Preston, Jeremy Corbyn’s model town

Preston, Jeremy Corbyn’s model town

by Duncan Robinson

October 18, 2017

In The Economist, a look at Preston, England, where a Cleveland experiment at cooperative community development has inspired a major effort to localize the municipalize economy—one which is increasingly at the center of the economic agenda in Labour’s platform under Jeremy Corbyn.

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