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KAFILA - COLLECTIVE EXPLORATIONS SINCE 2006 
To the Iron Lady who started the Falklands War as an effective diversion tool from the trouble raging at home over the (just)protests of the trade unionists. To the lady who was one of the closest friends of the Dictator Augusto Pinochet and oversaw his terror tactics and who with Reagan shrewedly heralded the Neo-Liberal regime.I am glad you are no more ….
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There are celebrations happening in the UK and a protest from none other than Tony Blair. I am sure that he fears something like that may happen after him!!
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“Margaret Thatcher’s infamous quote, that there is “no such thing [as society]…there are individual men and women and there are families” reminds me of the Neo-Liberal terror she unleashed on people & against Labour Unions and with her Mentor Milton Friedman, who propagated Market Fundamentalism, as perfect Laissez faire. Her statement was the manifesto of neo-liberal free market mania(Destruction of Collectivities for the sake of profit) which was injected by “Chicago Boys/Girls” across different countries which resulted in Thatcher to create hysteria of ‘Nationalism’ to for “just wars” and this act also legitimized her as ‘Iron lady’. Time to celebrate the Fall of Terror lady & Agent of Neo-liberalism !!!!
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As someone who has been writing of the violence that has been unleashed through the neoliberal regime, and who has a keen interest in researching the ways in which our ideas of development are infected and inflected by neoliberalism, its been a happy few days after the death of Maggie Thatcher. Here in the UK, I have found academics, especially those researching work/employment/unions rejoicing in her death. There has been a petition for curatiling State expenses on her funeral, on inviting tenders and outsourcing the contract to the lowest private bidder for conducting her funeral. I think its quite amusing to watch it and listen to it.
The sad part is that while Thatcher is dead, Thatcherism continues here in the UK through the present day Tory government with its endless cuts and taxes, while bringing the taxes down on the rich from 50 to 45 percent. But more than that, it worries me that agencies like the DFID continue to sponsor and promise more neoliberalism as the solution to more complex questions of rural and urban development, and of dismantling and further weakening crucial state functions through its privatisation and recourse to the expert (private) consultant,
And I wonder if we should hold off the rejoicing and celebrate when Thatcherism is dead, after all!
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