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Book SynopsisIs social democracy in a terminal condition in Europe? In this book, the authors examine the fortunes of social democracy in western and east central Europe and the policy challenges in economic policy, labour markets, social welfare, public services, integration and decentralisation.Table of ContentsPreface; 1. The Crisis of Social Democracy, Michael Keating and David McCrone; 2. The Long Depression, the Great Crash and Socialism in Western Europe, Donald Sassoon; 3. Social Democracy in Crisis: outlining the trends in Western Europe, David McCrone and Michael Keating; 4. The Positions and Fortunes of Social Democratic Parties in East Central Europe, Milada Anna Vachudova; 5. Rethinking Public Expenditure from a Social Democratic Perspective, David Heald; 6. Social Democracy in Crisis? What Crisis?, Bo Rothstein and Sven Steinmo; 7. Do the Fading Electoral Fortunes of the Swedish Social Democrats Signal the Erosion of Swedish Social Democracy?, Henry Milner; 8. Multiculturalism, Right Wing Populism and the Crisis of Social Democracy, Susi Meret and Birte Siim; 9. Labour Markets, Welfare States and the Contemporary Dilemmas of European Social Democracy, Martin Rhodes; 10. Class Politics and the Social Investment Welfare State, Colin Crouch; 11. Labour, Skills and Education in Modern Socio economic Development: Can There be a Social Democratic Economic and Industrial Policy in a Globalised Economy?, Ulrich Hilpert and Desmond Hickie; 12. From Single Market to Social Market Economy: Is There Room for Solidarity? Yves Meny; 13. Social Democracy and Security, Neil Walker; 14. Multilevel Social Democracy: Centralisation and Decentralisation, Michael Keating; Conclusion, Michael Keating and David McCrone; Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisThis book presents a distinctive reading of inter-war Scottish politics, reinterpreting the consequences of the expanded electorate after 1918 by focusing on changing perceptions of the radical political culture of urban Scotland.

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Book SynopsisMark Devenney engages with the politics of the proper, propriety and property from a post-foundational perspective. He argues that this triad is central to understanding the maintenance of global inequality, both economic and political. He characterises democratic politics as improper, against current trends of thinking of it as a regime.

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the historical emergence of the council system in Russia and Germany by the end of the First World War, reconstructing the intellectual history of the council democracy in 20th century political theory.

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Book SynopsisExamines how the control of land affects production, profit, prices and inequality in today's cities

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Book SynopsisHong Kong cinema has been a pre-eminent form of local entertainment and a site of ideological contentions propelled by colonial, national and international politics at different historical junctures. The Other Side of Glamour is a study of the historical development of the left-wing film establishment in Hong Kong.

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Book SynopsisBridges the gap between social and environmental critiques of capitalism In the nineteenth century, Karl Marx, inspired by the German chemist Justus von Liebig, argued that capitalism's relation to its natural environment was that of a robbery system, leading to an irreparable rift in the metabolism between humanity and nature. In the twenty-first century, these classical insights into capitalism's degradation of the earth have become the basis of extraordinary advances in critical theory and practice associated with contemporary ecosocialism. In The Robbery of Nature, John Bellamy Foster and Brett Clark, working within this historical tradition, examine capitalism's plundering of nature via commodity production, and how it has led to the current anthropogenic rift in the Earth System.

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Book SynopsisBrian Morris reaffirms, with an attitude of critical sympathy, the contemporary relevance of Kropotkin as a political and moral philosopher and as a pioneering social ecologist.

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Book SynopsisDriven from their homes in Russia, Poland, and Romania by pogroms and poverty, many Jews who went to Canada in the wave of immigration after the 1905 Russian revolution were committed radicals. This book brings to life the rich and multi-layered lives of a dissident political community, their shared experiences and community-building cultural proj

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Book SynopsisWhen, in 2013, the Daily Mail labeled Ralph Miliband "The Man Who Hated Britain," a diverse host rallied to his defense. Those who had worked with him - from both left and right - praised his work and character. He was lauded as "one of the best-known academic Marxists of his generation" and a leading figure of the New Left. Class War Conservatism collects together his most significant political essays and shows the scope and brilliance of his thinking. Ranging from the critical anatomy of capitalism to a clear-eyed analysis of the future of socialism in Britain, this selection shows Miliband as an independent and prescient thinker of great insight. Throughout, his writing is a passionate and forcefully argued demand for social justice and a better future.Trade ReviewA veritable giant of a man who had an almost unique capacity to understand-and explain-the world in which we live. -- Tony BennAn inspiring teacher of politics and an internationally renowned figure on the British Left. * Daily Telegraph *A Miliband speech was always a treat; alternately sarcastic and scholarly, witty and vicious. -- Tariq AliA beacon on the international Left. He epitomized what it meant to be a creative and independent socialist intellectual, and he provided consistent leadership in defining the issues for critical engagement. -- Leo PanitchHis whole effort is to render the language of socialism in terms of the needs of the here and now. -- Raphael Samuel

