Hilary Wainwright Livres

Exploring themes of empowerment and grassroots activism, the editor of "Red Pepper" embarks on a journey from Manchester to Newcastle, LA, and Brazil. This quest highlights various community groups striving to reclaim power from governmental control, showcasing their innovative approaches and resilience in the face of challenges. Through these diverse locales, the narrative emphasizes the importance of local movements in fostering change and building stronger communities.

Millions passionately desire a viable alternative to austerity and neoliberalism, but they are sceptical of traditional leftist top-down state solutions.

Long out of print, this book tells the detailed story of the Lucas workers determination to defend their jobs, how they came up with a plan to convert from largely military production to the development of socially useful products. The workforce had the skills and the will to make the plan work; management, ever sceptical, retrenched; government obstructed; even the official trade union response was unhelpful. This is a riveting political story and with timely lessons for all those concerned with arms conversion, climate change, alternative models of work and the need to move to an era of socially useful production. This new edition features Hilary Wainwright s thoughts after 40 years.