Politics for a Rational Left subject-art-culture The articles in this reader

The articles in this reader represent the way these tasks have been confronted during the seventies and eighties

it should also be able to confront visible dangers such as climate destruction with equal force

A casualty of modernization

is above all a survivor who has been a government minister since 1979

Alien Zone II presents some of the most exciting new voices in the current debates

Politics for a Rational Left subject-art-culture The articles in this readerIn this book, Eric Hobsbawm, one of Britain's most distinguished historians, tackles the current impasse of the left. In a series of cogent and elegant contributions he elaborates a strategy for the defeat of Thatcherism and the opening of a new era of progressive and democratic politics. Hobsbawm situates the left's recent difficulties within a longer historical perspective: the epochal crisis of the 'classic labour movement' created by new patterns