neo-liberalism
Black Flag 230 - Sneak Preview
Following a fantastic response at the London bookfair to this issue, Black Flag is even more proud than usual (so that's pretty damn proud) to do our usual giveaway of one particularly thoughtful article from the latest magazine, issue 230 to show roughly what we're about and encourage people to buy, distro and volunteer to help out the real deal in paper, thus keeping us running.
This issue, Brighton SolFed writes in Black Flag about the class logic behind the destruction of the post war social contract...
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
- Cover story: Examining the new welfare bill and why its regressive politics must be fought
- Theory: Exploring the roots of anarchist economics
Neo-liberals don't die, they just amortise
There has been a lot of talk on the left, and even in the mainstream media, about how neo-liberalism is dead or dying as the recession burns a hole through their theorists' tissue of lies. Not a bit of it. If anything, privatisation and the robbing of the working class is accelerating.
While calm waves lap against the shingle of Felixstowe's pretty little beachfront, giant ships tower over the horizon, headed to every corner of the world and back again. Watching them glide from one side of the sea to another seems unreal, as though they belong to another world, the vast container port they've been visiting just an alien outpost tacked onto the end of a semi-retired resort.
