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 participants overview and thoughts of Labours International Social Forum at SOAS in London on the 13th and 14th July 2019.
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From Cuts, to Resistance, to Where?: The State and non-State Actors in the Strategy of Disabled People Against Cuts
Drawing on work by disabled activists, this piece analyses Disabled People Against Cuts strategy 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 ways 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 and this seriousness 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 system that is 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