MICK MCSHANE is roused by a band whose socialism laces every line of every song with commitment and raw passion
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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
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ALEX HALL is disgusted by the misuse of ‘emotional narratives’ to justify uninformed geo-political prejudice
SUE TURNER welcomes a thoughtful, engaging book that lays bare the economic realities of global waste management
JOHN GREEN welcomes an insider account of the achievements and failures of the transition to democracy in Portugal
SIMON PARSONS applauds an imaginative and absorbing updating of Strindberg’s classic
PETER MASON is enthralled by an assembly of objects, ancient and modern, that have lain in the mud of London’s river
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.
While there are chapters on the world of work which take account of “digital capitalism,” precarious working and the gig economy, there are also contributions on ways of living which take account of concerns with environmental sustainability.
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