Archives: Adam Blanden

Johnsonism’s response to Coronavirus aims to reconfigure state-capital relations both in guaranteeing private sector activity and in extending the commodification of social reproduction.

by Adam Blanden
Aug. 25, 2020

What can we learn from Johnson’s spell as Mayor of London? What are the ruling class strategies of the Johnson project? How does it stand in an international context?

by Tom Gann, Adam Blanden, Sabrina Huck, Rhian E. Jones
Aug. 25, 2020

The Coronavirus crisis has seen a return to the familiar EU deadlocks. This can best be understood through how the EU represents and organises (and disorganises) class fractions.

by Adam Blanden
Aug. 25, 2020

The Conservative government may wish to centralise power in Westminster – but there are trends in British society that no tech whizz can fix.

by Adam Blanden
Feb. 12, 2020

Capitalism's leading lights are worried about the viability of the current model of capitalism – the Left must use the next crisis to offer real change to the structure of ownership that underpins it.

by Adam Blanden
Oct. 29, 2019

If Labour is to really overturn the prevailing orthodoxy of the Bank of England, it may have to take bolder action to end the Bank’s independence.

by Adam Blanden
Sept. 14, 2019

Data on political donations from the Electoral Commission shows that money in politics is much more a question of the exercise of class power of capitalists rather than direct corruption.

by Adam Blanden
Jan. 20, 2021

The pandemic may have dealt a decisive blow to an already irrational and often oppressive industry, but the sense of solidarity developed between English Language Teachers may outlive that collapse.

by Adam Blanden
Nov. 25, 2020