Ending Thatcherism
Forty years after Thatcher rose to power, the parts of Britain she decimated with deindustrialisation, privatisation and cuts have the opportunity in this election to bury her legacy once and for all.
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Grace Blakeley is a staff writer at Tribune.
Forty years after Thatcher rose to power, the parts of Britain she decimated with deindustrialisation, privatisation and cuts have the opportunity in this election to bury her legacy once and for all.
Labour’s plans to invest in a million green jobs can transform the very parts of Britain decimated by Thatcher’s economic reforms – and begin to undo the damage of deindustrialisation.
Successive Tory governments have starved Britain of investment, leaving its infrastructure to crumble. It’s time to elect a government with a bold plan to rebuild the country.
Capitalism is dying — but it’s up to us to build a system that can replace it, argues Grace Blakeley.
Under capitalist globalisation, Western states and corporations continue to plunder the Global South. Any movement for social justice must break that cycle.
The Left must meet this moment in history with a bold plan to remake our economy — or someone else will.
International speculators are playing games with our housing market — and we’re the ones losing.