System Change for a Liveable Future Launch!

Join NIBS and the SEARCH Foundation for the launch of System Change for a Liveable Future by longtime friend of NIBS, Terry Leahy! Terry will be in conversation with Anitra Nelson and Hans Baer, discussing how a move towards the gift economy will lead towards a society without class and enivronmental degradation.

Books will be for sale at the event.

6pm for a 6:30pm start. Room TBC.

About the book:

Every day it becomes more obvious that the capitalist system cannot solve our problems. But what kind of system change could work? 

System Change for a Liveable Future explores our options. How we got into the mess we face now. Why a system based on money is not an option. How the gift economy would work. Problems with common proposals for system change—democratic socialism and the steady state economy. The transition to the gift economy. The nuts and bolts of a revolution. Prefiguring strategies for system change—everyday resistance and autonomous zones. The gift economy and the state. Do we need a state to run society? The Zapatista autonomous zone as a model. Why the gift economy is exactly what we need to end class society and live lightly on our planet.

About NIBS:
The New International Bookshop is Naarm (Melbourne)'s longest running leftist bookshop, selling both new and secondhand books of interest to the broad left community. We're proudly not affilated with any political organisation, aiming to encourage solidarity and discussion.

About Search Foundation:
SEARCH advocates for a democratic and ecologically socialist Australia, while working towards achieving greater democracy, economic and social equality, environmental sustainability, human rights, and international peace and cooperation.