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Deborah Grayson is an activist and ghost writer of popular books on politics. Her most recent accomplishment is surviving the Yes to Fairer Votes AV referendum campaign. She has previously been an organizer for Climate Rush and the Spartans, founded The Cuts Won’t Work and is on the False Economy working group. She also directs opera.

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Deborah Grayson and Ben Little 4 August 2011

While the left presume they are the internationalists, it is the far right who have mastered network politics, by scaling seamlessly from the local to the national to the civilisational

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