In the space of a year, Laurie Penny has become one of the most prominent voices of the new left. This book brings together her diverse writings, showing what it is to be young, angry, and progressive in the face of an increasingly violent and oppressive UK government.
Penny Red: Notes from the New Age of Dissent collects Penny's writings on youth politics, resistance, feminism, and culture. Her journalism is a unique blend of persuasive analysis, captivating interviews, and first-hand accounts of political direct action. She was involved in all the key protests of 2010/2011, including the anti-fees demos in 2010, and the anti-cuts protests of spring 2011, often tweeting live from the scene of kettles and baton charges. An introduction, conclusion, and extensive footnotes allow Penny to connect all the strands of her work, showing the links between political activism and wider social and cultural issues.
This book is essential for understanding what motivates the new generation of activists, writers and thinkers that bring creativity, energy and urgency to the fight against capitalism and exploitation.
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'Penny is re-inventing the language of dissent, delivering verbal taser-barbs to the left and right, and causing apoplexy among the old men in cardigans who run the British blogosphere' -- Paul Mason, economics editor of BBC's Newsnight 'Cuts, sexism and riots, Laurie Penny's fresh and angry voice captures the moment and the important issues' -- Polly Toynbee 'In riots, kettles and occupations, and with visceral anger, big-eyed desperation and wicked humour, this is Laurie Penny at her very best; filing articles on her Blackberry from the front line and giving a voice to a generation already at the end of its tether' -- Dan Hancox, author of Kettled Youth (2011)
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Inside the Millbank Tower Riots |
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Talking About a Revolution |
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Inside the Whitehall Kettle |
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Protesting the Turner Prize |
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Inside the Parliament Square Kettle |
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No Sex, No Drugs and No Leaders |
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What Really Happened in Trafalgar Square |
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What Sun Readers Swallow with their Corn Flakes |
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Me, the Patriarchy and my Big Red Pen |
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The Princess Craze is no Fairy Tale |
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Zionism, Chauvinism and the Nature of Rape |
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Charlie Sheen's Problem with Women |
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Buns, Bunting and Retro-Imperialism |
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Poppy Day is the Opium of the People |
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Michael Gove and the Imperialists |
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Poverty Pimps: Selling Out the Disabled |
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It's all Over for Sex-and-Shopping Feminism |
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Revolts Don't Have to be Tweeted |
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Is that a Truncheon in Your Pocket? |
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How the Disabled were Dehumanised |
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Hey, Dave: Our Society's Bigger Than Yours |
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Laurie Penny is an award-winning author, columnist, journalist and screenwriter.
Her seven books include Bitch Doctrine (Bloomsbury 2017), Unspeakable Things (Bloomsbury 2014), Everything Belongs To The Future (Tor, 2016) and Penny Red (Pluto Press, 2011). As a freelance journalist, she writes essays, columns and longform features about politics, social justice, pop culture, feminism, mental health, technology for the Guardian, Longreads, Time Magazine, Buzzfeed, The New York Times, Vice, Salon, The Nation, The New Statesman, The New Inquiry, Tor.com and Medium. Her short stories have been published by Tor.com, Terraform and in collections for MacMillan and Nautilus Press. She was a 2014-15 Nieman Journalism Fellow at Harvard University.
As a screenwriter, Laurie has worked on The Nevers, (HBO), Netflixs The Haunting, and Amazons Carnival Row
Warren Ellis is a graphic novelist, writer, public speaker and author of the bestselling novel Gun Machine (Mulholland, 2014). He contributed the foreword to Penny Red (Pluto, 2011).
