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

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Heron, K., Milburn, K., Russel, B. (2025). Radical Abundance. How to Win a Green Democratic Future. Pluto Press. https://www.plutobooks.com/product/ra… Kai Heron at Lancaster University: https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/lec/about… Keir Milburn’s contributions at Novara Media: https://novaramedia.com/contributor/k… Bertie Russell at the Autonomous University of Barcelona: https://portalrecerca.uab.cat/en/pers… Abundance (the collective): https://www.in-abundance.org/ on Marta Harnecker: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marta_H… Lebowitz, M. A. (2013). Contested Reproduction and the Contradictions of Socialism. Socialist Project. https://socialistproject.ca/2013/09/b… Preobrazhensky, Y. (1965). The New Economics. Oxford University Press. https://files.libcom.org/files/%5bPre… Nunes, R. (2021). Neither Vertical nor Horizontal. A Theory of Political Organization. Verso. https://www.versobooks.com/products/7… on Public-Commons Partnerships: https://www.in-abundance.org/what-is-… https://www.in-abundance.org/reports/… for case studies on Public-Commons Partnerships, see: https://www.in-abundance.org/case-stu… on Public-Private Partnerships: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public%… 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/interac… 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/wha… 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-stu… Amarnath, S. et al. (2023): Varieties of Derisking. Phenomenal World. https://www.phenomenalworld.org/inter… on the Great Replacement conspiracy theory in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_R… on the coal strikes in Appalachia in the late 19th and early 20th century: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_Wars 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/2… the “Abundance” report on the social property of water in the UK: https://www.in-abundance.org/latest/b… on the 2023 strike in France where workers cut energy to certain sectors: https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/0… van Dyk, S. & Haubner, T. (2021). Community-Kapitalismus. Hamburger Edition. https://www.hamburger-edition.de/buec… 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/10.1… Bianchi, I. & Russell, B. (eds.) (2026). Radical Municipalism. The Politics of the Common and the Democratization of Public Services. Bristol University Press. (forthcoming) https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/… on Climateflation: https://www.theguardian.com/world/202… on hernani burujabe (the tripartite economic planning system in the city of Hernani): https://hernaniburujabe.eus/es/que-es/ Egia-Olaizola, A., Villalba-Eguiluz, U. and Gainza, X. (2025), Beyond the New Municipalism. Towards Post-Capitalist Territorial Sovereignty in the Case of Hernani Burujabe. Antipode, 57: 1448-1469. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/1… Klein, E. & Thompson, D. (2025). Abundance. Avid Reader Press. https://www.simonandschuster.com/book… on Marx’s concept of the realm of necessity and freedom: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx… on David Graeber: https://davidgraeber.org/ Suits, B. (2005). The Grasshopper. Games, Life and Utopia. Broadview Press. https://kevinjpatton.com/teaching/phi… on the socialist ecomodernism and degrowth debate: https://www.resilience.org/stories/20…

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