What’s in our Dec/Jan issue

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Cover story: Obama, opportunities and obstacles

Change we can achieve
Bill Fletcher Jr reflects on President-elect Obama’s victory and offers a legislative agenda for his first 100 days

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

After the meltdown
With Barack Obama heading for the White House, William Greider, Frances Fox Piven, Doug Henwood, Arun Gupta and Naomi Klein discuss the financial crisis - and what should be done

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Other features

If not capitalism, what?
Leo Panitch, Robin Blackburn, Martin Ryle, Kate Soper, and Michel Bauwens consider alternatives to neoliberalism

What kind of crisis?
Hugo Radice delves through the layers of the financial crisis

The world after Keynes
Stuart Holland looks for a new role for the state

Criticism is not enough
Does the left have an alternative to New Labour? By Jeremy Gilbert

Up in smoke
Derek Wall looks at the many dangers of burning our waste

A rebel with many causes
We pay tribute to Irene Bruegel

Lalit kontinye
Lindsey Collen reports on the legacy of banishment, colonisation and the machinery of war on Diego Garcia

The threat of the good example
Bolivia’s experiment with economic and political democracy needs our solidarity and contains much we can learn from. By Samuel Grove and Pablo Navarrete

Pictorial: Water wars
Photographer Stefano Serra captures scenes from daily life without an adequate water supply in the occupied West Bank

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Culture

Che: A graphic biography
Red Pepper publishes extracts from Spain Rodriguez’s new graphic novel telling the story of Che’s life

A broader Britannia
England’s World Cup qualifying campaign takes fans to some far-flung places, Belarus this year, Kazakhstan and Ukraine in 2009. Mark Perryman argues the case for a fan-led popular internationalism

The patron saint of sandal-wearers
From sexual freedom to recycling, Edward Carpenter cuts a surprisingly modern radical figure. Sheila Rowbotham and Matthew Beaumont write

Booktopia
Jill Robinson

Rearview
Black Panther: Emory Douglas

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Plus all our other regulars

Editorial
Crisis for Christmas

Agony Subcomandauntie

Plattitudes
The world according to Steve Platt

Democracy Now
Wind of change

Temperature gauge
Climate of change

Know your enemy
The oil and gas bank

Under the radar
Shell to Sea

Asylum watch
A fake friend

Natural born rebel
Win one day: Joaquin Nzuzi Mbambi

Guerrilla guide
Unionising your workplace

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