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FRENCH economic superstar Thomas Piketty has joined Labour as an economics adviser, vowing to “expose austerity.”
The Capital in the 21st Century author is the biggest coup for the new six-strong gender-balanced economics advisory committee unveiled by Labour yesterday. Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz has also been recruited by shadow chancellor John McDonnell to help him set out a credible alternative to austerity.
The willingness of globally renowned economists to advise Labour is a major boost to Mr McDonnell ahead of his conference speech today.
by David Nicholson, Wales reporter
Our charter’s demands for fair pay, affordable housing and environmental security will recruit working-class youth into the political struggle for socialism, emulating the success of the Women’s Charter, writes YCL general secretary GEORGINA ANDREWS