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Unions must now combine the fightback against cuts with implementing a new, democratic economy directly – and, from Ayrshire and Preston, we already have the model, writes LAURA SMITH
The council has lent £150,000 to attempt to purchase Preston’s iconic venue the Ferret and place it into community ownership

THERE is a fundamental failure, within the narrow parameters across the dominant political classes, to recognise that we live in very different economic times from when the last Labour government was in power.

Tragically, within that context, there is an abject political failure to develop the radical solutions required to tackle the intractable problems currently engulfing our people and our environment.

Rehashing the past simply will not cut through. Papering over the cracks has happened before. It does not cut it and the gaping wounds from previous half-baked solutions are today plain to see.

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