Labour market reform is the new euphemism for systematic job precarity. We need a new platform for European Socialists to fight the new dogma of austerity.

Recent changes to the Lisbon Treaty have essentially declared the debt-financed increased spending of Keynesian economics to kick-start growth to be unconstitutional. Austerity has become the new dogma. Sir Julian Priestley argues that with right-wing parties now dominating Europe’s policy agenda, the left needs to mount “a coherent intellectual onslaught of these ruinous policies”.