Bailouts, co-operatives or class struggle - a debate

A debate between Iain McKaye and the libcom group about an adequate workers' response to the credit crunch - should we advocate nationalisation, co-op's, or struggle?

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Iain McKay

libcom.org

The initial two articles were published simultaneously in Freedom newspaper, the latter responses were published online.

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