The Neoliberal Revolution

Stuart Hall, Doreen Massey and Mike Rustin examine some of the contours of the neoliberal revolution, while Tariq Modood and Jan Dobbernack, and Jon Wilson, add in a different way to the discussion on Labour's future associated with the Soundings ebook The Politics of Paradox.

Gerry Hassan and Paolo Gerbaudo describe successful attempts to create alternative narratives - by Alex Salmond in Scotland and Nichi Vendola in Italy respectively; and John Palmer makes a cogent case for the continuing importance of the EU. A series of articles grapple with social provision under the neoliberal dispensation: Kate Bell and Jason Strelitz discuss the framing of debates on poverty; Mark Fisher shows how the destruction of our social fabric has caused many people to suffer from stress - remedies for which have themselves been privatised; Hilary Cottam argues for putting relationships at the centre of welfare provision, rather than transactional procedures; and Sue Gerhardt, Tessa Jowell and Sarah Stewart-Brown reflect on the ways in which Sure Start, a project that initially had relationships at its core, was overtaken by the imperatives of the drive to solve poverty through welfare to work programmes.