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Popular education as a doomed project? - Inga Scathach

Popular Education often appears as a panacea for the anti-authoritarian Left. Inga Scathach looks at the uses and abuses of the term and the practices. Originally published in May 2011.

Huge protests force Chinese government retreat over pollution

Submitted by Django on Jul 10 2012 17:50

Adam Ford discusses the mass protests which forced a defeat on the Chinese state.

Major rent strike against millionaire slumlord catches fire in Brooklyn

Submitted by Redwinged Blackbird on Jul 9 2012 05:03

As foreclosures continue to put historic pressure on the nation’s rental market, slumlords now have more opportunity than ever to prey on the most vulnerable of tenants.

Pisa: the "Nuova Periferia Polivalente" has opened!

Submitted by Italy Calling on Jul 6 2012 20:39

After being left derelict and neglected for 6 years, during which the only intervention by the local authorities has been the building of a wall around the old changing rooms which turned them into a dangerous sewer, Pisa’s sports centre Polisportiva della Fontina has come back to life, and being put to use by hundreds of people of all ages who want a space to hang out and practice sports freely.

Belo Monte dam protest

Submitted by working class s... on Apr 19 2012 07:52

The latest protest against the Amazonian Belo Monte Dam project took place in Washington last Monday (9th of April). This demonstration against the Brazilian government's anti-social and anti-environmental policies took place on the same day that Brazil's president and former revolutionary guerilla Dilma Roussef met Barack Obama. Despite international and indigenous outcry, construction of the world's third largest damn is already under way. With five thousand men at work, nothing seems to stop the government's determination to build this dam.

The Missing Piece of the Jigsaw

Submitted by Ernestine on Mar 18 2012 23:28

Greenwich council's latest plans for the riverside from West Greenwich (by the Millenium dome) to Woolwich were published in February. It is no big surprise that developers have their eye on Charlton and Woolwich - squeezed between the Millenium Village and the Woolwich Arsenal Crossrail site this is one of the last remaining areas on London's Thames where manufacturing industry survives.

Italy: NO TAV against fascism!

Submitted by Italy Calling on Mar 15 2012 21:54

Last Friday 9th March, a small number of militants from the neofascist group Forza Nuova (“New Force”) protested outside the offices of the newspaper Il Giornale in Milan.

Anti-nuclear activists blockade Hinkley Point power station

Submitted by working class s... on Mar 12 2012 16:42

Over 1,000 protestors blockade the entrance to Hinkley Point power station in response to a proposed new nuclear reactor.

Community hubs, pubs, clubs and social centres

Submitted by bulmer on Mar 12 2012 06:12

I suppose this is just a reflection on the importance of communal meeting places that aren't always appreciated in the way they should be as well as the break up and isolation of individuals in communities.