“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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Economics
Cahal Moran – Top Marx for Pluralism
According to Marxist theory, the Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall (TRPF) leads to recurrent crises under capitalism. It’s a helpful device for framing the history of modern capitalism, from the profitability crisis of the 1970s […]
Economics
Grace Blakeley: A post-Brexit economy must aid the losers of financial globalisation
Rather than chastising pro-Leave citizens for “voting against their interests”, the UK’s political class should mend a broken system. Read here
EU politics
Bill Mitchell: An evolving 6-point plan for British Labour
Bill Mitchell looks back and into the future with regard to UK progressive politics. Read here
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.