TUC general secretary PAUL NOWAK speaks to the Morning Star’s Berny Torre about the increasing frustration the trade union movement feels at a government that promised change, but has been too slow to bring it about

MANY economists these days talk of a process of “de-globalisation” taking place; some others talk of the neoliberal regime of yesteryear no longer existing.
Of course, nothing remains the same forever: as the Greek philosopher Heraclitus said, “you cannot step into the same river twice.” Some change in the neoliberal order is inevitable with the passage of time.
But the real point is: has the analytical frame used for understanding the economic reality of the contemporary world, with a view to changing it, become obsolete and hence in need of serious revision?

PRABHAT PATNAIK details the epochal shift of political power from Western neocolonialists to the people


