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We can’t go on like this

Editorial: Now to fight the cuts - James O’Nions

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After the election

Not about us
Election roundup from Jim Jepps

A Brighton shade of Green
Caroline Lucas interviewed

The Lib Dems and the left
James Graham from the Social Liberal Forum gives his views

Making votes count
The struggle for electoral reform must be a high priority for the left, says Billy Bragg

After the deluge
Barking after the BNP by Michael Calderbank

A distinctive purpose
Laurie Penny and Hilary Wainwright did the round of post-election think-ins about the future of the Labour Party

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Essay

Feminism: now for the good news
The feminist movement is still alive and kicking writes Catherine Redfern. Laurie Penny responds

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Interview

Beyond the dross
John Pilger in conversation with Steve Platt about journalism today

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Alternatives

We are the crisis of capital
John Holloway argues cracks in the capitalist system are a space for the left

Workers’ co-ops
Tim Hunt looks at what role workers’ co-operatives could play in bringing about social change PLUS Dave Whyte visits ‘recovered factory’ Prisme packaging in Dundee

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Equality

Mine the gap
Jon Robins looks at the battles still raging 40 years after the Equal Pay Act

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Green Pepper

Blue rage
Direct action conservationists are turning their attention to protecting fish stocks. Wietse Van Der Werf reports

Are we too many?
Andy Lockhart is concerned by the arguments about ‘overpopulation’

The agroecoligical activist
Alex Kawakami, from Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) speaks to James O’Nions

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Plus

South Africa’s own goal
Ashwin Desai and Patrick Bond investigate the impact of the World Cup

Based out
Grace Livingstone on US military bases in Latin America

In pictures: Eyewitness Afghanistan
Chris Sands’ looks at life in a country where the promise of freedom is crumbling

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Culture

Slash and burn at the beeb
What’s the future for the BBC? Siobhan McGuirk speaks to key figures

Rhyme and reason
Radical rapper Lowkey talks to Pablo Navarrete

Journal de combat
Emilie Bickerton reviews French film journal Cahiers du Cinema

And four pages of book reviews

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Regulars

Plattitudes 

The world according to Steve Platt

Mike Marqusee 

Fighting a protean force

Under the radar _Trouble at the sausage factory

Guerilla Guides
Zine team

Know Your Enemy 

Fiscal fire-raisers

Booktopia 

Helena Kennedy

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