How to Fight Austerity’s ‘New Wave’
From Planet 250
by Gareth Leaman
Gareth Leaman interviews activist Adam Johannes and argues that resistance to austerity via parliamentary and extra-parliamentary means is less viable than ever. Is this the last chance to avoid permanent damage to our way of life and collective psyche?
After the Johnson administration’s cynical conciliation with the ‘Red Wall’, and the punitive overcorrection of the Truss disaster, austerity has once again assumed its central place in British politics. The Tory government warns of ‘difficult decisions’ and ‘spending reductions’;1 the Labour front bench stresses the need to be ‘fiscally disciplined’;2 the press predicts a ‘new wave of austerity’,3 and speaks euphemistically of ‘[restoring] confidence in the United Kingdom’s ability to manage its public finances’.4
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Gareth Leaman is a writer from Newport. His work has appeared in Poetry Wales, Tribune, New Socialist and elsewhere.
