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Wainright: UK Election: No Political Parties Offered "Big Ideas To Match The Depth Of Crises”
Znet Article, May, 20 2010
Hillary Wainright
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What we saw in the UK election campaign and the recent coalition deal is the level of opportunism amongst the political parties, and the real absence of politics and ideas on how to deal with major crises in the economy, over climate change and of...
Wainright: Cameron's 'big society' is a toy town
Znet Article, April, 24 2010
Hillary Wainright
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Britain's Conservative Party plans to cut the power of the state whilst doing nothing to give people control over big business, where inequality breeds.
Wainright: Beyond the Casino State
Znet Article, April, 02 2010
Hillary Wainright
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Still in thrall to neoliberal nostrums, British politicians compete to dismantle the state as a provider of services, leaving its function as primarily a prop to private capital.
Wainright: Osborne's Airbrushed Co-op Policy
Znet Article, February, 20 2010
Hillary Wainright
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For all the Tories' fine talk of empowered workers, their plans would only undermine the public sector's democratic rebirth.
Wainright: Rocking the System
Znet Article, February, 06 2010
Hillary Wainright
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A campaign is mounting for the remutualization of Northern Rock, the bank whose collapse heralded the financial crisis. A community-owned bank would serve wider social needs, rather than private profits.
Wainright: A real green deal
Znet Article, October, 24 2009
Hillary Wainright
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5 years ago, workers at the Lucas Aerospace company formulated an ‘alternative corporate plan’ to convert military production to socially useful and environmentally desirable purposes. What are the lessons for greening the world economy today?
Wainright: Now to complete the democratic revolution
Znet Article, May, 30 2009
Hillary Wainright
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The current anger in Britain over MPs' misuse of public money is more than outrage at the pathetic greed of public representatives. It is a fury over a deep-seated failure of public control of public money, that should now be the basis of a moveme...
Wainright: Public service reform … but not as we know it!
Znet Article, March, 20 2009
Hillary Wainright
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The need for convincing alternatives to market-led politics is urgent, especially as the government continues to defer to the financial markets rather than to challenge them. Lord Mandelson’s determination to part privatise Royal Mail is the mos...
Wainright: A Place for the Left
Znet Article, September, 23 2008
Hillary Wainright
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The pull of national and local identities away from Westminster is a vital clue to understanding and preparing for the unravelling of New Labour...
Wainright: A Rough Guide to the Italian Political Crisis
Znet Article, April, 06 2008
Hillary Wainright
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Italians have often led the way in creating a European left but now they face a crisis at home that could mean the return of Silvio Berlusconi
Wainright: Rethinking Political Parties
Znet Article, February, 10 2008
Hillary Wainright
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Wainwright examines the role of the party in transformative politics and asks how the left might reimagine this crucial instrument of political change...
Wainright: Porto Alegre By The Arno
Znet Article, November, 21 2002
Hillary Wainright
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With a backdrop of failure in Europe's democratic institutions, the best of the continent's civil society thronged to the welcoming streets and piazzas of Florence last month. Trade unions, peace movements, networks of activists campaigning agains...
