October/November 2007 Archive 

Jo Brand’s Booktopia Jo Brand picks the eight books she’d take to the ends of the earth with her

A class act in Oxford A small left party, pro-working class and anti-multiculturalism, has been winning council seats on Britain’s largest council estate. Zoe Jewell reports

Agro-fooling ourselves EU and US targets and subsidies are fuelling a growing demand for ‘agrofuels’. Far from being a sustainable energy source, the increased cultivation of crops for fuel threatens the world’s poor with starvation, damages biodiversity and even contributes to global warming, argues Oscar Reyes

Hypertext heroines Feminism is back – and this time it’s hypertextual. Laurie Penny reports on the new women’s spaces on the web

After shock From Poland to Iraq and from China to New Orleans, neoliberalism has risen on the back of what Naomi Klein calls ‘disaster capitalism’. She spoke to Oscar Reyes about her new book, The Shock Doctrine, and new forms of resistance

China’s pollution solution With China now leading the list of global polluters, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) play an increasingly important role in tackling the country’s environmental challenges. Lucia Green-Weiskel reports from Beijing on the dilemmas facing civil society groups in working with China’s authoritarian state

Power to which people? The government is promising ’devolution right to the doorstep’ as a means of reinvigorating local democracy. A pilot participatory budget making project, whereby people can ’have a direct say’ in how their taxes are spent, has been running in Salford. Stephen Kingston questions its democratic credentials

Voices of descent Addressing climate change can seem a colossal task. Melanie Jarman reports on the emerging ‘transition town’ movement, which is encouraging citizens’ participation in long-term planning to change energy use at a local level

Pitch battles Anne Coddington and Mark Perryman introduce the fan-led counterculture resisting football’s transformation from people’s game to corporate plaything

Facing up to Facebook Dear Auntie,
I’m addicted to Facebook, spending days online desperate to add more ‘friends’ to my profile and consumed with the need to spill the most intimate details about my life. What should I do?
Lost in Cyberspace

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