Richard Swift

This piece is excerpted from Richard Swift's recent book S.O.S: Alternatives to Capitalism. Swift is former editor of New Internationalist magazine and author of the No-Nonsense Guide to Democracy as

The commons as a fount of hope

Recasting our relationships to the commons should take pride of place as we build alternatives to capitalism.

By Richard Swift

/ 15 Sep 2014

Slow Food and the Pleasure Principle

Much of left thinking has been based on denial: don't eat this, believe that or behave like the other. Slow Food provides a healthy antidote of inclusion, rather than exclusion, and as the authors discovered in Turin – much to savour.

By David Ransom and Richard Swift

/ 15 Dec 2010