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Nothing, says ANDY HEDGECOCK, can rescue this undistinguished amalgam of ponderous melodrama and shallow philosophical speculation
Book review: Powerful case for new coalition against austerity
MARJORIE MAYO on a timely look at resistance and alternatives to privatisation
JAMIE BRITTON invites readers to visit 3,500 locals as part of a marathon artistic pub crawl
JOHN GREEN welcomes a valuable and incisive analysis of a world become hyperpolitical but without the mass movement institutions to represent it
JAMES WALSH is moved by a provocative and original take on the relationship between ecology and architecture, and a plea to work with, not against, the materials and minerals of our world
An immersive, participatory display by a queer Australian Aboriginal performer, and a rebellious unravelling of traditional Scottish dance
The Tragedy Of The Private, The Potential Of The Public
by Hilary Wainwright
(Public Services International/Transnational Institute)
At a time when public services are under continuing attack and with the threat of further cuts in the pipeline, alternative strategies are needed urgently, as this booklet by Hilary Wainwright so strongly argues.
In recent times, the failures of privatisation have been emerging only too clearly and, as a result, even in that traditional stronghold of pro-private market ideology which is the US, services are being brought back in-house.
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