Ron's rages are sincere and — according to his wife — healthily cathartic. But can these splenetic outbursts loosen the grip of capitalism at its most monstrous?
Rebel Footprints by David Rosenberg
New edition of the indispensable radical walking guide to London
REBEL FOOTPRINT: The Savoy Hotel, site of the palace destroyed during the Peasants’ Revolt
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ANGUS REID considers the power of the podcast as a vehicle for consensus building in opposition to mainstream media narratives
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FRANCIS DEVINE introduces a new collection of essays that draws on Pease McKenna’s example to indicate future paths for the movement
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DAVID ROSENBERG has demolished an assumption and disrupted a habit.
I always assumed that my knowledge of London’s dissenting tradition was adequate but incomplete, but this revised edition of his Rebel Footprints exposes my ignorance of key aspects of even the better-known episodes in the city’s radical history.
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