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		<title>Employers call for &#8216;tax haven&#8217; in France</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2013/07/20/employers-call-for-tax-haven-in-france/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jul 2013 22:29:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Patrick Apel-Muller The new head of the French Employers Association MEDEF, Pierre Gattaz, considers himself to have the ear of power, so much as to say aloud what employers want in France: ‘A tax haven’. He did not mean by this one of those tiny states which are used to launder money from corporations &#8230; <a href="/2013/07/20/employers-call-for-tax-haven-in-france/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revolting-europe.com&#038;blog=17583418&#038;post=7150&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Greece is slashing public sector jobs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jul 2013 16:37:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amid much protest in the streets, the Greek government last night passed a law firing thousands of public sector workers. Twenty five thousand public servants &#8211; mainly teachers and municipal police &#8211; will be placed in a layoff scheme by the end of 2013. They have eight months to find another position or get laid &#8230; <a href="/2013/07/18/why-greece-is-slashing-public-sector-jobs/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revolting-europe.com&#038;blog=17583418&#038;post=7133&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spanish radicals &#8216;ready to govern the exit from neo-liberalism&#8217; &#8211; Interview with Cayo Lara</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2013/05/31/spanish-radicals-ready-to-govern-the-exit-from-neo-liberalism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2013 10:10:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interview with Cayo Lara, leader of Izquierda Unida (United Left) Cayo Lara, 61, is general co-ordinator Izquierda Unida (United Left). During the party&#8217;s last Congress he was re-elected by a unanimous vote to lead the party, that in parliamentary elections in November 2011 achieved almost 7% of the vote, winning 11 seats. Since then, under his &#8230; <a href="/2013/05/31/spanish-radicals-ready-to-govern-the-exit-from-neo-liberalism/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revolting-europe.com&#038;blog=17583418&#038;post=6888&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thousands rally for publicly run health services in Madrid</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2013/05/19/thousands-rally-for-publicly-run-health-services-in-madrid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 20:23:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[More than 60,000 health workers and citizens turned out in the streets of Madrid in the fifth mass protest against the privatisation of the capital&#8217;s health services since the start of the year. Unions CCOO and UGT and the radical United Left party formed part of the &#8216;white tide&#8217; rising against the plans of the &#8230; <a href="/2013/05/19/thousands-rally-for-publicly-run-health-services-in-madrid/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revolting-europe.com&#038;blog=17583418&#038;post=6842&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Italians say &#8216;enough&#8217; in mass protest against new government</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2013/05/18/italians-say-enough-in-mass-protest-against-new-government/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 10:58:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Enough. We can not wait any longer.&#8221; This was slogan behind which tens of thousands of workers, students, pensioners and radical left activists were marching in Rome Saturday in the first major protest against Italy&#8217;s new centre-left-right government. Led by metalworkers&#8217; union Fiom, thousands of people marched to the beat of drums and whistles in &#8230; <a href="/2013/05/18/italians-say-enough-in-mass-protest-against-new-government/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revolting-europe.com&#038;blog=17583418&#038;post=6831&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Margaret Thatcher: the architect of Europe&#8217;s crisis</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2013/04/17/dedications-to-margaret-thatcher/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 11:38:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thatcher introduced to Europe the economic and political model that is now destroying it. Here&#8217;s some dedications from critics (from the European mainland) of the late British prime minister, who has received such lavish, and unwarranted praise, in recent days.  French Communist Party: For some she put an end to the &#8220;monopoly&#8221; of the unions, she &#8230; <a href="/2013/04/17/dedications-to-margaret-thatcher/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revolting-europe.com&#038;blog=17583418&#038;post=6597&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Austerity is Hurting Women in Europe – In Numbers</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2013/03/08/gender-impact-of-the-austerity-in-europe-in-numbers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 14:27:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Women are disproportionally affected by austerity cuts because they are society&#8217;s main carers, and the main users of public services and welfare recipients, where there have been heavy reductions in budgets; they predominate in low paid, insecure employment, which is expanding, facilitated by labour counter-reforms; because they are heavily employed in the public sector where &#8230; <a href="/2013/03/08/gender-impact-of-the-austerity-in-europe-in-numbers/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revolting-europe.com&#038;blog=17583418&#038;post=6202&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spain&#8217;s Unfinished Civil War</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2013/01/17/spains-unfinished-civil-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2013 17:14:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Vicente Navarro The history of Spain in the twentieth century (and into the twenty-first century) is the constant conflict between, on the one hand, financial establishments, focused on banking, and business, focused on large employers (assisted by a state dominated by conservative forces, including the armed forces and the judiciary and police, and the &#8230; <a href="/2013/01/17/spains-unfinished-civil-war/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revolting-europe.com&#038;blog=17583418&#038;post=5791&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fresh privatization push in Europe bucks recent trend as no benefits found</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2012/11/21/fresh-privatization-push-in-europe-bucks-recent-trend-as-no-benefits-found/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2012 15:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new privatisation bonanza is underway in southern Europe, with Greece and Portugal leading the way. But recently published research shows the trend in recent years in Europe has been in the opposite direction as it becomes ever clearer that there are no benefits – except for the corporations and fat cats The European economic &#8230; <a href="/2012/11/21/fresh-privatization-push-in-europe-bucks-recent-trend-as-no-benefits-found/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revolting-europe.com&#038;blog=17583418&#038;post=5500&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New network of economists launches European rescue plan</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2012/11/12/new-network-of-economists-launches-european-rescue-plan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:34:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new European Progressive Economists Network has launched a radical plan to rescue the Continent from austerity and the terror of finance with a democratic and green model of development that brings the banks under social control and promotes public services. The network includes Belgium&#8217;s Econosphères, Spain&#8217;s Econonuestra, France&#8217;s Economistes Atterrés and Italy&#8217;s Sbilanciamoci! and &#8230; <a href="/2012/11/12/new-network-of-economists-launches-european-rescue-plan/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revolting-europe.com&#038;blog=17583418&#038;post=5379&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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