He would bankrupt the country and destroy the economy.Ĭapitalism, it seemed, was part of the natural order of things. Apart from being an IRA sympathiser and an anti-Semite, Jeremy Corbyn, I was told, was a Communist. I also remembered what I had heard whilst door knocking during the December 2019 General Election. I wondered if this book might tell me something different.
I had a friend who worked on the 30th floor of Barclays Tower in Canary Wharf – he always told me that competition and the market were part of the natural order of things. I was intrigued, too, by the chapter headings: “It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of Capitalism” and “What if you held a protest and nobody came”.
I was taken by the cover, with its picture of a brutalist glass tower and by the title of the book – “Capitalist Realism – Is There No Alternative”. I bought this Molotov cocktail of a book whilst on the South Bank, making my way to an exhibition at Tate Modern.
Kill the Bill – Dorset stays true to its history of radical protest. Protect Portland – No to the Waste Incinerator!. Giovanna Lewis and Annie Webster – Speaking for the young and the unborn. My Green Education – the 2019 XR Protests in London. Campaigners fighting to save the Swanage and Purbeck Ambulance Car. Swanage and Purbeck Ambulance Car – Swanage Town Council vows action. Fair treatment for student midwives – the Government must act !. Dorset NHS – inequality on the increase. Open Letter to Spencer Flower, leader of Dorset Council, re free school meals. Open letter to Richard Drax MP, regarding free school meals. “The Nickel Boys”, by Colson Whitehead, a review. Racist plaque in St Peter’s Church, Dorchester. Richard Drax – the MP who hides behind his wall. South Dorset Labour Party supports and signs Stand Up To Racism’s Open Letter to Drax. Paul Lashmar, investigative journalist, turns the spotlight upon Richard Drax. Stand Up to Racism Dorset – Open Letter to Richard Drax. Richard Drax – do the honourable thing!. The Barbados connection: the past involvement of the Drax family with the practice of slavery in the Caribbean. Channel 4 News – Richard Drax: time to accept responsibility. Hidden Dorset: the call for change long overdue. Richard Drax and the Drax Dynasty – from Barbados to Dorset. Looking for Agnes – Bridport’s first female Town Councillor.
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