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
Socialist solutions to the climate crisis
Collective action offers the best political outcomes for the reversal of the unmitigated planetary disaster, writes COLIN TURBETT
VOX POPULI: Protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline and Keystone XL Pipeline at the San Francisco Federal Building on January 26 201
MIK SABIERS wallows in a night of political punk and funk that fires both barrels at Trump
Reasonable radicalism, death in Abu Dhabi, locked-room romance, and sleuthing in the Blitz
SIMON DUFF recommends a new album from renowned composer and oud player Anour Brahem.
JAMES WALSH has a great night in the company of basketball players, quantum physicists and the exquisite timing of Rosie Jones
A New Awakening: Adventures In British Jazz 1966 - 1971, G3, and Buck Owens
JAMES WALSH is moved by an exhibition of graphic art that relates horrors that would be much less immediate in other media
Poverty, Pollution & Working Class Solutions
by Richie Venton & Ken Ferguson
Scottish Socialist Party£5.99
THIS new 60-page booklet sets out in well-researched and easily digestible form the massive task we face in dealing with climate change, and how we can achieve lasting solutions.
In the words of the authors, “to tackle the task of combating both the economic and ecological crises facing humanity, we need to identify the scale of the problem, its root causes, the sweeping transformational measures required to combat it, and the social forces required to achieve a clean, green planet, free of poverty and inequality.”
It particular, they argue that climate change has not been caused by us as individual humans. Instead they prove that a global system in place since the onset of the industrial revolution, has always placed profit in a marketplace above the needs of those who create the wealth, leading inevitably to climate catastrophe.
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