Globalisation is dead, and white supremacy has triumphed | Paul Mason
by Paul Mason from on (#20Z56)
Trump's victory is a betrayal of ethnic minorities and women. Progressives must direct their energies to building an alternative to the failed neoliberal model
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"I sit in one of the dives " uncertain and afraid," wrote WH Auden, in the days before war broke out in 1939. Tonight it's the entire leftwing, humanist and liberal world's turn to sit in its modern dives - coffee bars staffed by global, precarious, young people - and face it. Globalisation is dead. The American superpower will die.
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