A New Deal moment

Michael Taft07/12/2010

Michael Taft: The budget will be nasty, brutal but unfortunately not short. Its effects will last – unless people through their popular organisations put enough pressure on the opposition parties to commit to its repeal. But repeal to what end?

We must demand a New Deal moment – a fundamental break from the existing parameters. You can read about this here.

Posted in: Economics

Tagged with: budget

Michael Taft     @notesonthefront

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Michael Taft is an economic analyst and trade unionist. He is author of the Notes of the Front blog and a member of the TASC Economists’ Network.


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