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Video: what’s the point of the Left?

Author
Fourmanfilms
Date
10 June 2013
Type
Video
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China Mieville, Chris Nineham and Laurie Penny debate the future of the Left at Dangerous Ideas for Dangerous Times 2013. Video by Paul Hanes

Many thought the economic crisis would result in automatic growth of the left. But much of the left looks left behind. How has the crisis exposed its weaknesses? And how can they be overcome?

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