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Another Turkey is possible

Sait Akgul on the background to the Taksim Square protests and beyond Read more

Learning from Taksim Square

Neil Faulkner looks at the historical significance of the Taksim protest movement Read more

A chance to change this country's history

John Rees: the first People's Assembly is the start of a process of mobilisation Read more

The drugs don't work - Why can't our rulers kick the austerity habit?

Austerity isn't working, why can't our rulers give it up? Video with James Meadway and Mary Robinson Read more

The Question of Strategy: Part 2

The second part of Alex Snowdon's review of The Question of Strategy considers campaigning strategies Read more

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International

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Greece: Democracy? No Signal

Elli Siapkidou describes the movement against the government's decision to shut down ERT, Greece’s national broadcaster

International | Elli Siapkidou | Tuesday, 18 June 2013

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Video: Fighting sexism: why it's kicking off everywhere

From the streets of Delhi to the corridors of the BBC a new mood is seeing misogyny challenged wherever it rears its ugly head. But why now? And where next? Wi...

Video | Lucio Versaggi | Monday, 17 June 2013

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Video: After Chavez: the future of Latin America

Hugo Chavez was a rare thing - a poplular hero in government. After his death, how can the Bolivarian Revolution go forward? Jeremy Corbyn MP, Bernard Regan and...

Video | Lucio Versaggi | Wednesday, 12 June 2013

News & Comment

Images and video from Brazil solidarity protest London 18 June 2013

Video and images by Lucy Clements and Lucas Perry-Hill from the London protest called in solidarity ...

Long Live Southbank! Skateboarding versus the corporations

Skateboarders on the South Bank in London are campaigning to defend their space against corporate ta...

NHS campaigners target Hunt in his own back yard

Campaigners from across London converge on Health minister's constituency

Video: Cut warfare not welfare: People's Assembly 22 June 2013

Why are we spending so much money on killing and destruction when we are facing austerity at home? C...

Radio

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World War One: All Germany's fault? Neil Faulkner debates Max Hastings

Cameron's plans to celebrate WWI are coming under fire - Neil Faulkner debates Max Hastings on the Jeremy Vine Show

Radio | | Monday, 17 June 2013

Women's Liberation

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Women’s liberation: theory and practice

Fundamental change for women means challenging the priorities of a system based on profit, and that requires connecting women’s movements to the wider fight for change

Women's Liberation | Lindsey German | Friday, 24 May 2013

Book Review

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Mad Science: The Nuclear Power Experiment

Nuclear power is championed by some environmentalists as an answer to global warming, Mad Science provides evidence that it remains far too dangerous

Book Reviews | Elaine Graham-Leigh | Friday, 3 May 2013

Analysis

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The Lady's not for mourning: Margaret Thatcher and the neoliberal counter-revolution

Historian Neil Faulkner on Thatcher, the neoliberal counter-revolution, and the battle for the future

Analysis | Neil Faulkner | Tuesday, 16 April 2013

International

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Stephen Harper, David Cameron and the political uses of Islamophobia

Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper addressed the UK parliament on Thursday, Sana Malik looks at his record of islamophobia

International | Sana Malik | Sunday, 16 June 2013

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Video: Owen Jones on how to tackle scroungers

George Osborne takes from those who have least, while the Daily Mail and others cheer his attacks as tackling ‘scroungers’. But Owen Jones thinks that there are...

Video | fourmanfilms | Monday, 10 June 2013

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Video: Tariq Ali: is American power in decline?

Retreat from Iraq and Afghanistan, allies toppled in Egypt and Libya, recession at home and China on the rise. In this video from Dangerous Ideas for Dangerous ...

Video | Fourmanfilms | Monday, 10 June 2013

Resisting austerity

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Even the Times knows we can turn the tide against austerity

This is a moment of hope for the labour movement - at last the unions, the left and the anti-austerity movement are getting it together, writes John Rees in the...

Resisting austerity | John Rees | Tuesday, 4 June 2013

International

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Letter from Italy: race, class and Balotelli

Elle Gierre looks at what the treatment Balotelli's tells us about the deep seated racism of Italian society and the experience of the 'italiani di seconda gen...

International | Elle Gierre | Wednesday, 5 June 2013

Theory

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The crisis in Europe and the response of the Left

In this article, which will appear in Spanish in the Chilean journal Revista Materialismo Histórico, John Rees looks at the prospects for the left

The Crisis | John Rees | Tuesday, 2 April 2013

Analysis

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Labour, the movement and the radical left

Labour activists are an important part of the anti-cuts movement in many areas. Reuben Bard-Rosenberg argues for a united anti-cuts movement involving those ins...

Analysis | Reuben Bard-Rosenberg | Monday, 22 April 2013

Theory

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Leninism for Dangerous Times

What can we learn from Lenin about how we organise to transform society? Paul Le Blanc provides some answers in this text of his talk presented at Dangerous Ide...

Theory | Paul Le Blanc | Sunday, 2 June 2013

Video

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Long Live Southbank! Skateboarding versus the corporations

Skateboarders on the South Bank in London are campaigning to defend their space against corporate takeover. Video by Clare Solomon and Paul Hanes

Video | Clare Solomon and Paul Hanes | Monday, 17 June 2013

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Video: Terry Eagleton: why Marx was right

Economic catastrophe has put Marx back on the agenda. Was he right all along? Terry Eagleton makes the case in this video of his talk at Dangerous Ideas for Dan...

Video | fourmanfilms | Monday, 10 June 2013

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Video: David Harvey introduces Rebel cities: from the right to the city to the urban revolution

David Harvey, speaking at Dangerous Ideas for Dangerous Times, about his latest book, explaining how cities have been, and will continue to be, the main arena o...

Video | fourmanfilms | Monday, 10 June 2013

Opinion

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Dead giveaway: Charles Ramsey and racism in Obama's America

The reaction to Charles Ramsey's words to the media after he helped free three white women and a six-year old girl from a domestic prison shine a spotlight on the state of racism in the US

Opinion | Sean Ledwith | Sunday, 2 June 2013

Book Review

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Socialist Register 2013: The Question of Strategy

In this two-part review essay, Alex Snowdon discusses Socialist Register 2013: The Question of Strategy, on how the left, internationally, has responded to...

Book Reviews | Alex Snowdon | Thursday, 6 June 2013

International

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The New Scramble for Africa and the War On Terror

Dan Poulton explores the relationship between the new scramble for Africa and the War on Terror in an article is based on a talk given at the recent Dangerous I...

International | Dan Poulton | Wednesday, 12 June 2013

Theory

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Empire and revolution - Syria and the critics of the anti-war movement

John Rees responds to recent discussions on Syria, imperialism and the Arab revolutions

International | John Rees | Wednesday, 1 August 2012

Theory

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The crisis of the British regime: democracy, protest and the unions

The British political regime faces a crisis of confidence. This report presents empirical evidence for the democratic deficit, growing protest, the state of th...

Theory | Adrian Cousins | Sunday, 27 November 2011

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