Joe Guinan

Jun 17, 2024 | bostonreview.net | Joe Guinan |Martin O’Neill

Táíwò is right that what Wallerstein called the “two-step” strategy—“first gain power within the state structure; then transform the world”—looks harder to achieve than ever in our world of unfolding climate calamity. But is Táíwò’s updated first step—dethroning the exorbitant and deadly power of fossil capital—any easier to achieve than Wallerstein’s? We agree that fossil capital must be dethroned, but we are not sure how far this alternative takes us.

Apr 30, 2024 | tribunemag.co.uk | Joe Guinan |Martin O'Neill

This week’s local elections will be the last significant electoral test for the main political parties before the next general election. Polls indicate that the Conservatives are certain to receive a drubbing, signalling that the end of the road is near for a government that is exhausted and all out of ideas and ambition. Labour will likely be the main beneficiary, ratifying the party’s position as Britain’s government in waiting.

Mar 7, 2024 | tribunemag.co.uk | Joe Guinan |Howard Reed

‘An era can be said to end,’ playwright Arthur Miller, ‘when its basic illusions are exhausted.’ Such exhaustion is palpable in Britain today. Everybody knows that the Thatcherite economic model of the past forty years is failing, with infrastructure crumbling, wages stagnating and public services at breaking point.

Jan 23, 2024 | msn.com | Joe Guinan

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Jan 23, 2024 | tribunemag.co.uk | Joe Guinan

The unfolding crisis in Port Talbot is depressingly familiar. It is a story that has played out over and over again in recent years, from Grangemouth in Scotland to Redcar on Teesside and now once more in South Wales: the devastating impact of plant closures on local economies and communities heavily dependent upon single industries and long battered by deindustrialisation, with no plan to counteract successive waves of disinvestment, displacement, and disempowerment.