MATTHEW HAWKINS applauds a psychotherapist’s disection of William Blake
Beyond Market Dystopia: New Ways of Living, edited by Leo Panitch and Greg Albo
Cogent alternatives to neoliberal agenda
WAY TO GO: Jeremy Corbyn launches Labour’s Green New Deal last December
New releases from Christina Alden and Alex Patterson, Odette Michell, Clementine Lovell
JOHN GREEN is fascinated by a very readable account of Britain’s involvement in South America
Strip cartoons used to be the bread and butter of newspapers and they have been around for centuries. MICHAL BONCZA asks our own Paul Tanner about which bees are in his bonnet
GORDON PARSONS acknowledges the authority with which Sarah Kane’s theatrical justification for suicide has resonance today
RON JACOBS welcomes a timely homage to one of the IWW and CPUSA’s most effective orators
WITH its focus on new ways of living, Beyond Market Dystopia posits different ways of looking beyond the gloom of neoliberalism and the growth of far-right political influences in Britain and internationally.
Yet this latest publication from Socialist Register is not about promoting a set of utopian dreams. Rather, the editors’ aim is to identify “alternative ways of living in the dystopian present” by exploring questions about social reproduction, ecology and production and advancing prefigurative ways of living and working.
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MARJORIE MAYO welcomes challenging insights and thought-provoking criticisms of a number of widely accepted assumptions on the left
MARJORIE MAYO recommends a disturbing book that seeks to recover traces of the past that have been erased by Israeli colonialism
MARJORIE MAYO recommends an accessible and unsettling novel that uses a true incident of death in the Channel to raise questions of wider moral responsibility
These are vivid accounts of people’s experiences of far-right violence along with documentation of popular resistance, says MARJORIE MAYO
