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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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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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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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Jonathan Cook – Britain: Labour is paving the way for the triumph of dark politics

March 1, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Labour leader Keir Starmer is determined to destroy the last vestiges of Corbynism through smears. Jonathan Cook is the author of three books on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and a winner of the Martha Gellhorn Special […]

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UK, EU strike new Northern Ireland post-Brexit deal

February 27, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Al Jazeera report on the new Northern Ireland deal, known as ‘the Windsor Framework’. Read the article HERE.

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Ben Wray – Britain: Boris’ War exposes his liberal critics

February 22, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Boris Johnson is at his demagogic worst in escalating the war in Ukraine. Yet his liberal critics are quietly supportive of his provocations. Ben Wray is the co-ordinator of Brave New Europe’s Gig Economy Project […]

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Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany by Norman Ohler

August 10, 2025 0

Book review by  Branko Milanović As I walked yesterday past the Metropolitan Museum in New York, I saw, among many stands that sell all kinds of trinkets, a table filled with books. One attracted my […]

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The Spectre of State Capitalism by Ilias Alami and Adam D Dixon

July 2, 2025 0

Reviewed by J. D. Evans Alami and Dixon’s The Spectre of State Capitalism is a careful discussion of a topic often dealt with in platitudes and sound-bites. The authors cover uses of ‘state capitalism’ as […]

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