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India rising 27 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
A mobilisation by Ekta Parishad, a land rights movement originating in Madhya Pradesh The maxim that India is ‘a land of contrasts’ has become increasingly evident as the global economic slowdown sna...
Fighting a plague 27 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
At the peak of the AIDS crisis, the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT-UP) developed an innovative model of social movement organising, featuring provocative direct action, striking visual propagand...
Dictating the agenda – Murdoch’s Politics 27 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
‘I have never asked a prime minister for anything,’ Murdoch told Lord Justice Leveson in one of the most memorable moments of his inquiry into the British press. And perhaps there is some truth in it:...
The people’s painter 26 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
L S Lowry, Going to the Match, 1953. Professional Footballers Association, © The Estate of LS Lowry Growing up in the mill towns of north-west England, as I did, it is hard not to see the work of L S...
Marching on to war – The March That Shook Blair 26 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
The argument about the significance of the 15 February 2003 anti-war march in London has been going on ever since – and got serious again with a flurry of polemics to mark the 10th anniversary earlier...
India: Slums, students and resistance 26 Aug 2013 | 03:45 am
Mumbai’s slums are increasingly overshadowed by skyscrapers. Photo: JonoHub Slumbai As your flight begins its descent into Chhatrapati Shivaji international airport, Mumbai, you fly over endless home...
Squat rot: plans to extend squatting ban 25 Aug 2013 | 10:50 pm
‘It is true that some of those who are homeless have squatted but this does not make them squatters. A typical squatter is middle class, web-savvy, legally minded, university-educated and, most import...
Two brains to rub together – Genes, Cells and Brains 25 Aug 2013 | 10:06 pm
Hilary and Steven Rose’s new book is about the politics of biology, but it’s also about themselves. The Roses are professors of sociology (her) and neurobiology (him), both with a long-standing and vo...
David Harvey interview: The importance of postcapitalist imagination 22 Aug 2013 | 01:00 am
Five years ago next month Lehman Brothers filed for the largest bankruptcy in US history. Its collapse was to signal the beginning of the Great Recession – the most substantial world historic crisis o...
Einstein had it right: John Kerry’s latest Middle East ‘peace process’ 21 Aug 2013 | 11:26 pm
John Kerry: spot the pattern US Secretary of State John Kerry’s latest foray into Middle East negotiations should be called the Einstein peace process. Doing the same thing over and over again and st...
