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		<title>The salariat is the revolutionary class in the making</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2013/08/24/the-salariat-is-the-revolutionary-class-in-the-making/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Aug 2013 09:36:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[IN THE RADICAL PRESS / L&#8217;HUMANITE Hike pay roll taxes and and a wage for life for all. Radical ideas to take French society beyond capitalism. Interview with Bernard Frio, communist sociologist and labour market expert With over 10% unemployment in France, a labour market in crisis, you are advocating a &#8216;salaried wage revolution&#8217;, even &#8230; <a href="/2013/08/24/the-salariat-is-the-revolutionary-class-in-the-making/">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=7213&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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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>Billions for shareholders, crumbs for workers</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2013/06/02/billions-for-shareholders-crumbs-for-workers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jun 2013 09:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dividend payouts in France increased seven fold over the past two decades, new figures show, underlining widening inequality of wealth in Europe&#8217;s second largest economy. Over the same period workers got very little of this wealth that they had created, with wages rising by around a third. An astonishing 550 billion euros was handed out to &#8230; <a href="/2013/06/02/billions-for-shareholders-crumbs-for-workers/">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=6913&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spain: No Country for Old Men</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2013/05/10/spain-no-country-for-old-men/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 10:42:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Nacho Goberna Spain is no country for old men. Maybe it was before, when today&#8217;s older generation were young, when shoulder to shoulder, with hope, they participated in building this society that we now share with them, or perhaps it will be again in the future when the time comes to leave behind the &#8230; <a href="/2013/05/10/spain-no-country-for-old-men/">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=6781&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Poverty scares us, but inequality outrages us</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2013/03/29/poverty-scares-us-but-inequality-makes-us-outraged/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 11:29:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Edmundo Fayanas Escuer Spanish Caritas has just published a new report (FOESSA) with data for 2012. The outlook is bleak and should mark a turning point for us all to do something to end this social disaster caused by these neoliberal policies imposed by the European Union and which here in Spain are executed &#8230; <a href="/2013/03/29/poverty-scares-us-but-inequality-makes-us-outraged/">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=6422&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Rise and Fall of the Welfare State</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2013/03/19/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-welfare-state/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 14:57:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The welfare state is under attack in Norway as elsewhere in Europe. It must be defended, as far as possible, but there&#8217;s no chance of getting a new class compromise to rebuild it when the conditions underpinning that historic deal between bosses and labour many decades ago have been swept way, along with controls on &#8230; <a href="/2013/03/19/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-welfare-state/">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=6358&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An age old problem</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2013/03/11/an-age-old-problem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 21:49:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forget ageing – capital&#8217;s class war against labour is behind the crisis in pensions and welfare worldwide, says Vincent Navarro Thomas Malthus was an economist who believed that the resources of the planet were limited, fixed and constant. Hence he believed that the growth of the population would reach a level that there would not &#8230; <a href="/2013/03/11/an-age-old-problem/">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=6259&#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>Why the Eurostrike?</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2012/11/10/why-the-eurostrike/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Nov 2012 09:54:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Vincent Navarro The ruling Conservative and liberal parties, both in Spain and in most European Union countries, including the Eurozone, are implementing policies that result in: 1) labour reforms that reduce wages and increase unemployment, 2) the shrinking of the labour force, 3) reduction of social protection, 4) social spending cuts, 5) the privatization of &#8230; <a href="/2012/11/10/why-the-eurostrike/">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=5325&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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