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Mark Thomas

Red Pepper debate If voting changes so little, what are the means of radical change?
5- 6.30pm, 24 April at Housmans, 5 Caledonian Road
King’s Cross ,
London N1 9DX

A discussion with Hilary Wainwright (author, Reclaim the State), Stuart White (editor, Building a Citizen Society: The Emerging Politics of Republican Democracy ) and Marianne Maeckelberg (author, The Will of the Many: how the alterglobalisation movement is changing the face of democracy)

An alien gaze
Nobel prize-winning novelist Herta Müller’s work casts experiences of oppressive authoritarian regimes in strikingly poetic language, writes Lyn Marven

Objective fiction
Nathaniel Mehr reviews Newspeak in the 21st Century

An anthropology of civil war
Ewa Jasiewicz looks at Austrian film director Michael Haneke’s tenth film The White Ribbon, an unflinching gaze into the elemental roots of ideological violence

Cartoon history
Red Pepper cartoonist Tim Sanders reviews Speechless: World History Without Words by Polyp (New Internationalist and Friends of the Earth International, 2009)

Casement’s quest
The Devil and Mr Casement: One Man’s Struggle for Human Rights in South America’s Heart of Darkness by Jordan Goodman (Verso, 2009). Andy Higginbottom reviews

Comprehensive health check
Dr Wendy Savage reviews Socialist Register 2010: Morbid Symptoms – Health under Capitalism

Nuclear exposure
Lesley Doyal reviews Under the Radar: Cancer and the Cold War by Ellen Leopold (Rutgers University Press, 2009)

The critical struggle of our time
Maddy Power reviews People First Economics by David Ransom and Vanessa Baird (eds) New Internationalist, 2009

Everyone does everything
James O’Nions meets two members of the Italian novel-writing collective Wu Ming as they publish Manituana, their ‘story from the wrong side of history’

Being Tamsin
Kevin Blowe reviews Rush! The Making of a Climate Activist

Booktopia

Which eight books would you take to the ends of the world with you?

Heartfelt pleas for mistreated people and literary denunciations feature on radical lawyer Louise Christian’s reading list

Red Pepper’s new co-editor James O’Nions picks his favourite books

Aki Nawaz on god delusions, the Qur’an and fighting the National Front

Map obsessive Roger Lloyd Pack reckons he could ‘probably walk away with the Mastermind prize with Tintin as my subject’

See more Booktopia’s from Jo Brand and Mark Thomas to Billy Hayes and Paul Mason

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