Back from a mini tour of Yorkshire and Stockport and cheering for supporting act Indignation Meeting
Book review: Economics For The Many, edited by John McDonnell
Left economists outline a future Labour government's platform to radically transform society
PIC CAP: For the many: A People’s Assembly demonstration against austerity
ALISTAR FINDLAY is mesmerised by this multiple ‘Visions of Scotland’ assault on the audience’s eyes and senses
The Star's critics ANGUS REID, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MICHAL BONCZA reviews I Am Love, The Penguin Lessons, Freaky Tales, The Thicket
MAYER WAKEFIELD has reservations about the direction of a play centered on a DVLA re-training session for three British-Pakistani motorists
New releases from Steve Knightley, Jupiter & Okwess, Jason Palmer, Lisa Knapp and Gerry Driver, Kin'Gongolo Kiniata, Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey, Dan Sealey, Simin Tande, PAZ
JOHN GREEN relishes photography that unfolds a longstanding and poetic relationship with Leeds
A uncomfortably misogynistic authorial voice that sometimes seems to lack insight troubles FIONA O’CONNOR
IN HIS introduction to 16 essays by more than a score of contributors, shadow chancellor John McDonnell points to how the 2007-8 great financial crash shattered the core myths of neoliberalism, namely that markets are the best possible basis on which to organise an economy and that wealth would trickle down from the top once barriers to corporate profit-making — notably state regulation and trade-union strength — were removed.
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A deeper analysis would also have to acknowledge that while corporate profits have indeed continued to boost the income and wealth of the capitalist class in Britain, the long-term tendency of the rate of profit to fall has driven the turn to neoliberalism and financialisation.
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