Author: Benjamin Selwyn
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Decolonising Development with Frantz Fanon
The great cultural theorist Stuart Hall called Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth “the bible of decolonisation” as it encapsulated the urge for freedom across the colonial world. Fanon … Keep reading »
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The Struggle for Development: The Labouring Classes in Turkey
The below is drawn from the preface for the newly published Turkish edition of The Struggle for Development, first published in 2017. The original edition aimed to root development thinking … Keep reading »
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SR21: Community Restaurants / Postcapitalism: Alternatives or Detour?
Dual Presentation with Benjamin Selwyn and Greg Albo, from the 2021 Socialist Register. Watch video »
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Understanding Development in a Global Value Chain World: Comparative Advantage or Monopoly Capital Theory?
The recent period of globalization – following the collapse of the Eastern bloc and the integration of China into the world economy – is in essence the period of global … Keep reading »
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Food Inequality, Covid-19 and the Community Restaurant
Far from the COVID-19 pandemic bringing us together, it has revealed and exacerbated existing and brutal social inequalities. The UK’s food system was intensely unequal before COVID-19, but the crisis … Keep reading »
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The Two Souls of Veganism
Veganuary 2020 in the UK is set to be the biggest ever. Last year over 250,000 people pledged to go vegan in January; this year the numbers are greater still. … Keep reading »
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Globalization’s Corroding Edifice
The World Bank’s World Development Report (WDR), published every year since 1978, plays a similar role to that of the state of the union address in the US, in which … Keep reading »
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The Agro-Food Complex and Climate Change: Veganism or a Green New Deal?
Humanity is standing on the brink of catastrophic climate change. How can we begin to think about the societal transformations necessary while limiting warming to 1.5°C? Keep reading »
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Working Women: Should We Be Combatting Sexism to Stimulate Economic Growth?
In the run-up to International Women’s Day, it was good to see Christine Lagarde highlight the problems of sexism in the global economy. Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary … Keep reading »
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A Manifesto for Socialist Development in the 21st Century
In early 2017, it was revealed that eight men owned as much wealth as half the world’s population (Oxfam 2017). This is in a world where, according to the most … Keep reading »
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Labour’s Permanent Reformation
The 2017 British general election has generated the beginnings of a qualitative-change in the relationship between the Labour Party, much of British society, and parliament. That transformation can be understood … Keep reading »
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Rethinking Recovery: Poverty Chains and Global Capitalism
Reorienting value generated within ‘global poverty chains’ is essential to improve the lives of an impoverished world labour force. Contemporary global capitalism is characterized by extreme wealth concentration and a … Keep reading »