KEN COCKBURN traces the one original language – that of the Yamnaya pastoral nomads – from which all European and Indian languages derive
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Everything Must Change
‘Pick 'n' mix’ proposals dilute menu for radical political action following coronavirus crisis
HAND-IN-HAND: Techno oligarchs Nasdaq and Facebook
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PAUL DONOVAN is fascinated by the debunking of the iconic British war hero
ALEX HALL recommends a searing panorama of our global predicament
Comics are not just superheroes and spandex – it can be public art, telling public stories, suggests HARRIET EARLE
ALEXEI SAYLE speaks to Angus Reid about a lifetime of protest, how to hone political art – and what to do now
The bard serenades the Diggers of Wigan and their festive followers
PURPORTEDLY a response to the coronavirus pandemic, Everything Must Change is a compilation of 20+ interviews conducted earlier last year with leftist journalists, academics, artists and political commentators.
Its editors, Renata Avila and Srecko Horvat, both prominent in Diem 25 (Democracy In Europe Now) and Progressive International, claim that the ideas and suggestions in the book will prompt readers “to know how to act, when and where to strike.”
I question if that will be the case. If the aim is to inform and guide coherent action, then I doubt that a book providing a kind of ideological “pic’n’mix” can stimulate an impetus for concerted action.
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