Category: social democracy

05 Oct

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The coming war on welfare

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Today this tweet showed up in my feed: BernardKeane If Tony Abbott really wants to learn from the Tories he should start with their attack on middle-class welfare http://bit.ly/9vL8os It links to the fallout of a decision by the Con-Dem coalition to slash a billion pounds out of the UK’s universal child benefit, a decision […]

Filed under: age of austerity, class, social democracy, social inclusion

12 Aug

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Greens economics (1): Venturing inside the black box of capitalism

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In recent weeks many political commentators have argued that what is missing in the current, dispiriting campaign is a serious debate on economic policy. But it is hard to see what real debate can be had given that both major parties share a near-identical obeisance to neoliberal orthodoxy: low taxes, balanced Budgets with an aversion […]

Filed under: Bob Brown, economics, Greens, neoliberalism, social democracy