We have been fighting to get something started in Britain, we’ve been looking to the Arabs (in a remarkable and much appreciated change in point…
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Below are three very different dipatches from friends in London about what’s going on in the streets and in the media: DEPTFORD UNITED, a Lewisham…
Estate by Fugitive Images, Paul Hallam, Victor Buchli, Andrea Luka Zimmerman, Lasse Johansson, Tristan Fennell Paperback, 152 pages Published September 24th 2010 Please buy direct…
This is how much the developed countries spent per capita on healthcare a few years ago, contrasted with average life-expectancy: This is what privatisation with…
It is close to two months now since I lost my father. Just writing those words, acknowledging the finality of them, is an enormous and dreadful…
Saturday’s London march was called by the Trades Union Congress (TUC) and it was absolutely brilliant. In spite of the miles walked I was still…
Once upon a time I was lucky enough to move into a house with a small and completely overgrown garden. So my then-partner Manny and…
Almost no one writes about what happens after the victory, the hard work and daily struggle after the barricades, the factory occupations, the mass mobilizations….
It’s what we did on the 23rd, we did it to hold our own People’s Assembly, and extraordinary it was too! The crowd outside was…
On Saturday I marched. Again. We keep marching. They’re still cutting student funds, and raising student fees after the lib dems promised to get rid…
A piece of my heart will always live in Glasgow. It is a city of incredible warmth and beauty and humour, one that welcomed me…
Check out Celine’s December post for more on the UK protests. There is a battle on in Britain at the moment, over the loss of…
You can arrive at the idea of spatial justice from two directions. The first is theoretical, looking at how many different people have defined space…
London is one of my favorite cities, for its architecture, art, culture, history, diversity, grit, humour…and I am entirely in love with how all of…
Community space! As I stumbled back home late one Friday night after many hours of travel to get from a tiny town in Southern France…
While the economic crisis has hit all of us, and hit us hard, Greece is a country riding the edges of bankruptcy, even after the…
So Mr. T and I have a lot in common. You probably didn’t know that, but it’s true. Apart from our shared love of mohawks,…
Andrea Gibbons, among other things, established SAJE's Research Department with some path-breaking work that uncovered an invisible criminal slumlord empire just by digging into the information...
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The amount you can learn might come as a surprise if you don’t read the sports pages, and possibly even if you do. Last month…
I saw Jane Wills of Queen Mary University of London speak last night on the battle for a living wage in the UK, a great…