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Adam Curtis in the emperor's new clothes

Published on: 19 January 2015

Written by: Dan Hancox All articles by Dan Hancox

Curtis has the glorious bounty of the entire BBC archives at his fingertips, he ranges across continents and across...
Published in: Can Europe Make It?
The Italian social strike is a landmark event for the precariat

Published on: 17 November 2014

Written by: Jamie Mackay All articles by Jamie Mackay

Last week the Italian precariat took a step beyond primitive rebellion and began to constitute itself as a politics....
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Our dreams don't fit in your ballot boxes

Published on: 6 October 2014

Written by: Dan Hancox All articles by Dan Hancox

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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Rome’s rebel lake is a parable of the contemporary commons

Published on: 25 August 2014

Written by: Jamie Mackay All articles by Jamie Mackay

Earlier this summer activists in Rome won the right to self-manage a vast lake in the city’s capital, effectively...
Published in: Can Europe Make It?
The King is dead!

Published on: 3 June 2014

Written by: Dan Hancox All articles by Dan Hancox

The King is dead! Long live the giddy baby elephant of the people!
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No platform for Billy Bragg

Published on: 22 July 2013

Written by: Dan Hancox All articles by Dan Hancox

There is politics in any kind of collective cultural gathering, which is why attempts to repress youth and/or...
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The only socialism we will ever know?

Published on: 1 May 2013

Written by: Dan Hancox All articles by Dan Hancox

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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Let them eat cupcakes

Published on: 4 January 2013

Written by: Dan Hancox All articles by Dan Hancox

Dan Hancox opens his new column saying good riddance to Britain’s 2012, as the country, caught in the grip of a...

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