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Book review: Economics For The Many, edited by John McDonnell
Left economists outline a future Labour government's platform to radically transform society
For the many: A People’s Assembly demonstration against austerity
TOM STONE urges you to catch the last dates of a New York singer/songwriter, never afraid to challenge her audiences musically or politically
JAN WOOLF examines work that aims to give viewers a material experience of the environments in the polar north and Britain equally affected by the climate crisis
The bard recalls advice received 50 years ago from his TRB muse, and sorts out appropriate legislation for football club ownership
MICHAL BONCZA and MARIA DUARTE review Facing War, Kontinental ’25, Bugonia, and Relay
MAYER WAKEFIELD is frustrated by a production of Ibsen’s classic study of an anti-heroine that fails to elucidate her motivations
PETER MASON tunes his ear into the domestic affairs of a Carribbean couple with a troublesome son
IN HIS introduction to 16 essays by more than a score of contributors, shadow chancellor John McDonnell points to how the 2007-8 great financial crash shattered the core myths of neoliberalism, namely that markets are the best possible basis on which to organise an economy and that wealth would trickle down from the top once barriers to corporate profit-making — notably state regulation and trade-union strength — were removed.
What has happened since then, he argues, is that company profits have soared while problems of poverty and homelessness have grown as a consequence of austerity.
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