If Jeremy Corbyn’s Your Party or Zack Polanski’s Greens are looking for a clear mission statement, they could do far worse than starting here. Part memoir, part manifesto for a socially and environmentally just future, this punchy pocket-book packs into 44 pages a more considered case for how the world’s splintered left might pull together in the common good than many of its leaders have mustered so far.
Inspired by Goodey’s 30-plus years on ‘the front lines of direct-action environmentalism and anti-capitalism’, All Hands on Deck argues that climate breakdown and ‘the gap between haves and have-nots’ are now both so urgent that ‘ideologically diverse groups’ must come together to resist common adversity. Goodey’s call to arms revives a long tradition of inclusive anti-factionalism from which we have heard too little in recent times – as attempts to build bridges between disparate groups, and to mobilize, have been drowned out by the repeated reassertion of tribal orthodoxies.
