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    Key Words: Hauntology

    Mattie Colquhoun unpacks the term hauntology and explains how it can help understand the spectres looming over the present

  • Key words: the pluriverse

    Pluriversal politics offer an eclectic, egalitarian and emancipatory alternative to capitalist modernity, writes Levi Gahman

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    Key words: solidarity

    Solidarity does not simply ‘exist’, explains Mark Steven. It must be built and put into action by all of us, everywhere, together

  • Key words: Innovation

    ‘Innovation’ is often invoked as a byword for progress within capitalism, but as Joe Mayall explains, such progress does not serve everyone equally

  • Key words: Tankie

    Owen Hatherley unpacks one of the most infamous phrases in left-wing infighting

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    Key words: Austerity

    Níall Glynn explains the true function of an economic policy agenda that bolsters capitalism and devastates the working class

  • A champagne cork popping turns into a graph line showing recession

    Key words: Degrowth

    Filka Sekulova explains one of the concepts at the heart of climate and social justice activism

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