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  • A black and white illustration of Tom Palmer aka 'Agent Kingfisher

    Who killed Agent Kingfisher?

    Tom Palmer, aka Agent Kingfisher, was the ‘messiah’ of London’s squatting scene until his death last year. But who was responsible for his fate? MI5, late capitalism or simply a drug overdose? Matt Broomfield investigates.

  • A tent with cardboard signs reading in Turkish that it is a veterinarian clinic

    ‘In Gezi Park there is free food, medical care, a kids’ area and a library’

    Ece Bulut gives us the latest from Istanbul’s Gezi Park, and looks at how the movement is organising – and changing people

  • Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello surrounded by a crowd playing a guitar

    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

  • A black and white photograph of Rosa Luxemburg

    Rosa Luxemburg’s capital ideas

    Ingo Scmidt discusses the relevance of Rosa Luxemburg’s The Accumulation of Capital

  • A plant growing next to a road in Berlin, surrounded by a pebble stone curb

    Dig for victory

    Armed with nothing more than trowels and a vision, guerilla gardeners are part Alan Titchmarsh, part Che Guevara. Their green acts of disobedience are transforming cityscapes around the world, Joanne Clarkson writes