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Hilary Wainwright is co-editor of Red Pepper and Fellow of the Transnational Institute.

Articles by Hilary Wainwright

Something rotten in the ANC state

Hilary Wainwright 14 December 2012

The palaces of President Zuma and the massacre of miners symbolise how the gulf between rich and poor has widened in the eighteen years since the African National Congress came to power in South Africa. On the eve of the ANC conference, a report on growing disillusionment among former supporters.

Greece: Syriza shines a light

Hilary Wainwright 29 August 2012

Like a swan moving forward with relaxed confidence while paddling furiously beneath the surface, Syriza, the radical left coalition that could become the next government of Greece, is facing enormous challenges calmly but with intensifed activity.

'An excess of democracy'

Hilary Wainwright 24 February 2012

Occupy and the direct action movements of today have much in common with the radical movements of the 1960s/70s. Can the new generation move beyond the successes and failures of the past, to develop an alternative political economy?

Workers are agents of economic change: so why isn't Labour listening to the unions?

Hilary Wainwright 16 September 2011

Ed Miliband is following in New Labour's footsteps and keeping distance from the unions. But within the labour movement lie the skills, know-how and creativity needed to discover economic alternatives and make change happen

From Ward 25: personal notes on the destruction of the NHS

Hilary Wainwright 10 February 2011

Joyce Wainwright died aged 88 in a lively and friendly acute admission ward on 4 February, surrounded by her family. Here, her daughter Hilary reports on her encounter with the NHS, and reflects on the planned reforms.

No end: the crisis of Brazil's Workers' Party

Hilary Wainwright

“When there is such an overwhelming disaster and you see yourself as part of this disaster, you begin to question your whole life. Why so many years of sacrifice and struggle?” Congressman Fernando Gabeira expresses the feelings of many petistas – members or supporters of the Brazilian Partido dos Trabalhadores (Workers’ Party / PT) – when they heard that the party they built or supported as an instrument of democratic, ethical politics, was governing on the basis of systematic corruption.

The Brazilian left is in a state of profound shock and confusion. Over the past two decades, hundreds of thousands of people have devoted their lives to creating the PT as a principled and forceful instrument of social justice against one of the most corrupt and unjust ruling elites in the world. Now they are being forced to come to terms with their own party’s lack of principle.

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