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Our future is now. Reclaim the Commons!
Many contemporary political trends are focussed on the negative. That is, a fight to prevent neoliberal measure. The anti-austerity movement, for example, is focussed on fighting cuts to public services…
the time for building
I have a proposal. My proposal is simple. My proposal is that you, dear reader, take 5 minutes, and you dream. I want to you to dream about what kind…
Charlie Hebdo: A brief response
The media response, the Europe-wide vigils, the endless #killallmuslims tweets – all of these make Charlie Hebdo sound like a beacon of human rights. They weren’t. They were Islamophobic. They…
Decolonising change: a theory of knowledge
Studies of resistance, opposition and protest have always been exactly that – studies of enacted antithesis. They have remained constructed into a Hegellian theory of change where the status quo…
when hope isn’t necessary anymore
I have tendency to write personal posts when I am despairing, or on the brink of falling apart. But this post is different. It is about the beauty of humanity,…
5 things I learnt while skipping yesterday
It’s the end of an academic year, and undergraduate students have been busying themselves packing to go home. But after filling the car full of all sorts of accumulations, the…
Why I feel unable to vote for the European Elections
I’m not from the UK. I have a British passport, but I don’t feel “British”. In fact, I don’t really feel like my nationality should really define my identity at…
Rhetoric, ridicule and oppression: tactics of the Nastier Party, UKIP
‘We’re not career politicians, just people asking to be elected and paid as MEPs.’ The ethos of York’s UKIP public meeting was not going to be pleasant – and that…
Decolonising Development – thoughts on John Hilary’s Poverty of Capitalism
Policies. Theories. Models. Ideologies. It is fascinating how abstracted our politics have become from real life experiences. A couple of months ago, John Hilary caused quite a stir by calling…
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