Beyond the Manifesto.
All of the articles we have published under the tag Beyond the Manifesto, beginning with the most recent.
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Imagining New New Towns
Post-War New Towns were shaped by the contradictions in social democracy and then the destructive effects of neoliberalism, but New New Towns should be part of imagining new possibilities.
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A New Internationalism is Possible: Notes from the first International Social Forum
A participant’s thoughts on Labour’s International Social Forum at SOAS in London on the 13th and 14th July 2019.
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From Cuts, to Resistance, to Where?
Drawing on work by disabled activists, this piece analyses Disabled People Against Cuts as a liberatory organisation of disabled people rather than a mere component of a broader anti-austerity groups
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Abolish Prisons for Children and Young People
Prison doesn’t work for children and young people. It is a failed institution. What we have to do is the exact opposite: find approaches that work and are successful in helping children to feel part of society.
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How to Make Buses Sexy
Labour is beginning to take buses seriously. This needs to be translated into policies that address poverty, empower communities, and contribute to the green agenda.
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Towards a Luxury Goods Tax
Replacing VAT with a Luxury Goods Tax would be popular, progressive and part of a move towards decommodification of basic consumption goods.
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Labour and the Planning System: Lessons from Fracking
A genuinely democratic planning system, open to popular knowledge, is an essential part of defining our lived social spaces
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Beyond the Manifesto: A New Deal for the Arts
The arts - though sometimes viewed as relatively autonomous - are subject to the diktats of neoliberal structures. It’s time for Labour in government to fundamentally change these structures.
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Notes on radical citizenship
The manifesto was the method - now Labour's objective will be to change the soul
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Balancing the books: the controversy over Labour’s macroeconomic policy commitments
The fiscal credibility rule appears to make a concession to 'sound finance', but has been defended as anything but. Can this position reflect wider understandings of progressive macroeconomics?
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Socialist Internationalism: Beyond the Manifesto on Foreign Policy
Labour’s goal should be to transition the UK out of its post-imperial phase of militarism and support for US hegemony, and into a new foreign policy paradigm of socialist internationalism.
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Beyond Tuition Fees: Democratising higher education
The amount of debt each graduate holds has increased at a nauseous pace, but focussing on the image of the debt-burdened student hides what else is happening to our universities.
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What Should a 21st Century Socialist Housing Policy Look Like?
Labour's 2017 manifesto was timid on housing but, globally, there are examples that could form the beginnings of a 21st century housing programme
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Beyond the Manifesto—Call for Submissions
A call for submissions on how to move beyond the Labour Party's 2017 manifesto