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MIKE COWLEY welcomes half a century of remarkable work, that begins before the Greens and invites a connection to — and not a division from — nature
Democracy’s the word – for crooks and liars
ANDREW MURRAY recommends a volume of essays that nail the visionless, racist and neoliberal character of policy under Starmer’s Labour Party
JONATHAN TAYLOR appreciates how, for a black British musician, to walk onstage can be a rebellious act
Since 2023, Strike Map has evolved from digital mapping at a national level to organising ‘mega pickets’ — we believe that mass solidarity with localised disputes prepares the ground for future national action, writes HENRY FOWLER
Like dictators of the past, Trump is seeking an enforcement agency answering only to him, asserts CJ ATKINS
From tens of thousands left abandoned to a militarised ‘looting’ crackdown, Hurricane Katrina laid bare racial inequities and government neglect, writes NATALIA MARQUES
DEMOCRACY is very much the byword for this week, or more precisely the subversion of it.
While the yeah and nay camps in the EU referendum debacle continue to ramp up their blustering bullshit and bipartisan bastardry as polling day nears, both are very keen on employing the term for their own ends.
“We must preserve our democracy,” they howl in faux anguish. While conversely anything they disagree with but can’t win the argument over is simply branded undemocratic, nonsense, or both.
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