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Not TINA (There Is No Alternative) but TAPAS: THERE ARE PLENTY OF ALTERNATIVES
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Steve Keen on Europe, Portugal... Democracy

For the Full Video See: "The Valeant scandal and Steve Keen on China and Portugal" RT - Boom Bust, Nov 5, 2015 ...
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Moves for a “left alliance” government accelerate in Portugal - World Socialist Web Site

Moves for a “left alliance” government accelerate in Portugal - World Socialist Web Site | real utopias | Scoop.it
With the Socialist Party unable to significantly capitalize on the disaffection with the government, smaller pseudo-left parties could hold the balance of power.
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A People's History in the Portuguese Revolution 1974-75 | By Raquel Varela (Lisbon, Bertrand, 2014)

A teaser -or booktrailer- by Tiago Gaspar Abreu, videomaker. A book by Raquel Cardeira Varela*, social labour historian. A revolution made by millions 'from ...
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The financial crisis has badly damaged the Greek and Portuguese welfare states

The financial crisis has badly damaged the Greek and Portuguese welfare states | real utopias | Scoop.it

Several European states have pursued austerity policies in the aftermath of the financial crisis, but how have these policies affected welfare states? Sotirios Zartaloudis writes on the impact of the crisis in Greece and Portugal. He argues that both countries have had to pursue unprecedented spending cuts, tax rises and labour market reforms and that the crisis has had a significant negative effect on their welfare states.


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Forget New York City, This City is Where All the Artists Are Moving To

Forget New York City, This City is Where All the Artists Are Moving To | real utopias | Scoop.it
The city investing in art in the middle of a financial crisis.
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Forget New York City, This City is Where All the Artists Are Moving To

Forget New York City, This City is Where All the Artists Are Moving To | real utopias | Scoop.it

Will Dyer came to Portugal for the waves but ended up staying for the art. “I was expecting a poor country with a good surf scene, but Lisbon has blown my mind. There is so much cultural stuff happening here,” the 28-year-old from Melbourne, Australia, tells OZY.



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Forty Years Later, From Dictatorship to Neoliberalism. Portugal as a Model for a New Socialism? | Critical Analysis |Axisoflogic.com

Interconnected communities and regions – and no longer (only) the working class – are the revolutionary subjects for a new socialism. Amongst them the collective intelligence develops with which they are able to encounter the challenges and resist opposition. The country could thereby again become the Mecca of the world’s revolutionary youth. This spark will spread like wildfire – and no power in the world will be able to extinguish it. For a united people, connected through friendship and the sharing of knowledge, in possession of healthy and decentralized conditions of production, unified by a heart-anchored universal ethic – will never be defeated.

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Economist, specialized in political economy and peer-to-peer dynamics; core member of the P2P Foundation