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Rochdale Boroughwide Housing (RBH) tenant and employee representatives have chosen Neil McInroy and Ruth Welford to...

Cross-linked news, and information resources about Pentagon Papers

One of the progressive left’s goals has to be to empower citizens and this is most easily done at the local level.

Governors' Wind Energy Coalition 660+ Groups Call on Democrats to ‘Reject Gas and Other False Climate Solutions’ for Clean Energy Standard Source: By Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams • Posted: Thursday, May 13, 2021 “As we look to combat the climate emergency, it is crucial that we invest in solutions that support a just energy future.” With federal lawmakers and the White House working on a historic infrastructure package, more than 660 progressive groups on Wednesday demanded that top Democrats in Congress “reject gas and other false climate solutions” and ...

Economically, this approach cannot be rerun because it depended on a very particular context – the “long boom” of the 1990s and early 2000s. The high growth of this period was the product of a unique set of circumstances, including the fall of the Berlin Wall and the entry of the former Communist bloc into global markets at the same time as market reforms in China, creating a “great doubling” of the global workforce. This glut of cheap labour, alongside the liberalisation of trade and financial flows, the great wave of privatisation that fuelled the expansion of capit...