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Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com · 2h

I've just signed up to support the toilet paper company set up by socialists, which donates all its profits to supporting organisers and trade unionists... and you can too!

Sign up using this link:
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Clean Sheet. Change, From the bottom up.

A toilet roll where 100% of the profits fund fairer housing, climate action and workers' rights | Check out 'Clean Sheet. Change, From the bottom up.' on Indiegogo.

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Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com · 4h

If Your Party is to avoid repeating the mistakes of Corbyn's Labour, it doesn't just need better leaders at the top.

It needs to become an organisation full of leaders at every level.
graceblakeley.substack.com/p/your-party...

Your Party Needs More Leaders, Not Less

Building a powerful, democratic movement is the only way to beat the far right.

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Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com · 2d

It's a great time to be a capitalist, and a shitty time to be a worker.

READ: substack.com/home/post/p-...

Why are Workers so Scared for the Future?

In both the US and the UK, workers have been left out of the post-pandemic economic bonanza - and they know things are about to get worse.

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Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com · 2d

It's a great time to be a capitalist, and a shitty time to be a worker.

READ: substack.com/home/post/p-...

Why are Workers so Scared for the Future?

In both the US and the UK, workers have been left out of the post-pandemic economic bonanza - and they know things are about to get worse.

substack.com

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Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com · 4d

I’ve started a weekly podcast with all my Substack content from the week - check it out
open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...

The Roundup with Grace Blakeley

Why more building won't solve the housing crisis, from government shut down to economic slowdown, AMOC collapse, and life on Mars...?

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Peter Schurman @peter415.bsky.social · 6d

“The real shortage is of affordable housing, because ownership is concentrated in fewer and fewer hands. In… major cities, where the jobs are, land and housing are hoarded by investors, private landlords, and developers.”

- @graceblakeley.substack.com

graceblakeley.substack.com/p/building-m...

Building More Won't Fix the Housing Crisis

Housing has become a financial asset that generates vast gains for the wealthy.

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Tom Holbrook @thomholbrook.bsky.social · 7d

One for the Yimbys and supply guys:

Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com · 9d

"Ending the housing crisis requires attacking one of the foundations of neoliberal capitalism: the idea that we are all little, budding capitalists just waiting for the opportunity to invest in financial markets."

graceblakeley.substack.com/p/building-m...

Building More Won't Fix the Housing Crisis

Housing has become a financial asset that generates vast gains for the wealthy.

graceblakeley.substack.com

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ralpholsson.bsky.social @ralpholsson.bsky.social · 7d

Excellent stuff from @graceblakeley.substack.com. People believe that if you build more houses then the price will come down. This simplistic analysis ignores the fact that the demand side is virtually unlimited due to the super rich wanting to buy up all of the assets.

Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com · 9d

"Ending the housing crisis requires attacking one of the foundations of neoliberal capitalism: the idea that we are all little, budding capitalists just waiting for the opportunity to invest in financial markets."

graceblakeley.substack.com/p/building-m...

Building More Won't Fix the Housing Crisis

Housing has become a financial asset that generates vast gains for the wealthy.

graceblakeley.substack.com

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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 7d

Lets be even more brutally honest - a 'libertarian' government whose policies were as competent as the judgement the leader exhibited when getting crypto-scammed, being bailed out by a country best described as state capitalism with "American characteristics"

Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com · 12d

"It’s absolutely hilarious that a nominally ‘libertarian’ government is being bailed out by the largest and most powerful state in the world.

It just goes to show – capitalism cannot survive without the state."
open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...

What I read this week

Another 'libertarian' government needs a bailout, the UK needs to deal with its stagflation problem, and Vanuatu needs to stop itself from sinking.

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Paul Gibson @tpgibbelfast.bsky.social · 7d

Excellent, as ever.

Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com · 9d

"Ending the housing crisis requires attacking one of the foundations of neoliberal capitalism: the idea that we are all little, budding capitalists just waiting for the opportunity to invest in financial markets."

graceblakeley.substack.com/p/building-m...

Building More Won't Fix the Housing Crisis

Housing has become a financial asset that generates vast gains for the wealthy.

graceblakeley.substack.com

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Greta's Cabal @gretascabal.bsky.social · 7d

Capitalism is all very well until it runs out of our money.

Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com · 12d

"It’s absolutely hilarious that a nominally ‘libertarian’ government is being bailed out by the largest and most powerful state in the world.

It just goes to show – capitalism cannot survive without the state."
open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...

What I read this week

Another 'libertarian' government needs a bailout, the UK needs to deal with its stagflation problem, and Vanuatu needs to stop itself from sinking.

open.substack.com

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DiEM25 PT @diem25pt.bsky.social · 7d

Entrevista do Expresso a @graceblakeley.substack.com, que integra o Coletivo Coordenador do @diem25.bsky.social.

“Chamam-lhe liberdade, mas só podemos escolher entre empregos precários e marcas iguais nas prateleiras”: entrevista a Grace Blakeley

Na visão da economista Grace Blakeley, colunista e comentadora regular nos media britânicos, o capitalismo nunca significou mercado livre, antes dominação, por concentrar, de forma invisível, o contro...

