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education for tomorrow
for state education
Quarterly journal of progressive education theory and practice
ISSN 2066-914S
New series first issue Winter 2019
£3 per copy plus £2 post and packing
£20 per year (4 issues)
Single or annual
Contents
The battle for pedagogy
Dead facts or really powerful knowledge?  Terry Wrigley
Building critical consciousness through dialogic reading in the primary classroom  Phil Yeeles
Challenging neoliberal orthodoxy through creative pedagogy   Jess Edwards
Michael Gove and the implications of ‘elitism’ in education   Ken Jones
An inescapable concern:  The Scottish and English curriculum through the prism of Paolo Freire James Douglas
Pedagogy,  power and control in Welsh education reform  Dave B Morgan
Measured intelligence: moonshine and shadow  Patrick Yarker
No-one’s brain is pink  Kiri Tunks
We need roses too:  student voices in revolutionary Cuba  Aretha Green
Mastery mathematics: but who is the slave?   Julian Williams
What is happening to Early Years education?  Lucy Coleman
In search of a radical pedagogy  Gawain Little
Tony Farsky    Martin Brown

by C Dlife times connollyesmond Greaves
edited by Anthony Coughlan and published in partnership with the Connolly Association
ISBN 978-1-907464-34-8
£11.50  €10  (plus £2 €2.5 post and packing)

Stamocap

State Monopoly Capitalism by Gretchen Binus, Beate Landefeld and Andreas Wehr, with an Introduction by Jonathan White

£4.95 (plus £1.50 p&p). ISBN 978-1-907464-27-0 

The 2007/8 worldwide banking collapse exposed – to a new generation – the cyclical nature of modern capitalism’s enduring crisis. With the collapse in bank confidence came the crisis of confidence in modern capitalism itself, and thus a resurgence of interest in Marxism.

But capitalism has moved on since Marx developed his economic analysis in Capital. And, although the labour theory of value may be fairly well understood within Britain’s labour movement, what is not generally grasped is the extent to which capitalism has become monopolised and dominated by the financial sector, and the degree to which the state and the monopolies are intertwined in order to maintain the system.

In every advanced capitalist economy it was the state that came to the rescue in the 2007/8 crisis, reinforcing the basis of the theoretical approach of state monopoly capitalism (SMC), which was the foundation of communist, and some socialist, critiques of capitalism, before the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

This monograph by Gretchen Binus, Beate Landefeld and Andreas Wehr, originally published in German, revisits the discussions on SMC theory in Germany, France, and the Soviet Union, demonstrating their contemporary relevance. An introduction by Jonathan White considers how a better understanding of state monopoly capitalism would assist those seeking the transformation of Britain in a socialist direction.