Jeremy Gilbert joins PTO to discuss why the Corbyn and Sanders projects ultimately foundered. We talked about the significance of personality and strategy versus deeper historical tendencies, and why the Corbyn leadership seemed to prefer a critique of austerity to a broader attack on the neoliberal era. Our discussion was prompted by Jeremy's article in Open Democracy, 'We lost because we weren’t big enough'.

UNLOCKED: Jeremy Gilbert on the defeat of the Anglo-American left (part one)

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UNLOCKED: Jeremy Gilbert on the defeat of the Anglo-American left (part one)

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