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Book SynopsisWhy do patriarchal systems survive? In this groundbreaking work of feminist theory, Nancy Folbre examines the contradictory effects of capitalist development. She explains why the work of caring for others is under-valued and under-rewarded in today's global economy, calling attention to the organisation of childrearing, the care of other dependants, and the inheritance of assets. Upending conventional definitions of the economy based only on the market, Folbre emphasizes the production of human capabilities in families and communities and the social reproduction of group solidarities. Highlighting the complexity of hierarchical systems and their implications for political coalitions, The Rise and Decline of Patriarchal Systems sets a new feminist agenda for the twenty-first century.Trade Reviewan outstandingly provocative book about the economics of care and reciprocity(praise for The Invisible Heart) * New York Times *original, challenging, and illuminating ... ought to change the way we think about the economy, about economics, and about the family (praise for The Invisible Heart) * The Independent Review, A Journal of Political Economy *Folbre makes an important contribution to the discussion of what our society could be, and her humor and insight elevate her book above mere political diatribe.(Praise for The Invisible Heart) * Publishers Weekly *A lively survey of economic thought from the late seventeenth century to the present... A thought-provoking and entertaining read. (Praise for Greed, Lust and Gender) -- Katie Barclay * Women's History Network Magazine. *[praise for Who Pays for the Kids] Nancy Folbre focuses on questions that most economists never think about: how and why people form overlapping groups that influence and limit what they want, how they may behave, and what they get. She has sharp and plausible things to say about group solidarity and group conflict and how they have affected the workings of economic institutions. Anyone would be a better economist, or just a clearer thinker, after reading this book. -- Robert M. Solow, Professor of Economics, MIT, and Nobel Laureate in Economics[Praise for Who Pays for the Kids] Nancy Folbre, offers a provocative rejoinder to standard economic analyses that focus primarily on market forces and wage labor, thereby marginalizing women and children and devaluing the work they perform in the home and community. * The Women's Review of Books *A beautifully written summation of the profound ideas of a feminist political economist at the peak of her powers. This is now the go-to book for anyone wanting to understand the complicated intersections of patriarchy with economy, society and polity. Folbre's incredibly broad sweep offers deep conceptual and historical analyses, and also offers many new nuggets of wisdom. This is a book destined to become a classic: to read, re-read and share widely. -- Jayati Ghosh, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New DelhiAs one of the world's leading feminist economists, Nancy Folbre has always been deeply engaged in trying to understand how intersecting forms of hierarchical injustice can be mutually reinforcing, to the detriment of the many. In The Rise and Decline of Patriarchal Systems Folbre brings together her vast range of knowledge and experience to knit together a general theory of social change that enlarges the economic to encompass patriarchal institutions, cooperation and conflict, systems and structures, and actors and actions, so as to demonstrate how historical and contemporary structures of collective power create unjust interlocking hierarchies. The ambition behind The Rise and Decline of Patriarchal Systems is breathtaking in its audacity: to create nothing less than a new academic field, intersectional political economy. That Folbre largely succeeds in doing so is remarkable. This book is a tour de force. -- Haroon Akram-Lodhi, author of Hungry for ChangeDrawing on and challenging aspects of neoliberal and Marxist economic traditions-and showing how patriarchal, capitalist, and other systems interact-Folbre explores how gender gaps have evolved worldwide from the age of hunter-gatherers to the 21st century, when people tend "to view commitments to the care of others as optional lifestyle decisions rather than as socially necessary." She effectively demonstrates how the undervaluation of unpaid care work has profound consequences for U.S. families and the economy as a whole. * Kirkus Reviews *Skilfully weaving together key insights from different theoretical traditions and evidence from history and contemporary life, Nancy Folbre provides us with an ambitious but eminently readable account of the rise and, hopefully, decline of patriarchy. * Naila Kabeer, Professor of Gender and Development, London School of Economics *This eloquent and imaginative book should be read by everyone concerned to contest the many intersecting forms of inequality, exploitation and oppression that shape our world. It analyses multiple forms of cooperation and conflict, choice and constraint, putting the care of human beings centre stage, noting that 'capitalism may be manly, but it is not self-sufficient'. It offers a wide ranging historical narrative of how some progressive changes have been won and hope for a future in which we can build solidarities to do so again. -- Diane Elson, author of Rethinking Economic Policy for Social JusticeThis careful application of intersectional feminism to economic theory yields ample food for thought. * Publishers Weekly *

