MARIA DUARTE and ANGUS REID review Materialists, Unmoored, Together, and Bambi: A Tale of Life in The Woods
That Corbynism has endured and, indeed, taken Labour to 40 per cent of the poll in its only general election test to date is surely due to a confluence of factors — the post-2008 crisis of neoliberalism which, inter alia, swept away the political and economic assumptions of New Labour; the development of left-led mass movements against war and austerity which sought a more comprehensive political expression and the deep-rooted and long-frustrated desire of millions of people for that alternative which Thatcher and Blair insisted didn’t exist.