A surprising alliance of big business, activists and left-wing politicians have condemned the shareholder value paradigm. But did it ever really exist?
A remade New Public Management for the left should focus on co-operative, open planning through democratic worker control of management technologies. Part of openDemocracy's "Left governmentality" mini-series.
Every single one of us holds the key to power - debt. Just as coal miners in England used their access to coal to flip the balance of power, so debtors can use their access to credit by declaring a 'debt strike', to force a revaluation of the bank stranglehold on the economy.