Understanding the main political projects of our times, and their plans to expand or shrink the law, is the first step towards achieving greater equality and averting climate disaster.
Since 2016, Britain has been ruled by populists, who promise to expand democracy and shrink the law by taking back power from the European Union. Yet what these populists have actually done in power is institute a vast increase in new laws, made by ministers and not Parliament, regulating every aspect of our lives.
This move of promising less law while actually expanding it, has been characteristic of our lives for forty years, ever since the neoliberal counter-revolution. Every year, new criminal offences are created; new regulations are introduced.
Renton’s book dares us to imagine a world in which workers are winning, and ecocide treated with the urgency that it deserves. These changes can only come about, he argues, if the movements of the oppressed choose to disengage from the law.
- ISBN10 1914420179
- ISBN13 9781914420177
- Publish Date 12 July 2022
- Publish Status Forthcoming
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Watkins Media
- Imprint Repeater Books
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 270
- Language English
- URL https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9781914420177