Creating A New Left Economic Manifesto - need your help!

international | worker & community struggles and protests | other press Wednesday July 27, 2005 01:51 by eurotribbers

One for the wonks. Good site. Chip in and divest them about Irish Illusions.

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"I think what we ought to do, since the French, German, and Italian left seem so bereft of ideas now, is to create a manifesto for them, a set of policy proposals that would seriously address the problems of slow growth and high unemployment, but in a way that preserves the traditional European commitment to social justice.
There's potentially plenty of material available - Sweden, the Netherlands, Ireland, for example, are all countries that have recently faced economic crises and recaptured economic dynamism without totally succumbing to neo-liberal nostrums. We might examine what lessons they hold for the bigger economies. We might also investigate what left policy intellectuals have come up with."