Neoliberalism

Articles

Reality check for the left by Leigh Phillips (June 2009)

If the collapse of capitalism can’t improve the left’s chances, what will? Red Pepper’s Europe correspondent, Leigh Phillips, surveys the political landscape after the European elections

Feelbad Britain and the future of the left by Pat Devine, David Purdy (June 2009)

If the left in all its diversity is to develop the coherence to meet the new challenges posed by the implosion of the capitalist financial markets, then it needs to overcome the weaknesses that allowed neoliberalism to triumph in the 1980s. Here Pat Devine and David Purdy suggest strategic thoughts for the future, drawing from their analysis of what they see as the left’s lack in the past of a positive project for social change

Criticism is not enough by Jeremy Gilbert (January 2009)

New Labour did not implement its policies of the past decade in a vacuum, says Jeremy Gilbert. The question now is whether the left has an alternative