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Tag Archives: Labour
Politics as action research? Corbyn, People’s QE, and Syriza.
Politics as action research? Corbyn, People’s QE, and Syriza. These brief thoughts have been triggered by the Jeremy Corbyn campaign to be Labour Party leader, and by Syriza’s negotiations with the Troika. First Labour. There is a lot being written … Continue reading
Hubble, bubble, double struggle: the coming elections.
Hubble, bubble, double struggle: the coming elections. I’ve been meaning to write something on the elections for a while. But this is not so much about the elections as about the approaches on offer. Which elections anyway? My main focus … Continue reading
Posted in ecology, economics, politics
Tagged degrowth, elections, Green Party, Labour, Latin America, Podemos, politics, Syriza, the mess we're in, vivir bien
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We must articulate and publicise viable alternatives.
In the last few days I’ve been moved to write two responses to public statements that each in their way exemplify the bankruptcy of dominant understandings of the challenges facing our society and economy. The first was from Richard Leese, … Continue reading
This brutal Liberal government: reflections on the week of the Tory party conference.
We’ve just been subjected to the disturbing spectacle of a week of the Tory party conference and they still have the ability to surprise us with their brutality. On one level it is just a baying pack of bigots and … Continue reading
Posted in politics
Tagged André Gorz, capital, climate change, coloniality, fracking, ideology, inequality, Labour, Liberalism, Liberals, neoliberalism, NHS, the mess we're in, Tories, welfare reform
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