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A Week in Politics: Con-Dems dream up a Kafka nightmare
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Glasgow will remember the martyrs of the 1787 strike this weekend in speech and song, their spirit is sorely needed today, writes JIM LISTER
ALEX BROWN explains how medieval Europe was plunged into sunless years, with widespread crop failures and devastating famines
Police crackdowns on Israeli peace demonstrators combined with court rulings and settler organisations are designed to strip Palestinian families of their homes and land. The Israeli state has tried to silence both Israelis and Palestinians who resist, according to Zo HaDerekh (This Is The Way) the Communist Party of Israel’s Hebrew-language weekly
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Communists in Australia, Britain and the US outlined a joint state agreement against their governments’ militarist provocations.
“THEY’RE talking about things of which they don’t have the slightest understanding, anyway. It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.” Franz Kafka, The Trial.
And thus we have, in a nutshell from the trembling pen of a consumptive Czech clerk, a fair approximation of the last two decades in British politics.
Kafka’s nightmare vision of the callous and ruthless nature of faceless bureaucracy is starting to look like a vision of a utopian future the way things have been going recently.
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