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Chile: The first dictatorship of globalisation

When General Pinochet overthrew Salvador Allende’s left-wing government in Chile, Mike Gatehouse was among the thousands of activists arrested. On the 40th anniversary of the coup he describes the hope and then the horror of the time

Allende’s socialist internet

Leigh Phillips tells the story of Cybersyn, Chile’s experiment in non-centralised economic planning which was cut short by the 1973 coup

David Harvey interview: The importance of postcapitalist imagination

From housing to wages, David Harvey says examining capitalism's contradictions can point the way towards an alternative world

Taking on the ‘fruitcakes’: how can we stop UKIP?

The breakthrough for UKIP in May’s local elections raises the danger of a long‑term shift to the right in British politics. Richard Seymour considers where UKIP’s vote is coming from and how the left needs to respond

Azerbaijan: The pipeline that would fuel a dictator

Emma Hughes reports from Azerbaijan, where autocratic leader Ilham Aliyev is using the country’s fossil fuel wealth to fund his repressive regime and buy Europe’s silence

Homes of our own: the growing student co-operative movement
Sean Farmelo is part of a group of Birmingham students involved in setting up a new student housing co-op

Editorial: All power to the community
We don’t have to just cross our fingers and hope for a revolution before the planet fries, writes James O'Nions

Persuading the unpersuaded - Frances O’Grady interview
As Frances O’Grady prepares to give the first speech by a woman TUC general secretary to its annual Congress, Red Pepper spoke to her about the challenges facing the trade union movement today

Anti-fascism after Woolwich
The sudden resurgence of an apparently dwindling English Defence League after Lee Rigby’s murder at Woolwich suggests anti-fascists need to rethink their strategy, argue South London Anti-Fascists

Jeremy Hardy thinks... about the state
'Not the state we like, which is about schools and hospitals, but the other one'

Us and them: how the far right feed off the racism of the mainstream
Contrary to right-wing myth, Britain’s imperial past goes largely unexamined, so its assumptions remain active in forming our views, writes Mike Marqusee


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Into the Fire: a different picture of Greece

Guy Taylor watches an important and urgent film about refugees in Greece caught between the repression of Fortress Europe and the street violence of Golden Dawn

Revolutionary rehearsals

Lorna Stephenson looks at theatre groups giving a voice to the voiceless – and making social change happen in the process

Fighting a plague

Mark Pendleton reviews two film histories of the inspiring story of AIDS activism in the US

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