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Interview: Coronavirus: Is This the End of Free Market Capitalism?

While it has already led to more than one million deaths, the consequences of Covid-19 go beyond just public health with 2020 experiencing the sharpest economic downturn in history. Of course much of that was intentional, with demobilisation seen as necessary to control the virus, but what are the longer term economic impacts? Will some […]

Opinion: From Climate to Jobs, Sunak’s Budget ‘Event’ Falls Short of the Protections We Need

by Grace Blakeley

Unless the government invests in creating millions of new, secure, well-paid green jobs, the ‘recovery’ from the pandemic will be even weaker – if it even comes at all. Grace Blakeley on the chancellor's underwhelming summer statement.

Opinion: Global South Economies Like Zambia’s Are Being Battered by Coronavirus. We Must Write-Off Debt Now

by Grace Blakeley

With coronavirus battering emerging market economies, the fate of millions of the world's poorest people hinges on a debt write-off for the global South. This must be one of the central demands of socialists internationally as the pandemic comes to an end, writes Grace Blakeley.

Opinion: We Must Democratise Our Economy or Face an Era of State Monopoly Capitalism

by Grace Blakeley

The Covid-19 pandemic is epoch-defining, writes Grace Blakeley. It could herald the end of the era of finance-led growth, and the beginning of state-monopoly capitalism. Socialists must adapt or face another lesson in disaster capitalism from the right.

NovaraFM: Taking It Back: Public Ownership in the 21st Century

On #NovaraFM, James Butler is joined by Grace Blakeley, Aaron Bastani and Michael Walker to discuss public ownership from nationalisation to socialisation – and what a truly democratised economy might look like.

NovaraFM: Carillion: Scam, Scandal, Opportunity

On #NovaraFM, James Butler is joined by Grace Blakeley and Ann Pettifor to discuss the decline and fall of Carillion, outsourcing, financialisation – and how to transform public investment in Britain.

NovaraFM: Budget2031

Aaron Bastani is joined by Grace Blakeley and James Meadway as they ask whether the recent budget offered conclusive proof that Britain's economic model is dead.