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Published in: HomeAdam Curtis in the emperor's new clothes
Curtis has the glorious bounty of the entire BBC archives at his fingertips, he ranges across continents and across...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The Italian social strike is a landmark event for the precariat
Last week the Italian precariat took a step beyond primitive rebellion and began to constitute itself as a politics....
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Our dreams don't fit in your ballot boxes
When people go home – what happens next? How do you canalise the tidal energy of a protest or social movement until...
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Published in: HomeRome’s rebel lake is a parable of the contemporary commons
Earlier this summer activists in Rome won the right to self-manage a vast lake in the city’s capital, effectively...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The King is dead!
The King is dead! Long live the giddy baby elephant of the people!
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Published in: HomeNo platform for Billy Bragg
There is politics in any kind of collective cultural gathering, which is why attempts to repress youth and/or...
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Published in: HomeThe only socialism we will ever know?
Looking for signs of life and the difference that was made, surely that dreary grey oblong could not have been the...
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Published in: HomeLet them eat cupcakes
Dan Hancox opens his new column saying good riddance to Britain’s 2012, as the country, caught in the grip of a...