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The End of Industry by John Myers
Ron's rages are sincere and — according to his wife — healthily cathartic. But can these splenetic outbursts loosen the grip of capitalism at its most monstrous?
ANGUS REID considers the power of the podcast as a vehicle for consensus building in opposition to mainstream media narratives
GLENN FOSBRAEY recommends a biography worth reading for both existing George Michael fans and those yet to be converted
FRANCIS DEVINE introduces a new collection of essays that draws on Pease McKenna’s example to indicate future paths for the movement
KEVIN DONNELLY and MARIA DUARTE review Shoot the People, The Last One For The Road, Rosebush Pruning, and Moana
JAMES WALSH recommends an exceptional documentary about the experience of Western doctors in Gaza
FOLLOWING the collapse of socialism in eastern Europe, back in the early 1990s that false prophet of the neoliberal establishment Francis Fukuyama announced “the end of history” and the universalisation of Western liberal democracy as the ultimate in human governance.
He was riding on what appeared to be a tidal wave of global capitalist advance — Fukuyama wasn’t prescient enough to see the 2008 crash coming.
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