“As another vote looms amid the pantomime of Westminster, the core issues behind leave’s win have been ignored. ”
The lessons of austerity and neo-liberalism is being forcefully ignored by those who profit from it.
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Austerity
Yanis Varoufakis: Our new international movement will fight rising fascism and globalists
Maybe there is an international leftist movement gaining traction – although this would just be a beginning. See the piece by Yanis Varoufakis on this topic here Read here
Climate Crisis
Andrew Simms – The case for an Ecological Interest Rate
Between the Anglo-American political horror shows of 2020 and the raging pandemic, something much less theatrical drifted centre stage to play a more than usually important role: interest rates. Read here
EU politics
Gary Younge: This is not a Corbynite coup, it’s a mandate for his radical agenda
Bill Clinton got it wrong. It is not about the economy, stupid. It is about the people. And when the economy does not serve the people, and there is no leftist alternative, then we shall […]
A magnificent commentary.
Second referendum? Just watch the Labour vote tank as the betrayal hits home, leaving the field for another disgusting Tory victory. The Labour Party is a cowardly disgrace. Playing political games just to pander to the Parliamentary Party and Metropolitan young meritocrats is an insult to ordinary working people. Let’s take the straightforward option (rightly favoured by Redwood, even if his overall politics is somewhat clinical and objectionable): get out cleanly and get on with fighting for the things that matter to real lives, including the one that threatens everyone – climate catastrophe.