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There were more protests in Britain last year than at any time since the 1970s. 
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At long last, the left is asking itself whether power without principle is worth having.
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At the core of Labour’s leadership election is a choice. Not about personalities but about two paths for Labour and Britain. Does Labour stand up to the Tories' miserable and divisive austerity policies, reinvigorating our party as a social movement to oppose them - or do we accept them or some variant of them?
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Now is the time to get active in your opposition to the Conservative government and its cruellest policies
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A misleading fixation on budget deficits has become entrenched despite, not because of, what serious economists had to say.
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They are on the cusp of an electoral breakthrough - and an examination of Green Party policy reveals a extraordinary list of demands
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The UK economy has been in difficulty since the 2008 financial crisis. Tough spending decisions have been needed to put it on the path to recovery because of the huge budget deficit left behind by the last irresponsible Labour government, showering its supporters with social benefit spending. Thanks to the coalition holding its nerve amid the clamour against cuts, the economy has finally recovered. True, wages have yet to make up the lost ground, but it is at least a “job-rich” recovery, allowing people to stand on their own feet rather than relying on state handouts.
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Surprise, surprise, Britain is ruled by an elite of like-minded people from the same middle-class backgrounds. According to the commission on social mobility and child poverty, this should be a “wake-up call”. Something must be done urgently “or nothing will change”. Merit is outgunned by class. Elite recruitment must be “background blind”.
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A cursory glance at the comment section of the UK's leading newspapers suggests that democratic engagement is at an all time low; we are generation apathetic. In their annual health check, the Audit of Political Engagement, the Hansard Society paint a bleak picture of participation trends in Britain. Only 41% of those surveyed are committed to voting in the next General Election. Moreover, less than 1% of the population is a member of a political party. However, 38 Degrees, the political activist movement, bucks these downward trends. In the four years since their foundation in 2009, 38 Degrees have amassed a membership of 1.8 million individuals—more than three times the entire combined memberships of all of Britain’s political parties.
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In current protest culture the estranged ideologies of anarchism and progressive populism are coming together around a critique of the neoliberal “corporate state” and a new imaginary of mass insurgency.
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“I have a vague desire to explore the political world” I said, only a month ago. That very day, I happened to be going to meet Ben Soffa, head of digital for the Jeremy Corbyn campaign. But that feels like a lifetime ago now as since then I’ve spent the vast majority of my time volunteering for that campaign, doing everything from wrangling CSV files to being Jeremy’s bodyguard.
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In six weeks, Labour’s outsider has forced anti-austerity on to the agenda and created a national movement
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The wording is so vague and all-encompassing, that it gives the police a blank cheque to make criminals of all of us, without any of us even committing a crime. Is it not the ultimate in thought crime?
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Democracy is something for everyday, not twice a decade. -- Russell Brand Democracy is something people should do, at the moment most people have it done to them. -- Natalie Bennett Yesterday we ha...
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Politicians can reverse the public’s disenchantment with politics, but only once they fully embrace the digital age
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Buy Honourable Friends?: Parliament and the Fight for Change by Caroline Lucas (ISBN: 9781846275937) from Amazon's Book Store. Free UK delivery on eligible orders.
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This week, stalwarts of the Occupy Democracy campaign in Britain are continuing to stand their ground in Parliament Square. The heavy-handed police crackdown and evictions may have scuppered much of the plans for peaceful and creative demonstrations, but the re-emergence of the Occupy movement is a welcome sight in an increasingly unequal, stressed and disaffected city of London.
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The review, led by Debbie Wosskow, the CEO of Love Home Swap, will unpick the policies and regulations that surround the sharing economy and present a route map for the development of sharing economy in Britain, said the Department for Business Innovation and Skills.
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Could we encourage the Co-op Group to sell its 18,000 acres of farmland to members rather than big business, asks Jim Lee
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We are governed neither by angels nor demons. The value of the state cannot be measured in percentage points or balance sheets. To govern is to wield power: understanding how that power can be channelled for the good of citizens is what politics is fundamentally about. By reducing the debate to one of size and numbers, our politicians do us a disservice.
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