ACRadio Episode 1: Would a Labour left government calm the financial markets?
In response to a recent Youtube Video by Owen Jones, Rowan Fortune and Simon Hannah discuss whether a left Labour government would actually be able to avoid financial markets trying to bring it down in a similar way to how Liz Truss was evicted from 10 Downing Street after 44 days. 31 October 2022.
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In response to a recent Youtube Video by Owen Jones, Rowan Fortune and Simon Hannah discuss whether a left Labour government would actually be able to avoid financial markets trying to bring it down in a similar way to how Liz Truss was evicted from 10 Downing Street after 44 days. 31 October 2022
Rowan Fortune authored Writing Nowhere; edited the anthology of utopian short fiction Citizens of Nowhere; and contributed to the collaborative book System Crash. It writes on utopian imagination, revolutionary theory and trans* liberation.
Simon Hannah is a socialist, a union activist, and the author of A Party with Socialists in it: a history of the Labour Left, Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay: the fight to stop the poll tax, and System Crash: an activist guide to making revolution.
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