The Kilburn Manifesto: our challenge to the neoliberal victory | Stuart Hall

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using the crisis of global capital to assert its power. But this is not the time of retirement. Our manifesto describes the

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The crisis in the global economic system caused by the collapse of the banking system 2006-08 precipitated a new moment in the evolution of world capitalism. But the novelty is not generally understood.

Some previous crises, the most famous of the great depression and the depression of the 1930s, was a radical social change: the welfare state and the New Deal, and the rise of fascism. Over the past five years as Occupy protest groups have emerged, and resistance to austerity has increased. However, there was a system failure or ideology in power. Indeed, elites have used the crisis in Europe and North America to advance the neoliberal project, as incessant attacks against the standard of living, the NHS and the welfare state in Britain show.

The disintegration of the British colony after the war was the central project of one of the most controversial political figures of the New Right, Margaret Thatcher. His funeral last week was designed for installation as the emblem of a unified nation, and the seal of three decades of work by three political regimes - Thatcherism, New Labour and the coalition - to fundamentally reform Britain. As David Cameron told the BBC. "We are all now Thatcher" Thatcher is dead, long live Thatcherism

What's new in this phase of capitalism? Its global interconnection, fueled in part by new technologies and the domain of a new type of financial capitalism that if a crisis of the system affects all these effects are mixed. So far, the BRIC countries seem relatively unscathed, while the impact of the economic devastation has spread from Asia and Africa to Europe.

Details of old forms of social solidarity is accompanied by the spectacular growth of inequality and the gap between those who run the system or their paid working poor, unemployed workers, underemployed or wrong.

The crisis has revealed a new international super-rich ethnic diversity. The Sunday Times Rich List is topped by two billionaire oligarchs and Indian. They live a life completely divorced from and almost unimaginable to ordinary people, fed by a seemingly unstoppable appetite for profit.

victory of neoliberalism has relied on the courage and ambition of global capital, in the confidence that you can now govern not only the economy, but the entire society. In the back of a liberal political and economic theory renovated its supporters have built a new vision and common sense that have permeated society. Market forces have begun to shape the institutional life and press deeper into our private lives as well as those who dominate the political discourse. They have shaped the popular culture that celebrates fame and success and promotes the values ??of private profit and possessive individualism. They have completely undermined egalitarian redistribution consensus underlying the welfare state, with painful consequences for socially vulnerable groups such as women, the elderly, young people and ethnic minorities.

operating companies cheap labor, natural resources and land has aggravated the crisis in developing countries. Environmental degradation, poverty, pandemics, poor education, ethnic divisions and civil wars are inevitable failures marched as postcolonial and cause the old powers to intervene to preserve the conditions of capitalist accumulation.

• The neoliberal victory reaffirmed the power and position of the dominant classes. But this victory was not inevitable. No social attachment is permanent, and it was fought, the coup in Chile and the defeat of the miners in Britain in the current attacks on workers' rights and benefits system. There is more than one way out of the current disaster. There is always an alternative.

Today - Wednesday - the founding editors of polls, the new left-wing magazine first published in 1995, launched a manifesto in which they seek to define the way forward. During the next year, and employees in a series of months, analyze the various aspects of the current crisis and to try to formulate a more systematic set of commonly asked questions. It has policies, but requires approaches and solutions hope to contribute to a wider debate which is environment in which the authorities.

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collusion working with the neoliberal project - through a program of privatization, outsourcing and marketing in the public sector - has left the party can not draw a clear line with the coalition. After leading most of the gains of Thatcherism Tony Blair, which is limited by the timid leadership, lack of clear vision and new ideas.

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