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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe 'Spanish revolution' and the Commons: a Tale of Two TweetsWhile hundreds arrived at the Spanish Embassy in London to support the protesters in Spain, the Labour-run Progress...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKEgypt, Bahrain, London, Spain - Tahrir Square as a meme
Certain tropes of struggle are spreading mimetically between movements against poverty, corruption and austerity...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKPower and the Media in Britain - where do we go from here?The media are a power in their own right, and are connected to political, economic and social forms of power....
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Published in: openDemocracyUKA New World in the Shell of the Old: prefigurative politics, direct action, educationOnline networks are increasingly seen as of huge importance for how social movements organise - be it in Wisconsin,...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKTwo arrests, a suspension, accusations of Islamophobia: Nottingham University must submit to a public enquiry
A professor was suspended earlier this month after publicly criticising the University of Nottingham's actions three...
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Published in: HomeAn improbable teamIt took an unlikely combination of talents to start building openDemocracy’s Tower of Babel, comments one of its founders
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe student 'Fight Back' is still going strong
Since the release of Fight Back! A Reader on the Winter of Protest in February, much has occurred in the British...
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Published in: HomeWeaving networks: the growing conversation of the world
Paul Hilder was co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of openDemocracy.net. He is now Director of Campaigns for the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKNews Corp's bid for BSkyB is a threat to British cultural expression
News Corp's bid for full ownership of BSkyB not only threatens the plurality of news provision in the UK. The...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKReporting a riot in Britain: how the police spun the battle of Stokes CroftMedia coverage of unrest in the south west of England on Friday was littered with inaccuracies. The lackluster...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKCall centre welfare: Coalition plans to dehumanise the state
As the legislation for Universal Credit goes through Parliament, Charlotte Pell argues that human beings, not call...
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Published in: HomeLiberation technology: dreams, politics, history
The doctrinal commitment to new cyber and social technologies as a means of solving political problems needs to...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKIn defence of Black Bloc
The state, with its monopoly on the legitimate use of violence, can afford to be idiotic in its analysis of the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKUK Uncut, responsibility and the logic of networked activism
Much of the critical rhetoric attacking UKUncut's choice not to denounce the violence on March 26th fails to...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhy UK Uncut can and should denounce the violence
UK Uncut must condemn the violence on Saturday 26 March. The network has formed around common views - such as an...
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Published in: openSecurityLibya: time to decide
Providing air support and arms for the Libyan opposition is necessary if stalemate and partition are to be avoided,...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKUK Uncut cannot denounce the violence on 26 March
Those most heavily involved in UKUncut are under enormous pressure to denounce the violence on behalf of the rest of...
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Published in: HomeThe freedom cloud
The tools that help Arab democracy protesters also extend the reach of three United States corporations. The power...
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Published in: oDRMightiest for the mightiest: “The Net Delusion”In “The Net Delusion”, Evgeny Morozov vents frustration at what he calls “cyber utopianism” in Western foreign...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWho decides what we access on the Internet?: Web blocking and its dangers
Another March, another web blocking proposal. The Guardian reported last week that Ed Vaizey MP, one of the...
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