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Book SynopsisRevolution in the Air is the definitive study of how radicals from the sixties movements embraced twentieth-century Marxism, and what movements of dissent today can learn from the legacies of Lenin, Mao and Che.Trade ReviewIt should be required reading for those interested in the modern history of social movements and for radicals of my generation who are trying to find out what went wrong. * Los Angeles Times *The breadth of Elbaum's knowledge ... marks this book as an absolutely first-rate work of political scholarship. * Village Voice *Truly a superb work of scholarship that raises all the right questions ... * Radical History *If you still believe sixties radicalism was nothing more than youthful middle-class confusion or parochial identity politics, then open these pages and dig. -- Robin D. G. KelleyYou can disagree with almost everything Elbaum writes ... and still value the clarity with which he poses the questions relevant to an effective anti-racist, feminist and class-conscious revolutionary movement in the 21st century. * Marx & Philosophy *

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Book SynopsisIn the Summer of 1973, workers occupied the Lip watch and clock factory, sparking a national cause and controversy. The Lip occupation and self-management experience captured the imagination of the Left in France and internationally, as a living example of the spirit of May '68. In Opening the Gates, Donald Reid chronicles the history of this struggle. Beginning with the early stirrings of worker radicalism in 1968, Reid's meticulously researched narrative details the nationally publicised conflict of 1973, the second bankruptcy and occupation of 1976 and the conversion of Lip into a group of cooperatives operating into the 1980s.Trade ReviewCompelling -- John Harris * Guardian *Donald Reid's magisterial reconstruction of the Lip "affair" of the 1970s restores a crucial and neglected storyline about the long 1968. -- Julian Bourg, Boston University * H-France Salon *Donald Reid's book, carefully documented with a mass of detail, is to be welcomed for reminding us of an enthralling page from working-class history. -- Ian Birchall * rs21 *A must-read for historians, Reid's study will also open up for general readers the atmosphere of a time so far in the past that it is forgotten, yet so near that history has yet to remember it. -- William M. Reddy, Duke UniversitySome fifty years on from 1968, Donald Reid rightly identifies Lip 1973 as an important landmark in "the last widespread expression in France of a belief in the creativity and moral universe of workers engaged in labor conflicts as the driving force of social transformation." Reid's careful reconstruction of the Lip factory occupation, using an impressive array of archival materials and oral history interviews, vividly recreates the hopes, the excitement, the vicissitudes, and the disappointments of this turning point in French labor history. A must read for historians, Reid's study will also open up for general readers the atmosphere of a time so far in the past that it is forgotten, yet so near that history has yet to remember it. -- William M. Reddy, William T. Laprade Professor of History and Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Duke UniversityThis gripping and beautifully researched book may well be the definitive work on the Lip Affaire - that heroic struggle of French workers who in 1973-74 transformed their company into a combative self-administered community. Donald Reid's encompassing reconstruction is not only empathetic and political; it is also a significant contribution to French social history "from below" between May 68 and the beginning of Mitterand's presidency in 1981. -- Marcel van der Linden, International Institute of Social HistoryPraise for The Miners of Decazeville:Few books that I have read provide such a thorough and well-documented demonstration of the dynamic interrelationship between capitalism and the state and the complexity of the challenge presented to labor in seeking to struggle against their combined force. This is illuminating history. -- Christopher Johnson * The Journal of Social History *What stands out is [Opening the Gates's] thrilling retelling of an occupation and its reminder to us that there are many different ways to live and work. * Socialist Review *Although I have been living in France for the past ten years, I regret to say that the Lip Affair was unknown to me until now, but having read Donald Reid's description of what transpired, I can understand why. It is simply stunning how the mass media arbitrarily select those events in society which they want to highlight, and those which they want to ignore 'in the interests of the viewer.' I am convinced that the 'gate-keeper' policy of the mass media is one of the primary reasons why the public in general today remain detached from many key issues facing the planet, including consumerism, social inequality, and the onrushing environmental disaster. The multiple issues still confronting women today are of course foremost in my mind when I write this. The ways in which the Lip workers-as Reid describes-confronted their problems, including their strategies in dealing with the media, are therefore truly inspiring, and this book clearly deserves the widest possible dissemination across the social and political spectrum. -- Peter Watkins, Film DirectorDonald Reid has not just written a masterpiece of modern labor history. His brilliant narrative about the Lip workers who ran their own factory makes clear that they were blazing a new direction for the left. Although their experiment in self-management did not survive, it should inspire anyone who believes in the democratization of everyday life. When workers in the middle of France leaped beyond being just employees or aggrieved strikers, they showed that another world might indeed be possible. -- Michael Kazin, professor of history at Georgetown University and editor, DissentDon Reid's history of the protracted struggle of workers in the Lip watch factory is the most comprehensive and imaginative account that exists in English or French. What one worker called "the perfume of self-management" wafts through the pages of this book, bringing alive the movement that defined social upheaval in France in the long 1960s. -- Kristin Ross, author of Communal LuxuryIn 1973, French workers at the Lip watch factory in Besançon occupied their bankrupt plant and launched a movement that became a cause célèbre, attracting the attention of politicians, intellectuals, religious leaders, labor organizers, and ordinary citizens. In this magnificently detailed book, historian Donald Reid traces the origins of the movement and follows it through to its dénouement. It will surely be the definitive work on what may have been the last attempt by workers anywhere in the West to demonstrate that self-management was not a pipe dream but a genuine alternative to actually existing capitalism. -- Arthur Goldhammer, Translator and Senior Affiliate at Harvard's Center for European StudiesSophisticated ... a major contribution to the history of workers' control. * French History *For anyone wishing to learn about France (and, in fact, Europe) in the 1970s, Opening the Gates will be required reading for years to come. -- Gerd Rainer-Horn * Journal of Modern History *Don Reid's excellent book is happily something of a "throw-back" study to the 1970s -- John Merriman * The Historian *Opening the Gates is a lasting and remarkable account of French labor -- George Ross * French Politics, Culture & Society *

