A gift to the bankers

Quantitative easing is no friend of working people

Trojan hearse: The Greek elections and the euro leper colony

The Syriza chief is blissfully ignorant of the history of the euro. The horror of austerity is not the consequence of Greek profligacy – it was designed into the euro’s plan from the beginning, writes GREG PALAST

Crunch time for Greece

The upswell of support for Syriza emphasises the need for a change in direction across Europe as a whole, says KEVIN OVENDEN

Struggle on the streets of Athens

Joana Ramiro speaks to workers who have had enough of attacks on their living standards

3.2 million now underemployed

Spiralling low pay and part-time work is ruining lives

An alternative to the Establishment

With disappointingly few MPs from the main parties voting against public spending cuts, Hywel Williams explains how Plaid would aim to do things differently

Ex-MP: foodbanks mark return to era of the workhouse

A former Leeds MP has said the growth of foodbanks in Britain marks a return to the Victorian workhouse.

Councils plunged into ‘black hole’

Local authorities failing most vulnerable because of cuts

Labour MPs’ backing for austerity Bill a ‘disservice’

Assembly calls for local protection