Thanks to the Electoral College, leftists have perhaps the final say this November over whether democracy can hold on for at least another four years, or if fascism will take root and infect all facets of the federal government for decades to come.
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Why Labour's Election Manifesto Is "A Breakthrough for Popular Interests"
"What could be more popular than turning rail, water, energy and post into publicly owned entities and stopping shareholders from creaming off profit and public subsidies?” asks author Richard Seymour, in response to the Labour Party manifesto.
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"The System Is Rigged": Jeremy Corbyn Wants to Put Wealth Back in the Hands of Ordinary People
Ahead of next month's general election, the Labour leader said his party will overturn the rigged system by implementing fairer policies, including a minimum wage of £10 an hour and an increase in corporation tax for big businesses.
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Walking Back Brexit? U.K. in Shock as Snap Election Signals "Welcome Dose of Reality"
British Prime Minister Theresa May declared Tuesday that a “snap election” would be held June 8, three years ahead of schedule, shocking the nation and throwing the Brexit project into widespread question.
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Jeremy Corbyn Floats Idea of a U.K. Wage Cap to Reign In "Utterly Ridiculous" Exec Salaries
"This is not about limiting aspiration or penalizing success – it’s about recognizing that success is a collective effort and rewards must be shared. We cannot have the CEO pretending they are worth thousands times more than the lowest paid staff."
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U.K. Opposition to Austerity Is Building As Brexit Economic Concerns Deepen
“We want to send a message to the Tories that their austerity experiment has failed our country, failed our economy and failed our people – and it is time to end it."
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Britain Emotional After Jeremy Corbyn Wins Vote to Retain Labour Party Leadership
But fears abound that the battle between the leftist Corbyn and his detractors may cause Labour to split into two parties.
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Fancy Forms of Paperwork and the Logic of Financial Violence
Five years after Occupy, organizer and anthropologist David Graeber speaks to ROAR about the power of finance, the history of inequality and the legacy of the movement.
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Is Britain’s New Prime Minister more "Radically Right-Wing" Than We Thought?
Theresa May's new Head of Policy had drawn up plans to lower the minimum wage in poorer U.K. regions.
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Occupy Corbyn: The Battle to Keep, Or Oust, Leftist Labour Leader Takes Center Stage
The anti-Corbyn forces within Labour might very well have achieved the complete opposite of what they aimed to achieve.
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Season of the Demagogues: Brexit Exposes Ways Britain Is Moving Closer to U.S.
After Prime Minister David Cameron’s departure, Brexit Britain will hold a leadership race and possible national election later in 2016, with the race for Downing Street set to be as divisive as the Brexit campaign and perhaps even the U.S. presidential race.