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Book SynopsisAmbalavaner Sivanandan was one of Britain's most influential radical thinkers. As Director of the Institute of Race Relations for forty years, his work changed the way that we think about race, racism, globalisation and resistance. Communities of Resistance collects together some of his most famous essays, including his excoriating polemic on Thatcherism and the left "The Hokum of New Times".This updated edition contains a new preface by Gary Younge and an introduction by Arun Kundnani.Trade ReviewYou can agree or not agree with Sivanandan (I agree nearly all the time) but what you certainly can't ignore is the voice with which he writes. It has the warmth of the passion of those who know they will never live to wield power, and the clarity of a demand for justice that cannot be silenced. His is a voice that relays the voices of the poor, the salt of the earth and the proud. The colour of his voice cannot be dismissed. Its unique tone carries a reminder of what wealth inevitably loses, of what power based upon injustice fears. Read, listen... -- John Berger

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Book SynopsisThe remarkable advance of "Corbynism" did not emerge from nowhere. It is the product of developments in socialist and working-class politics over the past forty years and more. The Thatcher era witnessed a wholesale attack on the postwar consensus and welfare state, through a regime of deregulation, attacks on the unions, privatisations, and globalisation. However, at the same time, there existed a persistent resistance to the growing powers of neo-liberalism. This side of the story is rarely told as it was considered to be a history of defeat. Yet out of this struggle emerged a thoroughly modern socialism.This book is essential reading for those who want to know where Corbynism comes from: the policies, personalities and moments of resistance that have produced this new horizon. This includes the story of power struggles within the Labour Party, and the eventual defeat of New Labour. The movements outside it-unions, feminists groups, anti-fascists activists, anti-war protestors-that have driven the policies of the movement forward. And the powerful influence of international groups that have shaped the potential for a global progressive politics.Trade ReviewOf all the analyses of Labour's astonishing 2017 General Election performance, Andrew Murray's provides a detailed explanation of the road the British left has taken to reach touching distance of power. This is a brilliant book - a must read not just for academics but for every party activist. -- Len McCluskey, General Secretary of Unite the UnionAn in-depth examination of how a full-blooded version of socialism moved from the fringes to the centre of British political life. * Choice Magazine *This studious and succinct account of the politics of the left is essential reading for any socialist navigating the dangers of political life as progressive ideas are tested in the real world. * Morning Star *For insights into the Corbyn mindset [this] new book could be invaluable for those unfamiliar with Labour's enduring civil war. . . .The enduring theme is how the left was underestimated. -- Jim Packard * Financial Times *Uniquely insightful in its appraisal of both the prospects and limitations facing the Corbyn project . . .A rich and needed intervention into the mass movement currently pushing for a humane society in Britain.' -- Marcus Barnett * Jacobin *A lucid, perspicuous account of how Thatcherism - and its subsequent enablers under New Labour - broke the progressive left, and how the left returned from the margins of political life, the book is an honest reckoning with both the promises and limitations of socialism -- Gavin Jacobson * New Statesman *Excellent...you should read this book because it is not just charting the history of the recent past, but it also charts the likely course of events in the future * Counterfire *

