#Austerity

Since the very comfortable Blue Checks are out in force blaming marginalized people for Biden’s continuing drop in the polls, let’s, once & for all, put to rest this notion
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This is silly.Part of the reason why the NDP won a massive mandate during COVID is because the pandemic has made us all realize that NDP policies like investing in
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Though some contemporary unions are ineffective, they still contain the potential for working-class power. To denounce unions without attention to the intentional manner in which they have become compromised by
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They used an Excel spreadsheet for T&T when a database would be industry standard? The app was months delayed because of a technologically illiterate initial spec. Why?Because everything is privatised
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What Burnham is doing goes way beyond Greater ManchesterHe's standing up for local government that has been battered and criminally underfunded for the past 10 years I wrote this (pre-pandemic)
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Boris really boxing himself in with no wiggle room to avoid a red-faced climbdown or no deal, ‘Albanian’ style. The background : a long term productivity crisis that goes back
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Before MAS, there wasn't really a united mass movement of Marxists/socialists and the rural indigenous population in the country. Bolivian Marxists had focused on the urban proletariat and had largely
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One amazing thing is that state owned operations, like public transit, are being subjected to market forces and it’s being played off as a consequence of COVID-19. Its treated as
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THREAD: the lies the Tories tell on economic policy—and the factsCLAIM: Labour’s plans would mean every worker pays £2,400 in tax.FACTS: 95 per cent of workers will pay no more
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A large no. of Scots have been driven to want independence due to Brexit & Tory rule. We need the SNP & other progressives on board, to kick out the
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Do people fully appreciate the economic implications of the new Covid-19 surge? And how it interacts with policy? It's pretty grim 1/ What we're seeing in the Sunbelt is a
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Reading Andrew Gamble’s contribution to @MarkPerryman ‘s ‘Corbynism from Below’. This quote seems timely - I hear a lot about ‘no return to “normal” ‘. But, as Gamble points out,
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The economic fallout from COVID-19 is generating a huge crisis of overaccumulation, and no one is talking about it.The US and UK governments are effectively handing money to rich people,
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When this is all over there is gonna be a reckoning. I need a QC and a sponsor to start democide proceedings against the British Government at the Hague. 1.
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Hugh Pym kicks us off with an utterly embarrassing question that sums up the BBC’s inability to understand the public at large; perfect illustration of how bad journalism has been
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No, Shri Bhagwat Gita doesn't talk about caste system. It has reference only about Varnas and not Castes. Varna is the activity that one professes, this activity is called his
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