CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
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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
KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
JAMIE BRITTON recommends this fine analysis of the architectural, ecological and infrastructural destruction of the Gaza Strip
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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