Where Next? (53) ("Soundings")

by Ben Little (Editor), SallyDavison (Editor)

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  Issue 53 Spring 2013Buy this issue Where next? Neoliberalism and how to end its dominance has been a central concern in Soundings since its inception. In this issue we carry the framing statement for our online manifesto, After neoliberalism?, written by the journal's three founding editors, Stuart Hall, Doreen Massey and Mike Rustin. More information here. The issue also includes a range of potential responses to the current political situation. Andrew Gamble writes on the next steps for Labour. Natalie Bennett puts forward the Green Party view on what is to be done. Paul Mason argues that new forms of politics are emerging which mean that things will continue to kick off. Paul Salveson and Deborah Grayson & Des Freedman engage with specific issues through analysis that connects political action and winnable change with a wider challenge to current common sense - in Paul's case the future of the railways and in Deorah and Des's, the reform of the media. Elsewhere in the issue, our roundtable discussion on the Olympics explores the enmeshing of the Games in rhetorics of competiveness, spectacle and private-sector led regeneration. Gavin Bowd ponders whether the new French government will have the courage and strategy necessary to carry out its programme in the face of neoliberal European obstacles. Danielle Allen demonstrates the importance of connectedness to political equality. Varun Uberoi and Tariq Modood argue that it is misunderstandings of the meaning of multiculturalism that have been largely responsible for the view that it is in retreat. And Cynthia Cockburn documents the steadfastness and endurance of women in organisations in Northern Ireland, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Israel-Palestine, who battle for peace in the face of overwhelming odds.