Abstract

In its 2021 report on the state of world democracies, the US-based thinktank Freedom House declared that democracy was “under siege,” with worrying signs of retreat and resurgent authoritarianism across the world. In this book, a former university lecturer and trade unionist and now journalist and Green New Deal organiser takes up the problem of democracy as fundamental for understanding the opportunities and challenges facing the Left. In the wake of pessimism and right-wing populism, Ridley...