How ideas change
We are often told socialism can’t work because people will not shift the way they think. John Molyneux in Socialist Worker UK shows how dramatic shifts are possible and have occurred in the past
Ideas
Governed by the gutless?
Alan Beattie’s new booklet “Who’s in Charge Here” (Amazon) is an amusing, accurate, accessible account of the current mess in global financial and trade “governance.” Well worth the $3 price. But he draws a “lesson” from his little history of the crises of 2008–2011 that I find un-satisfying. Who’s in Charge Here is a valuable [...]