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From the youth climate strikes to the Green New Deal, climate change has moved up the political agenda. Marx’s analysis of capitalism provides the basis for understanding how the system’s destructiveness is driving the climate crisis.

Elaine Graham-Leigh shows how Marx’s ideas explain the climate breakdown and how we can create a society that protects both people and planet. This is a manifesto for system change as well as an account of why humanity faces its greatest crisis.

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My review of a fascinating history of black people in Tudor England.

A ‘real-time’ review, no less:

https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2017/04/02/theakers-quarterly-fiction-59/

A look at the idea’s limitations.

https://www.counterfire.org/articles/opinion/20416-the-problem-with-citizens-assemblies

Can we get there, and would we like it if we did?

https://www.counterfire.org/articles/book-reviews/20396-luxury-communism-utopianism-or-revolutionary

Where that far-right ‘clash of civilisations’ narrative comes from.

https://www.counterfire.org/articles/history/20240-far-right-terrorists-and-the-meaning-of-the-battle-of-tours

I wrote this last year, but it’s still relevant.

https://www.counterfire.org/articles/opinion/19930-the-far-right-grooming-gangs-and-racist-lies

New story! The Night They Sacked New Rome is published in Theaker’s Quarterly Fiction 59, out now. It’s inspired by the 2011 riots and in particular by my young neighbours at the time. It’s about as cheering as my fiction ever is, so check it out.