The Body
28 Birthing while black
How maternity services fail
30 Labour pains Challenging medical institutions’ control over our bodies
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32 Better bodies The case for a ‘transhumanist’
socialist future
34 The coming of age Old age and the ageing process cannot be divorced from the system as a whole
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36 Bodies and bombs in Peshawar The sustained and collective trauma of repeated witness
38 Body work Hookers against Hardship
40 Living with the virus
The understated scourge of long Covid
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Mutuality
48 The future is now Prefigurative politics and rethinking public ownership
Essay
42 Cannibal capitalism To save democracy, care and the planet, we need to address capital’s insatiable need to devour them
48 Inspired by Tom Nairn
Writers from Scotland, Wales and England pay tribute
Books
56 Reviews Troublemaking; Greater than the Sum of Our Parts; Migrants; Different Class
58 Books previews
63 Culture previews
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