Activism
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Samba-fusion: marching to our own drums
Victor Max Smith explores the history of samba-fusion and its role in protest movements over two decades
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Young, left and marginalised
Emma Frith explores how young activists are regularly ignored and dismissed in politics – and why those on the left must not fall into this pattern
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International solidarity: lessons from Bolivia
Bolivia Solidarity Campaign co-founder Amancay Colque recalls the experiences that shaped her Bolivian solidarity work
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How the first Gulf War shaped the British left
Thirty years on from the first Gulf War, Evan Smith considers how it exposed the limitations in the British left’s ability to build a mass movement
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‘Faster, faster, faster’: The diary of a hotel cleaner
In the opening post of a new blog project, the anonymous ‘Maid in London’ describes her first day cleaning a luxury London hotel
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Birth of a new movement: Occupy goes global
Today there was hardly a city in the world not touched by the occupations, writes Niamh Flynn
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Behind a student kettle
Tabitha Troughton reports from the December 9 fees demonstration
