The series unveils uncomfortable truths about youth alienation and online radicalisation — but the real crisis lies in austerity and the absence of class consciousness in addressing young people’s disillusionment, says teacher ROBERT POOLE
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Good riddance to the dead centre
We are living through a serious breakdown of the ruling class’s political mechanisms of control and the twilight of neoliberal 'centrism.' Not one step back for the left, writes KEVIN OVENDEN
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TOMORROW is a chance to elect a socialist prime minister in the country that gave the world Thatcherism and Blairism.
It is a historic election on a par with 1979. Every effort up to 10pm will make a difference.
However the results stack up, the campaign has already revealed fundamental fault lines. Among them is a crisis for the politics of the capitalist class and for the ruling bloc in Britain that has held such control for so long.
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