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Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com · 7d

Thanks Harry!!

Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com · 7d

Thanks Harry!!

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Harry Hummel @hhumrights.bsky.social · 7d

Excellent article. The 'idea we are all little capitalists' is the dominant political-cultural frame of our time, leading to the main political choice appearing between 2 forms of capitalism: technocratic, rule based vs nativist, rule damaging. The great challenge for the left is to break this frame

Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com · 9d

"Ending the housing crisis requires attacking one of the foundations of neoliberal capitalism: the idea that we are all little, budding capitalists just waiting for the opportunity to invest in financial markets."

graceblakeley.substack.com/p/building-m...

Building More Won't Fix the Housing Crisis

Housing has become a financial asset that generates vast gains for the wealthy.

graceblakeley.substack.com

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Pablo Vila Chirinos @pablo-vch.bsky.social · 8d

“Robust rent controls are essential to curb exploitation in the private rented sector and to stop landlords treating tenants as ATMs to generate ‘passive income’ 🤢. “

Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com · 9d

"Ending the housing crisis requires attacking one of the foundations of neoliberal capitalism: the idea that we are all little, budding capitalists just waiting for the opportunity to invest in financial markets."

graceblakeley.substack.com/p/building-m...

Building More Won't Fix the Housing Crisis

Housing has become a financial asset that generates vast gains for the wealthy.

graceblakeley.substack.com

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Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com · 8d

Yes that's what the article says, and it's not behind a paywall.

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Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com · 8d

Yes, that's what I say in the article

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Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com · 8d

Yes! Going into all this in my next book...

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Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com · 9d

"Ending the housing crisis requires attacking one of the foundations of neoliberal capitalism: the idea that we are all little, budding capitalists just waiting for the opportunity to invest in financial markets."

graceblakeley.substack.com/p/building-m...

Building More Won't Fix the Housing Crisis

Housing has become a financial asset that generates vast gains for the wealthy.

graceblakeley.substack.com

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BodhiCreole @kshahyd.bsky.social · 9d

In the US at least, the housing crisis is really a crisis of social policy. The privatization of worker pensions (many service workers have nothing) and inadequacy of social security has forced us all to look to private housing wealth as our only stable source of longterm security.

Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com · 9d

"Ending the housing crisis requires attacking one of the foundations of neoliberal capitalism: the idea that we are all little, budding capitalists just waiting for the opportunity to invest in financial markets."

graceblakeley.substack.com/p/building-m...

Building More Won't Fix the Housing Crisis

Housing has become a financial asset that generates vast gains for the wealthy.

graceblakeley.substack.com

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Cuðbeorht @cudbeorht.bsky.social · 9d

'Over the past forty years, housing has been financialized. Vast amounts of debt are collateralised by real estate, making mortgages by far the largest assets on banks’ balance sheets. 1/

Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com · 9d

"Ending the housing crisis requires attacking one of the foundations of neoliberal capitalism: the idea that we are all little, budding capitalists just waiting for the opportunity to invest in financial markets."

graceblakeley.substack.com/p/building-m...

Building More Won't Fix the Housing Crisis

Housing has become a financial asset that generates vast gains for the wealthy.

graceblakeley.substack.com

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Jan Overwijk @jloverwijk.bsky.social · 9d

Dit is waarom alleen links met de hernieuwde missie van volkshuisvesting de wooncrisis kan oplossen. Voor een toekomst waarin wonen weer echt een grondrecht voor iedereen is.

Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com · 9d

"Ending the housing crisis requires attacking one of the foundations of neoliberal capitalism: the idea that we are all little, budding capitalists just waiting for the opportunity to invest in financial markets."

graceblakeley.substack.com/p/building-m...

Building More Won't Fix the Housing Crisis

Housing has become a financial asset that generates vast gains for the wealthy.

graceblakeley.substack.com

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Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com · 9d

"Ending the housing crisis requires attacking one of the foundations of neoliberal capitalism: the idea that we are all little, budding capitalists just waiting for the opportunity to invest in financial markets."

graceblakeley.substack.com/p/building-m...

Building More Won't Fix the Housing Crisis

Housing has become a financial asset that generates vast gains for the wealthy.

graceblakeley.substack.com

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Timo Rossi @timorossi.bsky.social · 10d

Kysytään mihin kukaan ihminen tarvitsee miljardien omaisuuksia. Vähemmälläkin saisi kaikki ne huvijahdit, hulppeat kiinteistöt ja yksityislentokoneet. Ei, nämä superrikkaat tarvitsevat miljardinsa koska niillä pääsee ohittamaan demokraattisen päätöksenteon ja muodostamaan maailmasta mieleisensä.

Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com · 14d

"For as long as billionaires exist, they will continue to treat our governments like piggy banks.

From lobbying against climate action, to funding powerful think tanks, to donating to political parties, their fortunes give them a veto over the future."
graceblakeley.substack.com/p/why-we-nee...

Why We Need Wealth Taxes

Extreme wealth undermines equality, justice, and democracy.

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