Geoff Mann News Today

In a new book, left-wing writers debate whether America is going fascist.

Friends and colleagues have paid tribute to Geoff Mann, who has died at the age of 85

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States are exerting greater control over capital. In the face of climate change, it may be too little, too late.

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Amidst all of the debate around Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, I was shaken this week by a typically salutary thread by Alan Allport on the anniversary of another bombing. Eighty years ago, in a ten-day joint operation, American bombers by day and British bombers by night destroyed a large part of the German industrial and port city of Hamburg.

A bricklaying academy has been launched at a Yorkshire prison to help give ex-offenders the chance to build a more positive new life for themselves after release from jail.

Keepmoat and His Majesty’s Prison Service are tackling reoffending crime rates across Yorkshire with a new bricklaying academy, designed to enable prisoners to unlock employment opportunities on their release.

Degrowth does not have a coherent, programmatic answer for the future of human development.

The degrowth movement is on the ascent, and Marxists are joining the debate, spurred by Kohei Saito's best-selling book on "degrowth communism".