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Socialism and Democracy is looking for someone to review:
FROM THE STREETS TO THE STATE: CHANGING THE WORLD BY TAKING POWER, Edited by
Paul Gray, SUNY Press, 2019.
Here is some information about the book:
>From the Streets to the State chronicles many diverse and
exciting projects to not only take state power but to fundamentally
change it. A blend of scholars and activists explore issues like the
nonsectarian relationships between new radical left parties, egalitarian
social movements, and labor movements in Greece, Germany, Spain,
Portugal, and Turkey. Contributors discuss municipal campaigns based in
popular assemblies, solidarity economies, and independent political
organizations fighting for racial, gender, and economic justice in
cities such as Jackson, Vancouver, and Newcastle. This volume also
studies the lessons learned from the Pink Tide in Latin America as well
as the social movements of racialized and gendered workers transforming
human rights across the United States. Finally, the book offers case
studies from around the world surveying the role of state workers and
public sector unions in radically democratizing public administration
through coalitions between the providers and users of public services.
Paul Christopher Gray teaches political science and labor studies at
Brock University.
Table of Contents
Part I: Changing the World . . . and Ourselves: The
Radical Left and the Problems of State Power
1. From the Streets to the State: A Critical Introduction Paul
Christopher Gray
2. D emocratizing the Party and the State: Transcending the Limits of
the Left Leo Panitch
Part II: Confronting Leviathan: Parties, Social Movements, and the
Capitalist State
3. Building "Parties of a New Type": A Comparative Analysis of New
Radical Left Parties in Western Europe Xavier Lafrance and
Catarina Príncipe
4. Watching Over the Right to Turn Left: The Limits of State Autonomy
in Pink Tide Venezuela and Ecuador Thomas Chiasson-LeBel
5. Casting Shadows: Chokwe Lumumba and the Struggle for Racial Justice
and Economic Democracy in Jackson, Mississippi Kali Akuno
6. T he Radical Democracy of the People's Democratic Party:
Transforming the Turkish State Erdem Yörük
7. T oward a Radical Politics of Rights: Lessons about Legal
Leveraging and Its Limitations Michael McCann and George
I. Lovell
*Part III: In, against, and beyond the Behemoth: Projects for
"Democratic Administration"
8. Market Failures, Failing States: Challenges for Democratization
Projects Greg Albo
9. Forging a "Social Knowledge Economy": Transformative Collaborations
between Radical Left Governments, State Workers, and Solidarity
Economies Hilary Wainwright
10. Femocratic Administration and the Politics of Transformation
Tammy Findlay
11. Beyond Service, beyond Coercion? Prisoner Co-ops and the Path to
Democratic Administration Greg McElligott
If you are interested in writing a review of this book, write to me at
[email protected]
George Snedeker
Book review Editor
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