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Book SynopsisEconomics for the Many, edited and with an introduction by Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer John McDonnell, features contributions from the participants in his New Economics conferences, including Barry Gardiner, Ann Pettifor, Prem Sikka, and Guy Standing. It covers topics from housing, public ownership, and fairer international trading systems to industrial policy for the twenty-first century and how to tackle tax avoidance and regional imbalances. Together, the essays in this volume lay out a vision for a new economics, one that works for the many, not the few.

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Book SynopsisAutumn/Winter 2022 issue of Salvage, featuring Richard Seymour, Alva Gotby, Nisha Kapoor, and Eric BlancGive Dust a Tongue includes an essay on class dysphoria by Richard Seymour, and an essay by Jairus Banaji on Russian capitalism today, Nisha Kapoor on data in the landscapes of capital and the state, Alva Gotby on the labour of lesbian life, Tony Wood on the invasion of Ukraine one year on, James Meadway on the end of industrial capitalism, Gargi Bhattacharyya on imperial decay, and Jamie Allinson on fossil sovereignty.With fiction by Gracie Mae Bradley, poetry by Jackqueline Frost and photos by Richard Seymour.

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Book SynopsisFrom 9/11 to the Anglo-American occupation of Iraq, the eurozone crisis to the Brexit vote, the Great Recession to the Arab Spring, the rise of China to the annexation of Crimea, the passage from Obama to Trump and Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the London-based New Left Review has offered a series of sharply critical editorials, combining argument with analysis-radical antidotes to the self-serving accounts of the Anglophone press. Contraventions brings together a selection of NLR's key political writings, covering capitalist boom and bust, the changing forms of American hegemony, the combined and uneven development of world powers, the domestic politics of the US and UK and multiple revolts from below, at the ballot box or in the streets. Bookended by broader surveys of the political-intellectual conjuncture, these essays dismantle mainstream narratives and anatomize the ideologies, institutions and on-the-ground operations of liberal-imperial rule.Contraventions includes texts by Perry Anderson, Tariq Ali, Mike Davis, Susan Watkins, Alexander Cockburn, Peter Gowan, Tony Wood, JoAnn Wypijewski, Tom Hazeldine and Dylan Riley.Trade Review"Since its inception, the review has been an invaluable source of reasoned analysis and insight into critical issues of policy, economy, society, and contemporary culture. A proud record to carry forward into difficult times ahead."– Noam Chomsky"The biography of the review cannot be reduced to a formula: its experience so far has been too rich and too contradictory. It is up to date without being merely journalistic; it is scholarly but unscarred by citation-compulsion; and it is analytical about the long-term forces at work in politics rather than obsessed by the spume of the latest wavelet of manoeuvring and posturing. That's what I admire above all about NLR: its intellectual seriousness – its magnificently strenuous attempt to understand, to analyse, to theorise."– Stefan Collini, GuardianTable of ContentsIntroduction by Susan WatkinsI. A GLOBAL HEGEMONY1. Renewals - Perry Anderson2. Our Herods - Tariq Ali3. Testing Formula Two - Perry Anderson4. Flames of New York - Mike Davis5. Force and Consent - Perry Anderson 6. Vichy on the Tigris - Susan Watkins7. Whatever Happened to the Anti-War Movement? - Alexander Cockburn8. US:UN - Peter Gowan9. The Nuclear Non-Protestation Treaty - Susan Watkinsii. CRISIS IN THE HEARTLANDS10. Shifting Sands - Susan Watkins11. Good Riddance - Tony Wood12. On the Concatenation in the Arab World - Perry Anderson13. Spring Confronts Winter - Mike Davis14. Presentism? Reply to T. J. Clark - Susan Watkins15. Annexations - Susan Watkins16. The State of the Union - Susan Watkins17. Passing the Baton - Perry Anderson18. The Politics of Insecurity - JoAnn Wypijewski19. Revolt of the Rustbelt - Tom Hazeldine20. What Is Trump? - Dylan Riley21. America versus China - Susan Watkins22. Five Wars in One - Susan Watkins

