time-the-soviet-russian-tragedy/ and...
Thousands march in Greece to protest private universities
Jan 25, 2024
Thousands of pupils, students and teachers gathered in Athens and other Greek cities to protest the establishment of private universities on Thursday.
Protesters...
Clashes between police and students protesting “private universities”
Jan 11, 2023
Clashes between students and police broke out in Athens and Thessaloniki on Thursday, when students took to the streets to protest government...
Battle for the beaches: Greek islanders fight for access
In a protest dubbed "the beach towel revolt," Greek islanders are fighting the creeping, illegal privatization of beaches. The "towel movement" demands free access...