News from Nowhere’s round-up of radical reads

By Maria Ng

Arguments Against G8 edited by Gill Hubbard & David Miller (£11.99, paperback, Pluto Press) Not quite sure why you would want to spoil the G8's little get-together at Gleneagles this July? This collection of essays will arm you with the facts about this unelected talking shop of rich countries, and its ruthlessly destructive free-market agenda. Contributors include Susan George, Noam Chomsky, George Monbiot, Bob Crow, and Haidi Giuliani.

You Are G8, We Are Six Billion: The Truth Behind the Genoa Protests by Jonathan Neale (£10.99, paperback, Vision Paperbacks) Passionate personal account of the Genoa anti-G8 protests in 2001, including the experiences of the author's friends who were caught up in brutal police violence, interspersed with chapters detailing the connections between global capitalism and world debt, poverty, war, and climate change.

50 Facts That Should Change the World by Jessica Williams (£6.99, paperback, Icon Books) 50 provocative facts, each accompanied by an absorbing short essay: there are 27 million slaves in the world today; more votes were cast for Pop Idol than for the 2001 General Election; a third of the world's population is at war; black men born in the US stand a one-in-three chance of going to jail … Very effectively brings the inequalities & warped priorities of the world we live in into sharp focus.

Confessions of An Economic Hitman by John Perkins (£14.99, hardback, Berret Koehler) As an economist for an obscure but powerful US consulting firm in the 1970s, John Perkins's job was to persuade developing countries like Indonesia, Ecuador & Panama to take on huge loans for infrastructure projects contracted to US companies. The debt became leverage for extending US interests: oil concessions, military bases, political loyalty. Gripping insider account of neoliberalism's wrecking-ball tactics.

We Are Everywhere: The Irresistible Rise of Global Anticapitalism edited by 'Notes From Nowhere' (£10.99, paperback, Verso) A diverse and joyful anthology of the anti-capitalist movement, featuring a multitude of voices from Papua New Guinea to ex-Yugoslavia, from India to Catalonia, talking about their local struggles, and the principles of autonomy, solidarity & direct action that connect the disparate global network of movements against capitalism.

Soil and Soul: People Versus Corporate Power by Alastair MacIntosh (£7.99, paperback, Aurum Press) Alastair MacIntosh 'digs where he stands' to write about past and present struggles in his native Hebridean islands - from the Highland clearances to the breakdown of the mutuality of the community of his childhood years, to his involvement in successful campaigns against a potentially devastating industrial quarry development on the Isle of Harris and for community ownership of the Isle of Eigg. This extraordinary book is an inspiring & unashamedly spiritual meditation on the dynamics of power in our disconnected & dispossessed globalised world.

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