The country’s new prime minister, Andy Burnham, has promised a break from the politics of the last 40 years—realizing more broadly that Labour must stand up for the 99% against big business, or the party will become irrelevant.
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Secret $1.5 Million Donation from Wisconsin Billionaire Uncovered in Scott Walker Dark-Money Probe
Shocker: Scott Walker is corrupt.
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Leak Over Privatized Cancer Care Exposes Latest For-Profit Blunder By U.K.'s Health Service
Last week saw the biggest leak in the history of the U.K. National Health Service, with the publication of a document that revealed clinical commissioning groups were looking for a private company to accept a £1.2 billion contract for cancer care.
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Chicago's Mayor 1% Funnelled Teacher Pensions Into His Own Donors' Hedge Funds
A report that Rahm Emanuel’s administration invested money from the city teachers’ union in private equity funds run by some of the mayor’s biggest campaign donors is adding fuel to the charges that he neglects all but his wealthy backers.
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Student Debt: A Penalty the Poor Pay for Not Being Wealthy
Until the federal government gets serious about bailing out America’s students and instituting free, public higher education for all who apply, America’s student debtors should refuse to make any further payments.
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Strategies of the 1 Percent Revealed
Americans often fail to notice the 1 percent’s game.
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Capitalism Is Just a Story and Other Dangerous Thoughts, Part II
The only way to change our economic system is to change what the system values – and to change the very rules that articulate and maintain those values.
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Capitalism is Just a Story and Other Dangerous Thoughts, Part I
We need more options, not more uniformity; more deep thinking, not more rote acceptance; more opposition, not more repetition of the cold dry lie that there is no alternative.
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Seeds of Power: The Geopolitics of GMOs
The fact is that GMO technology is first and foremost an instrument of corporate power.
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David Graeber's Utopia of Rules: Why Deregulation Is Actually Expanding Bureaucracy
His new book asserts that the 1% pushes a message of deregulation even as it feeds off an ever-growing global regulatory system of its own making.
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Manchester Privatizes Its Buses, Raising Fares In Latest Setback to Public Services
The First Great Manchester Transportation Authority has now become a private enterprise that caters to a very public necessity: busing.
