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Time for Ken to get on the bus

This is a guest post by Annie Powell, a Labour Party member living in London. As Ken Livingstone’s mayoral campaign has intensified over the past few weeks, I have become increasingly convinced that his campaign team is missing a trick. This Tuesday and last thousands of leaflets detailing Ken’s promise to reduce fares by 7% … Read more

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Lording it over the squats

This post was originally published on the SQUASH blog under the title “Squatting criminalised by ‘sham democracy’” and is written by Hannah Schling. It is unnerving to witness a political process which criminalises up to 50,000 people in a matter of months. It is yet more unnerving when you consider the supposed ‘crime’: taking shelter … Read more

Lessons from Maude

I cycled to work in Bristol yesterday past a petrol station webbed in red and white tape, dry as a mormon wedding. There is something pretty dystopic about empty petrol stations, like abandoned factories or early summer mornings when no-one’s about. So pivotal are functioning petrol stations in maintaining the mundanity of the everyday environment … Read more

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Galloway’s win should be a wake up call to the left

This morning Ladbrokes will begin the biggest payout in British by-election history. George Galloway, who entered the race as a 33-1 outsider, has won the Bradford West election by a country mile. This sort of shock to the parliamentary political system is rare and and easily dismissed but it should come as a challenge to all … Read more

Steak and Blowjobs

This is guest post by Dora Meade who is an editor at Shopping Hour Magazine The month of March is now home to ‘Steak and Blow-Job Day’, a day that claims to make amends for the twenty-four hour onus put on the male population during the 14th February. Valentines apparently entail chocolates, flowers, cards and being … Read more

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No taxation without representation.

This is a guest post by Ross Greer who is a campaigner with the Votes at 16 Coalition. While the phrase that sparked a revolution might be a slightly hyperbolic title, it lays out the debate over the voting age quite nicely.  This week is Votes At 16 Action Week, called by the Votes At … Read more

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The Fight Ahead

This is a guest post by Rhianna Ketley who blogs at The Public Woman Yesterday was the 101st International Women’s Day (IWD). Every year on this day, people come together to celebrate the achievements of women in history and the present. But it’s also an opportunity to shine a spotlight on the many ways in … Read more

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Kony 2012; why it’s better to leave the killing to the ‘bad guys’

International Development NGOs are rarely known for their subtlety. Comic Relief features an annual parade of celebrities screaming ‘won’t someone think of the children?’, Oxfam displays pictures of suffering in Africa as if nothing good or fun or exciting has ever happened there and Save the Children act as if only us in the West … Read more

If you exploit us we will shut you down.

On Saturday morning, as shoppers begun to fill the pavements of the Capital’s busiest shopping street, a small cabal of people – from bearded Socialist Workers to trendy young things nursing hangovers – gathered to name and shame shops which continue to take part in the Government’s workfare schemes. The more nimble among the crowd … Read more

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A cure for the crisis? Tackle inequality

For decades now the consensus amongst those with the power to decide policy has been that inequality is key to spurring the competition needed to bring growth. While stagnating wages at the bottom were an unfortunate side-effect, the incentive of large rewards at the top would encourage the kind of risk-taking needed to create an … Read more

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