MATTHEW HAWKINS applauds a psychotherapist’s disection of William Blake
Post-democracy: After the Crises by Colin Crouch
Timely warning about the dangers of neoliberalism as the only game in town
NEOLIBERAL INTERVENTIONIST: Cambridge Anaytica's CEO Alexander Nix
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
POST-DEMOCRACY is a follow-on from Colin Crouch’s previous book, published in 2003, about the threats to democracy that have been emerging in many advanced capitalist countries.
It argued that democratic structures were being hollowed out, with power increasingly concentrated in wealthy business elites, along with their political counterparts who were backing them. Neoliberalism was becoming the only game in town.
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MARJORIE MAYO welcomes challenging insights and thought-provoking criticisms of a number of widely accepted assumptions on the left
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These are vivid accounts of people’s experiences of far-right violence along with documentation of popular resistance, says MARJORIE MAYO
