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Robin McAlpine – Change the story, change the future

January 10, 2025 MDRose 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 MDRose 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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Richard Murphy – Both the Tories and Labour are pro-market extremists now

April 7, 2024 MDRose 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 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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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 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 MDRose 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 MDRose 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 MDRose 2

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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Jeremy Corbyn: The Cost-of-Living Crisis Demands That We Democratize the Economy

January 2, 2023 Ben 0

Bring basic resources like energy, water, railways, and the postal service into democratic public ownership, writes the former Labour leader. Read the article HERE.

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Guy Standing – The Era of Rentier Capitalism

December 14, 2022 MDRose 0

By the end of the twentieth century, the global economy and global society had become dominated by Big Finance Guy Standing is Professorial Research Associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the […]

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Designing Global Economic Equality: The Making and Unmaking of Global Egalitarian Policies at the United Nations by Christian Christiansen

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Reviewed by Branko Milanović The just published book by Christian Christiansen Designing Global Economic Equality: The Making and Unmaking of Global Egalitarian Policies at the United Nations provides an intellectual review of the history of […]

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Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World: A New Economics for the Middle Class, the Global Poor, and Our Climate by Dani Rodrik

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Book Review by Walden Bello Dani Rodrik has impeccable credentials as an economist. He is an expert in many areas, including trade and development, and is one of Harvard University’s leading lights. In recent years, […]

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