December 2008/January 2009 2008 Archive 

Jill Robinson’s booktopia The eight books she’d take to the ends of the earth with her

The first 100 days: a legislative agenda Bill Fletcher Jr imagines a ‘people’s agenda’ to kick-start the change we need

The world after Keynes Keynes is back in fashion, but his policies did not give to the state – at all levels – the leading role in investment that is now necessary, argues Stuart Holland. What is required is a radical rebalancing of relations between economic and social power, led by democratised state institutions

Criticism is not enough New Labour did not implement its policies of the past decade in a vacuum, says Jeremy Gilbert. The question now is whether the left has an alternative

What kind of crisis? Hugo Radice delves through the layers of the financial crisis and lays out the challenges that any adequate alternatives have to meet

Crisis for Christmas

Rebuilding banking Leo Panitch argues that what is needed is for the banks to become a public utility

Pressing the limits Robin Blackburn says that publicly controlled social funds could play a central role in a transition from a very unequal and crisis-prone world

Technological alternatives Michel Bauwens points to the importance of the possibilities for co-operative, peer-to-peer production opened up by new technologies

The green road to socialism Martin Ryle and Kate Soper say that now is the moment to stop the economy killing the planet

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