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Hanging by a Thread: Class, Corruption and Precarity in Tunisia

By L.S. 17 January 2012

Looking back beyond the events that triggered Tunisia’s overthrow of President Ben Ali, the systemic corruption of the state’s numerous officials ...

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Arab Revolts Blog #1: Notes on Rentier States and the Stalled Libyan Revolt

By L.S. 21 June 2011

In the first of a blog series aiming to deepen and politicise understandings of the revolts across the Arab world, L.S. kicks off with an anatomisatio...

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Agit Disco collects the playlists of its 23 writers to tell the story of how music has politically influenced and inspired them. The book provides a multi-genre survey of political musics, from a wide range of viewpoints, that goes beyond protest songs into the darker hinterlands of musical meaning.

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Anomie/ Bonhomie & Other Writings

By mute 30 November 2011

In this, his long awaited first book, Howard Slater extemporizes around what Walter Benjamin could have meant by the phrase 'affective classes'. Rathe...

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Social tenants hit by rent hikes

by BeTheMedia - various Isles alt media 22 Feb 2012

Author: richard Manchester’s council tenants face an inflation-busting 6.48 per cent rent hike from April, according to plans signed off by Town Hall chiefs last week. Social ten... more