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The myth of the money markets
As the pandemic underlines the failure of neoliberalism, Richard Murphy argues the left should embrace Modern Monetary Theory and an alternative debt-financed New Deal
Government stonewalls on justice for families
Jo Goodman on growing urgency for government inquiry into Covid-19 deaths
Fig leaf replaces oven-ready
Julie Ward on an unseemly end to a near 50-year partnership
Government deepens divisions
Paul Nowak outlines a green trade union response to the threat of mass unemployment
Deepening divisions and levelling down
As widely predicted, Covid-19 is now unfolding a second deadly wave. Once again Johnson’s government has been caught asleep at the wheel
Michael Rustin: For a Pluralist Socialism (1985)
At the time this book was written, Rustin was a sociology lecturer at the Polytechnic of North London. He was a contributor to New...
Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the spirit
Trevor Fisher says beware dreamers and false hopes for the future
Black curriculum needed to combat racism
Olivia Bridge says post-Brexit UK immigration rules undermine efforts to make the UK’s national curriculum more diverse
Apartheid – from fact to thriller
‘London Recruit’ Bob Newland reviews 50 years of Peter Hain's anti-Apartheid activism
Hugo’s there?
Patrick Mulcahy on a 21st century Les Miserables
Carry on cycling – but don’t ignore those who can’t
Wendy Davis on the pitfalls of pushbikes