What Is Neoliberalism?
David Harvey on what neoliberalism is, where it came from – and why the concept is still relevant today.
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Ko Leik Pya works as a teacher and writer in the UK and Myanmar. He writes here under a pseudonym.
David Harvey on what neoliberalism is, where it came from – and why the concept is still relevant today.
Marx is often remembered as a political economist or philosopher. But he made his mark as a journalist.
The demise of secure work and the rise of ‘precarity’ is a theme of the modern world – and now, it’s finding its way onto the big screen.
Knighting Iain Duncan Smith – the man responsible for Universal Credit, the bedroom tax and ‘fit for work’ tests – shows just how much contempt the establishment has for ordinary people.
50 years ago, the Piazza Fontana bombing in Milan began Italy’s ‘Years of Lead’. Responses to the bombing and its aftermath would define Italian culture for decades to come.
Socialist historian E. P. Thompson brilliantly chronicled the ravages of early capitalism — and the fierce resistance it provoked.
In her latest book, Naomi Klein continues the cause of her career: arguing that a fundamentally new economic system is the only way to save society and the planet.
The ultimate aim of socialism is as simple as it is beautiful: the freeing of all people from domination, replacing stunted dreams and alienation with human flourishing and boundless creativity.
Socialists can’t wave away questions about what we propose the future should look like. We have to wrestle with them and put forward our vision of a world after capitalism.
During Christmas in 1914, soldiers dropped their weapons and resisted war.
The Murdoch press has started its attacks on Rebecca Long Bailey and her Salford ‘mafia’. It’s not hard to figure out why – Salford is a proud and radical working-class community that points the way forward for the Labour Left in 2020.
Labour’s transformative policies had huge popular appeal – but without a credible promise to change how politics works, too few people believed we could deliver them, argues Jon Trickett.
Labour must rebuild trust among working-class people in all parts of the country – but abandoning its transformational policies would be a mistake, argues Richard Burgon.
Margaret Thatcher described Right to Buy as ‘one of the most important revolutions of the century.’ She was right. And we’re still living with the consequences.
Labour has long been a coalition between Bethnal Green and Bolsover – it’s vital that attempts to regain lost ground in the North and Midlands don’t come at the expense of black and brown working-class people.
Why are strikes called “strikes”? The answer goes back 250 years, to the birth-pangs of the working class.
Labour’s decision to embrace a second referendum was a fatal blow – convincing its heartland voters that the party had turned its back on them and denying it the chance to speak across the culture war divide.
A reader writes a tribute to the career of Dennis Skinner, firebrand socialist MP, who lost his seat of 49 years in this week’s election.
In 2017, Labour’s victory in Crewe seemed to be a sign of renewal in one of its former strongholds. 2019’s result shows that the party’s problems in towns like this run much deeper – and won’t be solved easily.
This is not the time to abandon the socialist policies that would most improve lives in the very areas Labour lost. Instead, the task is to build a more effective movement that can win them.