How privatisation has ‘failed us all for decades’
We Own It director Cat Hobbs argues ‘privatisation is an extreme ideological experiment’
We Own It director Cat Hobbs argues ‘privatisation is an extreme ideological experiment’
The column attempts to paint trade unions as the true villain in the miners’ strike
We need a plan for genuine community and worker-ownership.
There has been a conflict in Conservative Party economic policy for the last thirty years – between conservative values of frugality and the rise of personal debt.
Going by a new poll from YouGov, the proposition that we are “all Thatcherites now” appears flawed: some of the central tenets of Thatcherism are deeply unpopular with the public.
Carl Packman reviews Richard Murphy’s new book, “The Courageous State”, and finds it to be an ambitious defence of the role of the State in the world today.
Stewart Lansley presents new evidence that pre-80s managed socialism was actually more successful than the market socialism that replaced it.
The legacy of Margaret Thatcher was fewer workplace rights, longer working hours and less productivity in the UK.
When George Osborne delivers his first Budget on Tuesday, the re-run will be of the Thatcherism of the early 1980s. And, with much bigger cuts to public spending and no North Sea oil bonanza, it will be much worse.