Alternative economies
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Cybersyn and Allende’s socialist internet
Leigh Phillips tells the story of Cybersyn, Chile’s experiment in non-centralised economic planning which was cut short by the 1973 coup
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The local: for and against
Greg Sharzer argues that movements have to confront the capitalist crisis, not carve spaces away from it. Below, Hilary Wainwright writes that we must avoid the false dichotomy between organising locally and on a broader stage
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‘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
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Occupy: a turning point in US politics?
Siobhan McGuirk visits the Occupy camp in Washington DC
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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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Rosa Luxemburg’s capital ideas
Ingo Scmidt discusses the relevance of Rosa Luxemburg’s The Accumulation of Capital
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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
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