The Alternative

And How We Build It

Owen Jones author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd

Published:2nd Oct '25

£25.00

This title is due to be published on 2nd October, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

The Alternative cover

Owen Jones's bestseller The Establishment exposed the elites who run our lives. Now The Alternatives hows us what we can do about it.

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We know our world's unequal. But, says Owen Jones, it doesn't have to stay that way. No status quo simply dissolves of its own accord: it must be replaced with something else.

Without a real alternative that attracts the belief of millions of people, things will stay the same, if only because it's impossible for many to imagine things looking any different.

The Alternative tells us that change is possible, desirable and even inevitable - if we want it.

Owen goes in search of the people who are already making change happen: from the US and the UK to Latin America, from the struggles of Hungarian and Turkish dissidents working against authoritarian governments to the millions-strong anti-austerity movement in Spain. On his travels, he gathers evidence on how an economy can be built for the many rather than being a racket for the few; how we can reboot welfare states, education systems and health services for the twenty-first century; and, last but not least, how we can build enough decent homes for people to live in.

All this, he shows, must happen through renewed democracy: it is only democracy that can take on inequality and injustice. There is an alternative. We just have to learn how to make it happen. This book shows us how.

©2024 Owen Jones (P)2024 Penguin Audio

I'll never look at UK class politics in the same way -- Naomi Klein on THE ESTABLISHMENT * Guardian Books of the Year *
A truly necessary book -- Philip Pullman on THE ESTABLISHMENT
An eye-opening state-of-the-nation book -- Armando Iannucci on THE ESTABLISHMENT * New Statesman Books of the Year *

ISBN: 9780241253960

Dimensions: 240mm x 156mm x 40mm

Weight: 750g

368 pages