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Robin McAlpine – Change the story, change the future

January 10, 2025 Mathew D. Rose 0

The authoritarian neo-liberal political class together with state and corporate media bombard us daily with the same old lie: CAPITALISM IS GOOD FOR US.  It is good for the wealthiest 10%, but it is destructive […]

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Chris Dillow – Repairing the public sphere

December 29, 2024 Mathew D. Rose 0

The Commons has been one of the main victims of Neo-liberalism Chris Dillow is an economics writer at Investors Chronicle. He blogs at Stumbling and Mumbling, and is the author of New Labour and the […]

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Austerity

Richard Murphy – Both the Tories and Labour are pro-market extremists now

April 7, 2024 Mathew D. Rose 0

With the devolopment of neo-liberalism, ideas like democracy, justice, equality, and community have been shattered. Liberal democracy became authoritarian liberal democracy, which is mostly authoritarian. In some nations, such as Germany, the drift is going […]

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Riccardo Petrella – Another step by the powerful towards the financialisation of life and the break-up of the state of public commons and universal rights

January 22, 2024 Ben Wray 0

BlackRock has announced the purchase of Global Infrastructures Partners, seizing yet more control of the planet’s natural resources. Riccardo Petrella is an Italian political scientist and economist. He is currently honorary professor at the Catholic […]

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The Commons

Jelena Vidojević – “Another world is possible”: or how we can learn to stop worrying and love the crisis

December 7, 2023 Mathew D. Rose 0

In horrific times like these one should not forget to have utopias ready as part of one’s intellectual tool box Jelena Vidojević is a political scientist and the co-founder of the New South Institute “A […]

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Stewart Lansley: Poverty in Britain is firmly linked to the country’s mountain of private wealth – Labour must address this growing inequality

September 6, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Labour appear to have given up on tackling poverty and inequality before they have even got into power. Stewart Lansley is Visiting Fellow at the School of Policy Studies, University of Bristol. Cross-posted from The […]

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GND Media – “Degrowth does not mean poverty for the working class” Interview with Jason Hickel

July 5, 2023 Mathew D. Rose 0

Listen HERE We’ve always said that environmentalism needs to understand class if it wants to protect the world from climate catastrophe. Degrowth has been accused by some on the Left as green austerity, or just […]

Climate Crisis

Building Tomorrow: Averting Environmental Crisis With a New Economic System by Paddy Le Flufy

June 11, 2023 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book Review by Manda Scott We’re in the midst of a polycrisis. If generalised, unaligned AI doesn’t terminate us, the oceans seem likely to die before we do, and if we manage to survive both, […]

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Climate Crisis

Jason Hickel – Universal public services: the power of decommodifying survival

April 13, 2023 Mathew D. Rose 3

Universal public services and a climate job guarantee: these are popular interventions that would abolish economic insecurity, liberate our economy from growth imperatives, and provide the basis for a united climate and labour movement. Jason […]

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Economics

Martha Dillon – We need more than new homes: New census data confirms UK building stock is growing faster than population

January 18, 2023 Ben Wray 0

The widespread notion that there is simply not enough houses being built is ignorant of the facts. You can’t tackle the housing crisis without tackling the liberalisation of the housing market. Cross-posted from Positive Money […]

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A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine by Chris Hedges

May 5, 2025 0

Book Review by Chris Green It provides a modicum of relief to one’s mental health to turn from Nicholas Kristof’s lame bothsidesism and Bernie Sanders’s blather about Israel’s “right to defend itself” to reading Chris […]

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Abundance – How We Build a Better Future by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson

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Book Review by Michael Roberts Abundance is a new book that has been attracting attention and debate among mainstream economists and politicians.  It aims to explain to Democrat members in the US why their party […]

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