Business as Usual ("Soundings")

by JonathanRutherford (Editor)

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  2009

  $11.89

  In spite of the financial breakdown and the miseries it has brought to so many, the main concern among the political classes - not to mention the bankers - appears to be a restoration of as much as possible of the status quo ante. This is partly because the current crisis is the result of neoliberalism collapsing under its own contradictions: there has not been a major political battle with a strongly backed alternative to challenge dominant narratives. Yet it is worth reminding ourselves that political settlements are never stable, and in the present situation the left must regroup and make every effort to offer its alternative analyses and programmes.