MICK MCSHANE is roused by a band whose socialism laces every line of every song with commitment and raw passion
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Post-democracy: After the Crises by Colin Crouch
Timely warning about the dangers of neoliberalism as the only game in town
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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
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.
As if this wasn’t disturbing enough, Crouch argues in his new work, his analysis was written before the financial crisis in 2008 and the situation has been deteriorating even further since then.
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