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How a Century of War Changed the Lives of WomenThe introduction from Lindsey German's book How a Century of War Changed the Lives of Women looks at how and why the anti-war movement became a vehicle for women’s political action

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coverThe anti-war demonstrations on the February 15th 2003 marked a new phase in the history of movements of protest argues Chris Nineham in this extract from The People v Tony Blair

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coverThe huge protests against the Iraq War in 2003 nearly brought down Blair and almost forced Britain out of the war argues Chris Nineham in the Introduction to The People v Tony Blair

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The Mob is A Movement: In the final extract from A People's History of London, Lindsey German and John Rees conclude their explanation of the roots of rebellion and protest in the nature of London as a city

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In the second extract from A People's History of London, Lindsey German and John Rees explain why London has such a vibrant history of radicalism

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In the first extract from A People's History of London, Lindsey German and John Rees explain that the recent Occupy camp outside St Paul's Cathedral lies in a long line of Londoners' gatherings and protests in that very place, stretching back centuries

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timelinesIn this extract from the Introduction to his new book, Timelines, A Political History of the Modern World, John Rees looks at some of the forces that gave rise to the world in which we live.

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Occupations, now part of the tradition of the student movement in Britain, radicalised and polarised the education debate, and involved new leaders that had never been involved in politics before.

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What started off as a defensive movement against fee increases and cuts, ultimately raised questions of free education, the ConDem government's spending priorities, and austerity as a whole.

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Looking at the history of student struggle, the key to the involvement of workers, as in '68, was the intensity of the student struggle and its capacity to create a social crisis into which workers could be drawn.

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Those running the education system are desperate to turn universities into skills factories in the interests of British capital. Defending humanities and social sciences is part of the struggle to prevent this attack on education.

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The assault on universities has not only curbed the expansion and accessibility of higher education, but within it the idea of a universal, holistic education that is critical, radical and capable of changing the world.

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The logic of the bureacratisation of academia, forcing academics to 'publish or perish' and cut corners when it comes to teaching, has more to do with the marketisation of universities than learning and scholarship.

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Exposing the government’s attempt to transform higher education into a commodity for the market, The Assault on Universities documents last year's student revolt and provides a guide for taking the fight forward.

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As the prevailing tenor of the media becomes increasingly committed to the Israeli military’s point of view, so freedom of discourse in the Israeli academy firmly shuts down.

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The limited public space available to question the Zionist narrative in the 1990s disappears as the Israeli media adopts an entirely uncritical perspective.

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The third extract from Out of the Frame describes how Palestinian and Israeli historical dialogue breaks down almost as soon as it had begun.

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As a young academic in Israel, Pappé discovered that the politics of free speech in the academy was more compromised than it appeared.

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Ilan Pappé’s research on the Nakbah uncovered difficult truths about the expulsion of Palestinians in 1948, including evidence of war crimes committed by Israeli forces, and he was eventually hounded out of his academic post and Israel altogether. Here he questions standard accounts of the foundation of Israel and the Nakbah.

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Tunisia's revolutionary uprising is described by Leila Basmoudi, who argues that the revolutions that have been unleashed across the Middle East are not over.

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