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The gang find out what it means to be ruled by the people, with music from Crass and the Scratch Orchestra.

Historian Adam Tooze has argued that COVID-19 is the first economic crisis of the Anthropocene, a term encapsulating the idea that human impact on the

by Chris Horner The world we live in is changing, and our politics must change with it. We are in what has been called the ‘anthropocene’: the period in which human activity is threatening the ecosystem on which we all depend. Catastrophic climate change threatens our very survival. Yet our political class seems unable to take the necessary steps to avert it. Add to that the familiar and pressing problems of massive inequality, exploitation, systemic racism and job insecurity due to automation and the relocation of production to cheaper labour markets, and we have a truly global and multi...

Verso Books, 2018 Climate Leviathan is a jarring, dissatisfying read. Its best arguments are left undeveloped. What should have been tangential points are expanded upon in bland, circuitous detail. Its central proposition is not supported by strong evidence. It promises a new political theory, but its conclusions are vague, hesitant and almost painfully schematic. The core argument of authors Geoff Mann and Joel Wainwright is that a liberal capitalist supra-national world state or “sovereignty” is a likely way that the capitalist system will adapt to runaway climate change and other ecolo...

LA quintet Here Lies Man deliver a fourth dose of Sabbathy Afro-beat on Ritual Divination… Words: Phil Alexander “We’re very conscious of how the rhythms service the riffs. Tony Iommi​’s innovation was to make the riff the organising principle of a song. We are taking that same approach but employing a different organising principle: For Iommi it was the blues, for us it comes directly from Africa,” declares Here Lies Man guitarist/vocalist Marcos Garcia, discussing his band’s musical mission to marry Black Sabbath​’s heavy fuzz with the indestructible rhythms of Afro-...