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A new Spring for Labour?
This post was first published on May Day in the Lebanon journal, Project Zero, in Arabic. https://alsifr.org/new-era-labourer May Day is traditionally celebrated as International Workers Day when people mobilise to support the strength and importance of labour in its perennial struggle against capital in society. Apart from participating in marches and demonstrations around the world,…
Joseph Stiglitz and ‘progressive capitalism’
The liberal leftist economist and Nobel (Riksbank) prize winner Joseph Stiglitz has another book out to proclaim the benefits of what he calls ‘progressive capitalism’. The Road to Freedom is a play on the title of Friedrich Hayek’s infamous book, The Road to Serfdom, published in 1944, which claimed that government intervention into the ‘freedom…
Vulture capitalism
Grace Blakeley is a media star of the radical left-wing of the British labour movement. She is a columnist for the left-wing journal, Tribune, and a regular panellist on political debates in broadcasting – often the only spokesperson on the left advocating socialist alternatives. Her profile and popularity took her last book, Stolen, straight into…
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