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#48 Christine Berry on preparing for a Corbyn government

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🗓️ 16 May 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Christine Berry discusses 'People Get Ready: Preparing for a Corbyn Government' a new book authored by Christine together with Joe Guinan. We spoke about the likely backlash a Corbyn government would face from the business class and transnational finance and what strategies the Labour movement can adopt to defeat its opponents. We also chatted about the possible lessons for the left from the Thatcher government's victory over the unions and the labour movement in the 1980s as well as Labour's programme for economic democracy. You can read an extract from People Get Ready on the Tribune Magazine website: https://tribunemag.co.uk/2019/05/what-a-corbyn-government-would-mean

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My name is Alex Doherty, and today my guest is Christine Berry.

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We spoke about People Get Ready, preparing for

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a Corbyn government, a new book authored by Christine together with Joe Gwinnan, which is published

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by all books. We discussed the likely backlash a Corbyn government would face from the business class

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and what strategies the Labour movement can adopt to defeat its opponents. We also chatted about

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the possible lessons for the left from the Thatcher government's victory over the unions and the Labour movement can adopt to defeat its opponents. We also chatted about the possible lessons

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for the left from the Thatcher government's victory over the unions and the Labour movement in the

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1980s, as well as Labour's programme for economic democracy. You can listen to PTO on iTunes,

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Christine Berry has worked as a parliamentary researcher, was formerly the head of policy and research

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