Kai Heron, Keir Milburn and Bertie Russell discuss Radical Abundance, transition and public-commons partnerships.

Shownotes

Heron, K., Milburn, K., Russell, B. (2025). Radical Abundance. How to Win a Green Democratic Future. Pluto Press.

https://www.plutobooks.com/product/radical-abundance/

Kai Heron at Lancaster University:

https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/lec/about-us/people/kai-heron

Keir Milburn’s contributions at Novara Media:

https://novaramedia.com/contributor/keir-milburn/

Bertie Russell at the Autonomous University of Barcelona:

https://portalrecerca.uab.cat/en/persons/bertie-thomas-russell

Abundance (the collective):

https://www.in-abundance.org/

on Marta Harnecker:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marta_Harnecker

on Michael A. Lebowitz:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_A._Lebowitz

Lebowitz, M. A. (2013). Contested Reproduction and the Contradictions of Socialism. Socialist Project.

https://socialistproject.ca/2013/09/b877/

on Yevgeni Preobrazhensky:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeni_Preobrazhensky

Preobrazhensky, Y. (1965). The New Economics. Oxford University Press.

https://files.libcom.org/files/%5bPreobrazhensky%2C_Evgeny_Alekseevich%5d_The_New_Econo(BookZZ.org).pdf

Nunes, R. (2021). Neither Vertical nor Horizontal. A Theory of Political Organization. Verso.

https://www.versobooks.com/products/772-neither-vertical-nor-horizontal

on Public-Commons Partnerships:

https://www.in-abundance.org/what-is-a-public-commons-parntership

https://www.in-abundance.org/reports/public-common-partnerships-building-new-circuits-of-collective-ownership

for case studies on Public-Commons Partnerships, see:

https://www.in-abundance.org/case-studies

on Public-Private Partnerships:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public%E2%80%93private_partnership

on council farms in the UK:

https://www.cpre.org.uk/explainer/county-farms-explainer/

Common Wealth (the organization):

https://www.common-wealth.org/

Common Wealth’s recent project on privatization and Public-Private Partnerships in the UK:

https://www.common-wealth.org/interactive/who-owns-britain/home

on Che Guevara:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevara

on Stuart Hall:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Hall_(cultural_theorist)

on Hugo Chávez:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Ch%C3%A1vez

Gilbert, C. (2023). Commune or Nothing! Venezuela’s Communal Movement and its Socialist Project. Monthly Review Press.

https://monthlyreview.org/9781685900243/

on agroecology:

https://agroecology-coalition.org/what-is-agroecology/

SCOP-TI:

https://www.scop-ti.info/

the Berlin Housing Campaign:

https://dwenteignen.de/en

on the Wards Corner Market:

https://www.in-abundance.org/case-studies/wards-corner

Amarnath, S. et al. (2023): Varieties of Derisking. Phenomenal World.

https://www.phenomenalworld.org/interviews/derisking/

on the Great Replacement conspiracy theory in the US:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Replacement_conspiracy_theory_in_the_United_States

on marronage communities and their role in slave rebellions:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maroons

on the coal strikes in Appalachia in the late 19th and early 20th century:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_Wars

on the Black Panther Party:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Panther_Party

on SYRIZA and their development:

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/rethinking-populism/the-systemic-metamorphosis-of-greeces-once-radical-left-wing-syriza-party/

on Erik Olin Wright’s “Transition Troughs” concept, see chapter 9 and 10 of:

Wright, E. O. (2010). Envisioning Real Utopias. Verso.

https://www.versobooks.com/products/2143-envisioning-real-utopias

the “Abundance” report on the social property of water in the UK:

https://www.in-abundance.org/latest/beyond-bailouts

on the 2023 strike in France where workers cut energy to certain sectors:

https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/03/30/robin-hood-electricians-and-oil-blockades-the-radical-tactics-of-frances-striking-energy-w

van Dyk, S. & Haubner, T. (2021). Community-Kapitalismus. Hamburger Edition.

https://www.hamburger-edition.de/buecher-e-books/artikel-detail/community-kapitalismus/

van Dyk, S. (2018). Post-Wage Politics and the Rise of Community Capitalism. Work, Employment and Society, 32(3), 528-545.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0950017018755663

on municipalism:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Municipalism

Bianchi, I. & Russell, B. (eds.) (2026). Radical Municipalism. The Politics of the Common and the Democratization of Public Services. Bristol University Press. (forthcoming)

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