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The pandemic should have been a chance to decry inequality and demand change. Instead, Labour tried to win a patriotism contest with the Tories, and lost
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Published in: HomeWhoever owns the youth: a Reader (Pt. 1)The lesson here is not simply the description of violence designed to frighten children, it is in itself a form of violence
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Published in: oDR: Interview‘The word feminism is still a trigger’: Russia's feminists in their own wordsFour activists from the country’s regions explain how they’re trying to bring feminism to a wider audience
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: AnalysisThis should be the social care election – why is it being treated as anything but?Some 30,000 died of COVID in England’s care homes. Yet with few understanding councils and the care system, social...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Lin Shu, author of the QuixoteThis year marks the 405th anniversary of Cervantes’ death. The Instituto Cervantes in Shanghai has decided to honour...
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» A strange piece which doesn't mention the military assistance given by the UK to the Saudis, nor the help given to the Saudis by conscience-free, ordinary working people in...
– by ThisWreckage on: After six years of war, what is happening in Yemen? - 2021-05-09
» BY FAR THE MOST OVEREACHING ISSUES OF OUR TIME ARE CLIMATE CHANGE, MASS GLOBAL EXTINCTION AND POLLUTION. Why are these not even hinted at by whoever you are?
– by DAMUS76 on: Priti Patel’s war on Britain’s last nomads - 2021-05-08
» In 2011, the SNP's landslide victory was only partially related to the independence drive. I recall that Ashcroft's polling found that over 30% of SNP voters had voted NO in...
– by BCcantsignin on: This was Scotland’s most boring election, and its most important - 2021-05-08
» O velho sistema patriarcal capitalista, classista, rico, jurídico, militarista, religioso e segregacionista em que tentamos sobreviver.
– by Max on: A ascensão da narcomilícia neopentecostal no Brasil - 2021-05-07
» Too descriptive. No mention of the political-economy background of the phenomenon.
– by Nèd on: The rise of Brazil’s neo-Pentecostal narco-militia - 2021-05-07