ANGUS REID urges us to understand the persecution of Jason Arday from a political and historical perspective, and to see the victim in human terms
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
Re-releases of the classics Gypsy Rhumba and Buena Vista Social Club, and a stunning album by Palestinian artist Faris Ishaq
Nothing, says ANDY HEDGECOCK, can rescue this undistinguished amalgam of ponderous melodrama and shallow philosophical speculation
JAMIE BRITTON invites readers to visit 3,500 locals as part of a marathon artistic pub crawl
JOHN GREEN welcomes a valuable and incisive analysis of a world become hyperpolitical but without the mass movement institutions to represent it
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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