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Published in: HomeBob Dylan: a conversation
Many celebrations of the great American musician Bob Dylan involve a personal journey through the archives of...
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Published in: HomeBob Dylan: revolution in the head, revisited
The most influential and original musician of the 1960s generation remains a figure of protean creativity half a...
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Published in: 50.50Anti-deportation campaigns: ‘What kind of country do you want this to be?’
A new musical, Glasgow Girls, showcases the power of anti-deportation campaigns as both an expression of human...
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Published in: 50.50Togo: a country of strangers?
Making peace in Togo is not a numbers game. Nor is it about searching to find out who was wrong in the past. As the...
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Published in: 50.50Togo : un pays d’étrangers?
Pour établir la paix au Togo, il ne faut pas faire de bilan ni chercher à savoir qui a eu tort dans le passé. A...
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Published in: oDRIn memoriam Valery Abramkin, Russia's prison reformer
Celebrated Russian activist Valery Abramkin has died aged 66. Here we republish extracts from a lecture delivered in...
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Published in: oDRTo live so as not to feel ashamed: remembering lawyer Yury Schmidt
Tributes are flooding in to the renowned Russian human rights lawyer Yury Schmidt, who has died aged 75. Schmidt...
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Published in: 50.50Stateless in Burma: Rohingya word wars
In order to understand how the ‘Rohingya crisis’ has come to pass we need to consider the narrative built by three...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKBritain and the problem of living in the past
As Jubilee celebrations die down in the short period of calm before the Olympics, questions arise about what all...
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Published in: HomeA tableau for Václav Havel
Tjebbe van Tijen presents a montage of graffiti and photographs in honour of Václav Havel
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Published in: HomePeople power and the new global ferment
People power does not lend itself to the geo-strategic interests of empires or warlords, since it is based on...
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Published in: HomeCharles de Gaulle remembered
A London radio broadcast on 18 June 1940 by an unknown French officer altered history’s course. It was also the...