New releases from Joe Wilkes, Honey and the Bear, and Hannah James and Toby Kuhn
Alpha City: How London was captured by the super-rich
by Rowland Atkinson
(Verso, £13.59)
THIS book, essential reading before Covid-19, is even more so now.
In it, Rowland Atkinson vividly describes how the super-rich have distorted the socioeconomic and physical landscape of London, but the most important argument goes beyond the fate of one city.
CAROL WILCOX argues for the proper implementation of the land value tax, which could see unused plots sold off and landlords priced out of landlordism, potentially resolving the housing and planning crises
Climate justice and workers’ rights movements are uniting to make the rich pay for our transition to a green economy, writes assistant general secretary of PCS JOHN MOLONEY, ahead of a major demonstration on September 20
JOE GILL appreciates a lucid demonstration of how capital today is an outgrowth of the colonial economy
RICHARD BURGON MP points to the recent relative success of widespread opposition to the Labour leadership’s regressive policies as the blueprint for exacting the changes required to build a fairer society


