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Socialist Register 2025: Openings and Closures: Socialist Strategy at a Crossroads

Openings and Closures: Socialist Strategy at a Crossroads: Socialist Register 2025

Since the 2016 upsurge in enthusiasm for electoral organizing and party-building, the terrain has shifted. It was not so long ago that a new wave of democratic socialist organizing exploded onto the scene – but the defeat of candidates such as Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn, following on the crumbling of the “new parties” in Europe, had a deflating effect. As Greece’s Syriza, Spain’s Podemos, and Portugal’s Bloco let down the leftist movements that brought them to power, those inspired by Hugo Chavez in Latin America also saw the Bolivarian revolutions hit an impasse. We find socialist strategy again at a crossroads, pressed by the

Beyond Plague Urbanism

Beyond Plague Urbanism

A soulful and poetic examination of the future of city life

Our cities have been plagued by economic injustices and inequalities long before COVID-19 upended urban life everywhere. Beyond Plague Urbanism delves into this zone of urban pathology and wonders what successive lockdowns and exoduses, remote work and small-business collapse, redundant office space and unaffordable living space portend for our society in cities and our cities in society.

The city has historically been a Great Book inspiring a liberal education, the kind that teaches you how to become a citizen of the world. The city was always an existential rite of passage, especially for young people, broadening

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