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Greening the economy

The letter was in The Observer on 30 September: Will Hutton is correct that public resistance to austerity and increasing support for tax and spend should provide a huge opportunity for Labour, but that its present stance on Brexit could keep it from power (“In...

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Corbyn's green job revolution

This letter was published by the Guardian on 27 September: Jeremy Corbyn’s speech had three crucial and interlinked components: the need to transform the economy, to prioritise improving conditions in the “left-behind” areas, and a call for a “green jobs revolution in...

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The Green New Deal and automation

This letter was published in the Guardian on 4 May 2018: John Harris is right to say the left has articulated no comprehensive answer to the existing and future threats posed to employment by automation. Key to this must be prioritising labour-intensive sectors that...

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Brexit offers an opportunity for the Green New Deal

Reposted from Tax Research UK and written by Green New Deal member Richard Murphy: The Guardian has something decidedly right in its editorial today, saying: When running for the Labour leadership, Jeremy Corbyn wanted a “people’s quantitative easing” to boost the...

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Robots and the Green New Deal

This letter was in The Guardian on 26 November 2017: Your editorial on productivity and robots repeated the cliche that automation does cost jobs, but more are created. The problem with this is that the new jobs are frequently in different places from where they are...

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Greening the economy

The letter was in The Observer on 30 September: Will Hutton is correct that public resistance to austerity and increasing support for tax and spend should provide a huge opportunity for Labour, but that its present stance on Brexit could keep it from power (“In...

read more

Corbyn's green job revolution

This letter was published by the Guardian on 27 September: Jeremy Corbyn’s speech had three crucial and interlinked components: the need to transform the economy, to prioritise improving conditions in the “left-behind” areas, and a call for a “green jobs revolution in...

read more

The Green New Deal and automation

This letter was published in the Guardian on 4 May 2018: John Harris is right to say the left has articulated no comprehensive answer to the existing and future threats posed to employment by automation. Key to this must be prioritising labour-intensive sectors that...

read more

Brexit offers an opportunity for the Green New Deal

Reposted from Tax Research UK and written by Green New Deal member Richard Murphy: The Guardian has something decidedly right in its editorial today, saying: When running for the Labour leadership, Jeremy Corbyn wanted a “people’s quantitative easing” to boost the...

read more

Robots and the Green New Deal

This letter was in The Guardian on 26 November 2017: Your editorial on productivity and robots repeated the cliche that automation does cost jobs, but more are created. The problem with this is that the new jobs are frequently in different places from where they are...

read more