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Nuclear spring / Class struggle in a German town: temp workers on the construction site of the Philippsburg nuclear power plant

By Wildcat (Germany) 1 April 2008

On March 26 a Financial Times 'Lex' columnist wrote:"Happily for nuclear power, there are new bogeymen in town.  Flatulent cows an...

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South Africa: All charges against the Kennedy 6 Shack Dwellers dropped

By Abahlali baseMjondolo 1 April 2008

The Kennedy Road shack settlement was were Abahlali baseMjondolo began and although the movement now has 14 affiliated settlements and a further 25 br...

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Report from Chengdu

By Hari Kunzru 26 March 2008

Back in Beijing, after a tense couple of days in Chengdu. The city is the Eastern gateway to Tibet, located at the foot of the mountains. It has a h...

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Death data drive new market

By Sophia Grene (FT Fund Management) 25 March 2008

Courtesy of the Financial Times, the latest news on the financial sector's most self-allegorizing activity: death hedging.  Or more prosaica...

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Outsourcing: lie of the land

By Private Eye (In the Back section) 24 March 2008

From Private Eye, a brief update on the lie detector system soon to be used across the UK on suspected 'benefit thieves'*, i.e. all claimant...

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Open Space

By Walter Seidl 20 March 2008

With the inauguration of Open Space by Gülsen Bal at the beginning of 2008, Vienna’s art scene saw an important enrichment after a number o...

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A lack of trust spells crisis in every financial language - Credit crisis digest

By Gillian Tett 19 March 2008

Great to see the heads of mega banks fulminating against fiction and innuendo as a 'careless talk costs banks' ethos is pounded into their employees a...

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The Conditions of Possibility: Tributes to Marina Vishmidt 1976-2024 (I)

By Mute Collective 6 June 2024

Marina Vishmidt, a much loved and deeply formative contributor for our magazine from its early years, tragically passed away at the end of April. The ...

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Mute Archive Move

By mute 27 June 2022

This June and July the Mute magazine archive is being moved from its current home in a shipping container a hundred miles north of London to a new smaller space in Berlin.

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