As we rebuild from the wreckage, let's consider how the structures of the state have fatally limited what feels possible. Constitutional experiments in Latin America suggest a way to organise the state which can liberate society’s potential.
How can the left ever shift from a politics of resistance to one of governance? It needs to start by thinking more deeply about what governance, and self-governance, actually is, and at what level (personal, local, national, supra-national, planetary) it should best take place. Part of the Left go
Public support for co-operation, collective ownership and mutual care have persisted, despite the popularity of some of the neoliberal agenda. What policies could the left pursue to build from where we are now?
How do we “mobilise the past against a reckless present”? By drawing on a rich seam of successful, radical educational visions. Part of openDemocracy's "Left governmentality" mini-series.
Home ownership is seen as a route to security. But a more fluid conception could benefit everyone. Part of openDemocracy's "Left governmentality" mini-series.
The media has sold us collective hallucinations of ourselves, from Keynesian man to Thatcherite man (and woman). Can we now create something better? Part of openDemocracy's "Left governmentality" mini-series.
The left needs to reclaim education as a democratic practice, and ask searching questions about what education is for, and how we see teachers, children and schools. Part of openDemocracy's "Left governmentality" mini-series.
A remade New Public Management for the left should focus on co-operative, open planning through democratic worker control of management technologies. Part of openDemocracy's "Left governmentality" mini-series.