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Book SynopsisBack in 1997, New Labour came to power amid much talk of regenerating the inner cities left to rot under successive Conservative governments. Over the next decade, British cities became the laboratories of the new enterprise economy: glowing monuments to finance, property speculation, and the service industry-until the crash.In A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain, Owen Hatherley sets out to explore the wreckage-the buildings that epitomized an age of greed and aspiration. From Greenwich to Glasgow, Milton Keynes to Manchester, Hatherley maps the derelict Britain of the 2010s: from riverside apartment complexes, art galleries and amorphous interactive "centers," to shopping malls, call centers and factories turned into expensive lofts. In doing so, he provides a mordant commentary on the urban environment in which we live, work and consume. Scathing, forensic, bleakly humorous, A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain is a coruscating autopsy of a get-rich-quick, aspirational politics, a brilliant, architectural "state we're in."Trade ReviewAngry, fiercely funny ... . Essential reading for anyone who ever feels their blood start to boil when they hear the word 'regeneration.' -- Hari Kunzru, author of My RevolutionsAn exhilarating book. Owen Hatherley brings to bear a quizzing eye, venomous wit, supple prose, refusal to curry favor, rejection of received ideas, exhaustive knowledge and all-round bolshiness. He travels, self-consciously, in the famous footsteps of J. B. Priestley and Ian Nairn, and there can be no higher praise than to suggest that he proves himself their peer. This book is as much a marker for an era as English Journey and Outrage were. -- Jonathan Meades, author of Incest and Morris DancingHatherley's footloose narrative is driven by a heartfelt anger ... as well as a laudable desire to open people's eyes to the true value of their cities. -- PD Smith * Guardian *A book of finespun rage ... a book that had to be written. Wittily, bitterly, pithily, mostly accurately, Hatherley tells it how it is. -- Rowan Moore * Observer *This surgical evisceration of the cityscapes of Blairism is required reading. -- Hugh Pearman * RIBA Journal *Wonderfully provocative. -- Rupert Christiansen * Daily Telegraph *Hatherley is always entirely clear about his personal standpoint, so his criticisms never seem unjustified ... A rather bleak undercurrent is tempered by Hatherley's often witty observations and easy-going prose style. * PopMatters *This is a different kind of Heritage Britain, the kind that the tourists don't usually get to see ... this is also the real Britain, and Hatherley is the most informed, opinionated and acerbic guide you could wish for. -- Hugh Pearman * Sunday Times *Roomy and intellectually sophisticated.. It is bold and original, and it may change how you see British cities. -- Andy Beckett * Guardian *This is fear and loathing in Lost Albion riffed by a quainter version of Hunter S Thompson. -- Jay Merrick * Independent *Painted with a raging energy that is exhilarating ... [It's] political, sinister, sometimes funny. -- Gwyn Griffiths * Morning Star *A serious left-field attempt to provoke thought and argument ... This is an important book that is entirely worthy of the arguments it sets out to provoke. -- Patrick Wright * Architecture Today *Hatherley deserves to be widely read ... he has brought a welcome freshness and honesty to architectural criticsm. -- Chris Hall * Icon *The latest heir to Ruskin ... Hatherley blasts the architectural style of New Labour Britain. Whatever your pet-hate, Hatherley will probably have some enjoyably cruel words for it. -- Boyd Tonkin * Independent *

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Book SynopsisThe perfect stocking filler, Secret Santa gift or conversation starter for Corbyn haters and lovers this Christmas! This is the man In His Own Words. This is Corbyn on Party Politics, Vision & Principles, Defiance, Leadership and World Affairs, plus a special chapter to capture all his Observations. And if The Little Book of Corbyn isn't enough, you can collect, compare and contrast the wisdom of Trump, Boris and Corbyn with the full set of in His Own Word titles. Use them to start a lively debate*, to induce a case of riotous laughter, to inspire or to keep you entertained on the loo. *Orange Hippo! publishing takes no responsibility for debates that get out of hand at the pub quiz, office Christmas party or anywhere else. Please read, think and debate responsibly. Table of ContentsIntroduction. Party Politics. Vision & Principles. Defiance. Leadership. World Affairs. Observations.

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