A new organisation in London wants to learn the lessons of successful social movements abroad, and make the fight against poverty a central focus for grassroots radical politics…
The experience of poverty is all across London, as thick as smog in Victorian times. Not just low wages: bad diet; the unemployed scraping by; little time with [...]

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Walter Kurtz, for those not in the know, is the long standing pseudonym that Peter Kuper uses when he writes autobiographical comics. This is his, or rather Walter Kurtz, life so far. Part memoir, part rites of passage, and part attempt at capturing his thoughts and feelings around the time of having a child. The [...]

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We’ll get it out of the way quickly: this is my album of 2007 without question. Last year I gave their first album, ‘Sing for the enemy’, a fairly ambivalent review. Lil or Household Name said I’d missed the point of the record. How right he was! Still it took me two months to get [...]

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