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What is degrowth and what are the arguments for it?
Most currently popular arguments for degrowth describe a real problem without recognising its true cause – capitalism’s insatiable need to accumulate, argues the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Activists celebrate ‘buy nothing day,’ protesting against the mega sales on ‘Black Friday,’ the notorious North American festival of shopping, in San Francisco 2007
A sharp rise in public-sector investment is required to kick-start the economy, argues MICHAEL BURKE
Burnham’s billions for defence while councils and local services struggle will not deliver the change that Britain’s working-class communities need, says MICAELA TRACEY-RAMOS
Millions of elms were wiped out by Dutch elm disease in the 20th century, transforming the landscape forever – yet pockets of hope are keeping this beloved tree alive. MARK SEDDON explains
CARLOS MARTINEZ looks at the facts behind US persecution of Fergie Chambers
While Italy’s communist tradition remains fragmented and politically marginal, France’s party is attempting to re-establish itself as an independent force rooted in working-class organisation, says NICK WRIGHT
“DEGROWTH” refers to arguments advocating a reduction in human production and consumption. Proponents of degrowth argue that the current focus on economic growth as an indicator of social prosperity leads to the depletion of living and mineral resources, to pollution of air, land sea, loss of species and the degradation of ecosystems as well as to gross social inequality.
The concept challenges the prevailing idea of continuous economic growth as a primary objective: it questions the sustainability of perpetual expansion on a finite planet.
It is as relevant today as ever given Labour’s threadbare Partnership with Business for Growth manifesto, abandonment of its earlier commitments to a “green transformation” and repeated declarations that “growth” is the only way of funding even its limited proposals for sustaining or improving public services.
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