Work for Change
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Co-Editor: Carlo Fanelli
If neoliberalism was sacrificed on the altar of 2008 through proof that private markets are not wholly efficient, welfare-maximizing and self-regulating, 2020-21 taught that government intervention, public ownership and support for essential services were needed to rescue capitalism from a crisis it was wholly incapable of dealing with. Pushed to the margins, workers are in the fight of their lives: on the frontlines of the pandemic, in their homes and workplaces, for climate justice and against the daily precariousness of life under capitalist oppression and exploitation. While calls to Build Back Better have opened-up space for progressive voices long in the shadows of neoliberalism’s most vocal proponents, it is imperative to take stock of capitalism’s powerful tendency to undermine capacities and incorporate progressive politics. In this regard, the crisis of so-called ‘centrism’ calls attention to the urgent task of rebuilding and renewing socialist politics – of getting people to think ambitiously again, and of meeting new challenges through unique solutions left of social democracy.