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The poverty of privilege politics

In this text from September 2012 the authors argue that privilege politics may not lead us towards a revolutionary perspective.

Privilege. Now there’s a word we are hearing a lot. The concept and finger-pointing of privilege is coming to increasingly concern us as a problem and a poor semblance within the alternative left. We feel not only embarrassed by the simplicity of this undisclosed and undefined overarching theory but concerned that it further leads a stagnant movement down more dire dead ends.

Interview with Catherine from the Climate Camp

Article originally published in the summer of 2007.

The Camp for Climate Action spearheads a radical movement against the “causes of climate change”. What are those causes?

Online articles

Online-only articles from Shift magazine.

Shift #01

The first issue of radical journal, Shift, dated September 2007-January 2008.

Shift #11

Issue 11 of Shift magazine.

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Archive of Shift magazine, a radical journal published in Manchester from 2007-2012, subtitled "against austerity and social control".

International antinationalism!

In this text written by Working Group “Just Do It!” of AntiFa AK Cologne, the authors lay out the perspective of "antinational communism". Published March 2012.

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Homeowners: the gravediggers of capital

Tom Fox casts a critical eye over housing co-operatives. Originally published in January 2012.

It seems a truism in radical politics that if The Guardian starts to like you then something’s gone wrong somewhere.

‘Bout to explode: a day in the life of a precarious worker

As part of Shift Magazine's series on precarity, Juan Conatz describes a day in the work life of a sleep deprived day laborer.

“Damn it, where’s this pinche thing?”

Sometimes when I get real frustrated, a few Spanish curse words enter my vocabulary. My mom would probably be both amused and disappointed.

“Jesus Christ, there ain’t nowhere in here for anything to get lost!”

Occupied with conspiracies? The occupy movement, populist anti-elitism, and the conspiracy theorists

Spencer Sunshine discusses the infiltration of the Occupy movement by conspiracy theorists.

All progressive social movements have dark sides, but some are more prone to them than others.