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Football fans have shown how to take on corporate power and win | Owen Jones

If the age of There Is No Alternative has an ethos, it is this. Elected governments no longer have any levers to pull: their powers have been usurped by multinational corporations with no respect for borders, and politicians can merely surf passively on the choppy waters of the markets. Collective action from within civil society to secure lasting reforms has been permanently neutered, because governments lack the power to concede, and the fragmentation of society has reduced us all to isolated individuals looking after our own.

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