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Tim
Jordan & Adam Lent (eds)
A
new politics is growing
in influence and power across the industrialised world. Active but decentred,
rebellious but non-programmatic, influential but not state-centred, this new politics
is redefining radicalism. Raising issues around sexuality, gender, drugs, transport,
the environment, ethnicity, computers and communication, democracy, music and
the future of socialism, the new politics ventures into areas the timid political
establishment does its best to avoid.
Activists are beginning to reflect
on their struggles, as journalists and intellectuals are recognising the importance
of new politics. Storming the Millennium is the first book to bring a range
of activists and intellectuals together in one volume. The book provides some
of the first histories of new movements that are at the core of new politics and
grapples with the important political and theoretical issues raised by new politics
through interviews and analyses.
Bringing together new and established
writers, Storming the Millennium includes discussions of among other issues,
crime and justice, disabilities, bisexual, gay, lesbian and transgender politics,
race issues in 1990s Britain, activism on the Internet, gender politics and the
relationship between new politics, the New Left and socialism.