Breaking the class ceiling: New books challenge the meritocracy trap
by TIM STRANGLEMAN Neither faith in, nor critiques of the idea of meritocracy is new. Michael Young’s famous 1958 book The Rise
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Capitalism
Socialism ought to come back: Francis Fukuyama
The End of History author on what Karl Marx got right, the rivals to liberal democracy and why he fears
Read MoreTowards climate justice in the spirit of internationalism
By Ammar Rashid Starting today, we will see the largest worldwide climate mobilisation in the history of the planet for
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Policy dialogue: Beyond austerity
Awami Workers Party in collaboration with Senior Journalists Forum is holding a public dialogue to offer a national alternative approach
Read More‘Bech de!’
Aasim Sajjad Akhtar Many readers will recognise that the title of this column is borrowed from an online marketplace that
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Class politics 2.0
Aasim Sajjad Akhtar IT has been a decade since the political uprisings known as the Occupy movements burst onto the
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Implications of spatial shift in global capitalism– an eco-socialist perspective
Herald Report An unprecedented change is taking place in global capitalism regarding the spatial shift from old advanced capitalist economies
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The resurgent left Millennial socialism
A new kind of left-wing doctrine is emerging. It is not the answer to capitalism’s problems AFTER THE collapse of
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The new elite’s phoney crusade to save the world – without changing anything
Today’s titans of tech and finance want to solve the world’s problems, as long as the solutions never, ever threaten
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