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Climate Crisis

AP News: UK leader Rishi Sunak delays ban on new gas and diesel cars by 5 years in contentious climate shift

September 20, 2023 Ben Wray 0

As Yanis Varoufakis points out “Sunak’s U-turn is a reflection of the total Europe-wide collapse of the market-based, neoliberal consensus on how to tackle the climate crisis. It marks the centre‐right’s new path. And with […]

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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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Peter Oborne – The Telegraph sale: The UAE bid is a risk to press freedom

September 4, 2023 Ben Wray 0

The United Arab Emirates, which ranks 119th in the world press freedom index, might buy one of the UK’s most influential newspapers. Peter Oborne is a British journalist and commentator. Cross-posted from Middle East Eye […]

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Podcast – Marx, piece wages & the gig economy: Interview w/ Matt Cole

September 1, 2023 Ben Wray 0

What relevance does Marx’s writings have to understanding the wage system in the gig economy today? The Gig Economy Project speaks to Dr Matt Cole to find out. The Gig Economy Project is a BRAVE […]

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Alexandra Hall: The technopopulist rendezvous – how freeports undermine local democracy

August 28, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Freeports are a case study in technopopulism: a politics claiming to represent the people against elites by giving old neoliberal ideas a new gloss of paint. Alexandra Hall is an Associate Professor in the Department […]

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Inequality

Richard Machin: Why thousands of Ukrainian refugees in the UK are now homeless

August 23, 2023 Ben Wray 0

The UK Government made a song and dance about helping Ukrainian refugees – now 7,300 Ukrainian households are homeless, and the real figure is likely to be higher. Richard Machin is a Senior Lecturer in […]

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Richard Murphy: Protest is our purpose now

August 14, 2023 Ben Wray 0

What role do people with solutions to offer to urgent challenges play when the main political parties refuse to listen? Richard Murphy is an economic justice campaigner. Professor of Accounting, Sheffield University Management School. Chartered accountant. […]

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Joseph Healy: Transforming Politics from the Left – A new Left party Transform

August 14, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Interesting initiative in the UK to launch a new socialist party. In ‘International Viewpoint’. Read the article HERE.

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Economics

Gwyn Bevan: Why are our current systems of governance failing?

June 19, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Neoliberalism is ultimately a systemic governance failure. Gwyn Bevan is Emeritus Professor of Policy Analysis in the Department of Management at LSE and author of ‘How did Britain come to this? A century of systemic […]

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Tom Blackburn: Keir Starmer Is Keeping New Labour’s Authoritarianism Alive

May 29, 2023 Ben Wray 0

The Blair-era Labour Party introduced a raft of policies hostile to civil liberties. The British government continues to push legislation to clamp down on protesters and protect police, and Keir Starmer is letting it happen. […]

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J. Malcolm Garcia – Most Dangerous, Most Unmerciful: Afghan Stories

August 28, 2023 0

Book Review by Ron Jacobs Cross-posted from Counterpunch. J. Malcolm Garcia is a journalist. Then again, he is so much more. He travels to lands besieged by war and imperial economic policies and exposes the […]

Economics

The Paradox of Debt by Richard Vague

August 15, 2023 0

Book review by Steve Keen Very rarely do I review a book and find that the best way to convey its significance is to quote, verbatim, its first four paragraphs: In 2020, during the darkest […]

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