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‘No to fear’ — Greece's No protest as it happened - Left Flank
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No to fear’ Greece’s No protest as it happened. Middot; July 4, 2015. A selection of KEVIN OVENDEN’s live posts from the massive No protest in Athens, 3 July 2015. Rally for the No side this evening various different forces calling it in Syntagma Square, central Athens. The rally will be big and militant. But please do not over-read the size of it and so on. The purpose of the rally is to force the reality of the No campaign into the media and also to galvanise active forces on our side. No longer. T...
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Guernica — I – Airminded
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The Next War in the Air. Guernica — I. Cross-posted at Revise and Dissent. Today is the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Guernica. In Basque, Gernika) by German and Italian aircraft during the Spanish Civil War. Even after all the horrors that came after, the very name is still a by-word for terror and barbarism. The story was broken by George Steer. Which published his account on 28 April 1937 under the headlines "The tragedy of Guernica. Town destroyed in air attack". Guernica — II. I heartily recomm...
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Sex and society (1): The prehistoric family - Left Flank
http://left-flank.org/2015/05/07/sex-and-society-1-the-prehistoric-family
Sex and society (1): The prehistoric family. Middot; May 7, 2015. Simon Copland is a freelance writer specialising in sex, culture and the environment. He previously wrote for Left Flank on the Left and Tony Abbott’s inevitable downfall. This is the first post in a six-part series examining the history of sex and the family. These posts and other work from Simon are available on his blog: http:/ simoncopland.com/blog. How did the modern family evolve? What do we need to do to challenge sexual oppression?
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Why we need a Labor for Civil Liberties | Agitate, Educate, Opine
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Agitate, Educate, Opine. On the left-wing of the possible. Subscribe to my newsletter. Why we need a Labor for Civil Liberties. July 28, 2015. Over the past few years, we have seen the emergence of a range of different Labor interest groups. These groups have contributed a lot to the direction the party has taken. They have provided a collective voice that has pressured Labor for better approach on a range of policy matters. Historically, the Society of Labor Lawyers has played that role but it is not ju...
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Greece’s government: No room left for manoeuvre? - Left Flank
http://left-flank.org/2015/04/13/greeces-government-no-room-left-for-manoeuvre
Greece’s government: No room left for manoeuvre? Middot; April 13, 2015. Two hostile intersecting axes are forming against the Syriza-led government in Athens. Together they comprise an increasingly cohered effort to destabilise and defeat the government, to usurp the democratically expressed hope of the Greek people to break from the iron cage of austerity. Far from being the guarantor of democracy and of civil liberties, the EU and Troika institutions have through the imposition of austerity systematic...
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A new British History blog | Hatful of History
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There's more to life than books you know, but not much more. A new British History blog. This is a quick blog just to mention a new blog dedicated to the history of post-war Britain, simply titled British Contemporary History. Not to be confused with the journal. It is the blog of Dr Matt Cooper and has some fascinating stuff on it, including a review of Robert Ford and Matthew Goodwin’s new book on the rise of UKIP. Matt was also behind the ‘We Need to Talk About Dominic’. Seasons in the Sun. May 2, 2014.
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Sex and society (6): Liberation or Equality? - Left Flank
http://left-flank.org/2015/07/15/sex-and-society-6-liberation-or-equality
Sex and society (6): Liberation or Equality? Middot; July 15, 2015. Early Gay Liberation Front protest in NYC. Welcome to the sixth and final blog in the Sex and Society series. Over the past five blogs we’ve looked at the growth of the nuclear family, its connection to class society, and how the oppression of women and queers manifest today. Last time. We looked at love and marriage how our modern manifestations of love continue much of the oppressive nature of the nuclear family. Here, a group of drag ...
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How Rundle misread the Palmer phenomenon - Left Flank
http://left-flank.org/2015/04/18/how-rundle-misread-the-palmer-phenomenon
How Rundle misread the Palmer phenomenon. Middot; April 18, 2015. It’s been less than 12 months since the last federal Budget, yet it seems like an eternity since Clive Palmer managed to break through the Right-Left partisanship that usually accompanies post-Budget discussion. This was the apex of Palmer’s influence on politics, a world away from the report in today’s Fairfax newspapers. As Palmer moved from great destabilizer to backroom dealmaker. Whether Lazarus’s claims are true or not, Palmer ha...
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