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Overcoming the City: socialism in Britain
Speaking to Ben Chacko, ANDREW MURRAY outlines the themes of his new book, addressing the unique roadblocks the British left faces thanks to the dominance of finance capital — and what it will take to turn things around

IS SOCIALISM possible in Britain? Andrew Murray’s book of the title seeks to explain the five-year socialist project, and its failure, in a class context.
Corbynism may be “receding into the rear-view mirror” of politics — though the standing ovation Jeremy Corbyn received at The World Transformed on Saturday shows how popular it remains in some quarters.
But Murray’s concern is to assess which factors made the Corbyn project strong and which ultimately brought it down. And that comes down to class: “That’s the $64,000 dollar question if you like,” he says. “Can class politics be recalibrated?
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