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Realising a Left alternative

Daniel Taghioff (SOAS): Red Green Politics and the Articulation of Progress. From LookLeft Forum, Erik Olin Wright on realising a Left alternative. Beyond capitalism: Luke Cooper and Simon Hardy on the future of radical politics. Did the Left win the twentieth century? Prominent thinkers, politicians and writers to take the long view. After neoliberalism: Stuart Hall, Doreen Massey and Michael Rustin on analysing the present. What is to be done with the actually existing Marxist left? An interview with Jodi Dean, author of The Communist Horizon. Walter Laqueur on the many faces of neo-Marxism. Mark Harvey and Norman Geras on Marx’s economy and beyond. For the Left, it will no longer do simply to be anti-austerity. What we need today is a Thatcher of the left: A leader who would repeat Thatcher’s gesture in the opposite direction, transforming the entire field of presuppositions shared by today’s political elite.