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    Public purpose

    Past experiences suggest that public ownership of industry doesn’t guarantee a more socially useful purpose. But it is a necessary condition, writes Raymond Morell

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    Beyond The World Transformed

    Lucy Delany profiles the Transformed Network activists taking TWT projects nationwide throughout the past year

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    Simon Hedges’ tough choices

    Tory meltdown means that Labour has become electable by mistake – but the focus must remain on expelling leftists, writes centrism correspondent Simon Hedges

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    Difficult days ahead for Brazil

    The attempted coup by supporters of the former Brazilian President on January 8th may have been thwarted but as Sue Branford argues, Brazilian democracy is far from safe

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    Dare to struggle, dare to win: overcoming the latest assault on workers’ rights

    Unions must re-build a militant rank-and-file movement to fight anti-worker legislation. Petitions and legal manoeuvring will not do, argues Paul O’Connell

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    Rewilding our dysfunctional democracy

    Just as capitalism destroys ecosystems, it also maintains power imbalances in our democracies. Borrowing ecological principles could yield radical politcal changes, writes Calum McGeown

  • A new Italian era: the inevitable rise of Georgia Meloni

    Can the newly elected postfascist Italian leader Giorgia Meloni last, asks Andrea Pisauro

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