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Editorial
New limbs for the left

Taking on the far right

Cover story
Making music matter-love music hate racism
Lena De Casparis and Alex Nunns report on the carnival against racism

Underdog politics
Norway’s Magnus Marsdal takes a long, hard look at the right- wing populism gathering pace across Europe

Nothing is more important
Jon Cruddas and Nick Lowles respond to Magnus Marsdal over the far-right challenge facing the left in Britain

Hammering the BNP
Following the local elections Stuart Weir insists on the importance of arguing back


National

Another politics is possible
Deborah Littman on London Citizens, a new kind of politics in the capital

Essay
When the bucks stop
Jim Stanford looks at the global financial crisis and what it means to the left


Culture

Smoking the celestial dream (extract online)
As the western world winds its way through the 40th anniversaries of 1968 and the ‘summer of love’, Steve Platt considers the great dope myths of the ‘counter culture’ and its enemies

Nobody does it better
Sort out your suncream and your waterproofs and get ready for the British summer festival season, says Stuart Clarke. With our ‘Best of British’ festival listings

The power to prevail
The Human Rights Watch international film festival promised to highlight the power of the human spirit. Angela Saini wasn’t disappointed

What do they know of cricket?
Cricket writers often have a radical pedigree that surprises. Mike Marqusee and Rob Steen round up some of the best cricket books


Art and politics special

Life in the art world part 2
Peter Suchin, Rena Gimpel, the Free Art Collective and others respond to John Slyce and Peter Kennard’s article on art and social change from our last issue


International

Ocupar, Producir, Resistir
Dave Whyte and Leticia Gavernet tell the story of Argentina’s ‘recovered factories’ movement

A different picture (extract online)
Claire Davenport looks at how the media is reporting the war in Iraq

The architecture of occupation
Sarah Irving shows us the historic city of Nablus being reshaped by urban warfare and Michael Kustow offers a dramatic introduction to the work of architect Eyal Weizman

Keeping women down
Journalist and photographer Chris Sands on the suffocation of Afghanistan’s women

Colombia focus (extract online)
Colombia’s civil war spills over
In a remarkable interview, Ecuador’s president, Rafael Correa gives a savage account of his Colombian counterpart, preside Alvaro Uribe

Blood on Britain’s hands
Why is the government supporting Colombia’s army? Jeremy Dear argues that a change of policy is overdue


Plus regulars

Agony Subcomandauntie
Do what I say, not what I inhale

Asylum Watch
A grim alternative to detention

Plattitudes
The world according to Steve Platt

Temperature Gauge
Stefan Skrimshire on catastrophism

Natural Born Rebel
Jackie Schneider talks to Andrea d’Cruz

Booktopia
George Monbiot

Rearview
Firehouse Kustom Rockart Company


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