For a rather different take on the apocalypse, there’s the latest offering from Reverend Billy, New Internationalist’s favourite anti-consumerist evangelist from the Church of Stop Shopping. In The End of the World (OR Books ISBN 9781 935 928935) the good preacher rouses us not to forgiveness or supplication but to shameless, loving and living direct action. A book to brandish in the face of the next riot cop. Revolujah!

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