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Cover story: Energy

Reclaim the power Aneaka Kellay issues a call to action against the corporate oligopoly of energy suppliers

A dirty black hole The scourge of opencast coal mining is driven by our dependence on this dirtiest of fossil fuels, writes Kelvin Mason

Open all powers Kim Bryan on the role of open source technology in the shift towards energy democracy

Extreme energy Charlotte Wilson on the new frontline in the fight against climate change

Power source Emma Hughes reports from Azerbaijan, where autocratic leader Ilham Aliyev uses oil to fund his repressive regime

The resurgent right

Taking on the fruitcakes Richard Seymour considers where UKIP’s vote is coming from and how the left needs to respond

Us and them The racism of the mainstream is feeding the far right, writes Mike Marqusee

Anti-fascism after Woolwich We need to rethink our strategy, argues Justin Baidoo of South London Anti-Fascists

Interview

Persuading the unpersuaded TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady talks about the challenges facing trade unions

Syria

The physio Graphic reportage from the Syrian border, by Jon Sack

In pictures

Dictator on trial Photojournalist James Rodríguez reports from the genocide trial of former Guatemalan dictator Ríos Montt

Plus

Campus campaigning Hattie Craig and Roz Burgin examine the new look of student resistance

Ructions in Rio Sue Branford and Hilary Wainwright investigate Brazil’s protest movement

Mythbuster: Back to class Red Pepper looks at the myths surrounding academies and free schools

Railways: Getting back on track Rail privatisation has failed, but an alternative doesn’t have to mean a new centralised bureaucracy, writes Paul Salveson

And our regulars...

Jeremy Hardy Thinks about the state

Plattitudes The world according to Steve Platt

Justice gap No truck with legal aid ‘reform’

Under the radar Homes of our own

Right to the city Saving the estate

Culture

We are as Gods Hilary Wainwright on an exhibition about 1968’s ‘Google in paperback’: the Whole Earth Catalog

Revolutionary rehearsals Lorna Stephenson looks at theatre groups giving a voice to the voiceless

Not playing by the book Kitty Webster explores the radical world of books for little rebels

A different picture Guy Taylor watches Into the Fire, an important film about refugees in Greece

Book reviews Fortunes of Feminism, Corporate Europe, Soldier Box, Altai, All Knees and Elbows of Susceptibility and Refusal and classic book Bolo’Bolo






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