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Download a copy of The Paper Edition Zero The people who disobey. The people who resist in the obscurity of everyday life. The people who, when forgotten too long, remind the world of their existence and break into history without prior notice… There is no oppression without resistance. There is only time stretching more or […]
March 6, 2011
The Paper’s mailbox was full this month with letters, comments and questions from friends and foe. So don’t be shy and keep ‘em coming. — I freelance for the Evening Standard. Simple question – is it not irresponsible to give thousands of cash-strapped students a detailed step-by-step guide to shoplifting in a newspaper part-funded by […]
March 6, 2011
Dora Kaliayev from the University for Strategic Optimism stirs up a media storm in a (stolen) tea cup and pours hot on it all If we accept this idea, that the revolutionary enterprise of a man or of a people originates in their poetic genius…we must reject nothing of what makes poetic exhalation possible. If […]
March 6, 2011
MORTEN PAUL What do academics do, when they go on strike?” our professor asked during one of the many discussions last autumn, only to give the answer immediately “They use the additional time to work on their research”. His question was intended to encourage a more self- conscious perspective on the protests. It presupposed a fundamental […]
March 6, 2011
EDDIE MOLLOY What were the features of those heady days back in November and December when it seemed that 16 year olds were making the government shake and a new movement was in the pangs of birth? What excited us so as missiles were hurled and cavalry charged? For now we find ourselves on the other […]
March 6, 2011
Surrounded by institutions and universities, there is newly occupied space where education can be re-imagined. Amidst rising fees and mounting pressure for ‘success’, we value knowledge in a different currency: one that everyone can afford to trade. In this school, skills are swapped and information shared, culture cannot be bought or sold. Here is an autonomous […]
March 6, 2011
Compulsory voluntary work is set to becomes a permanent fixture in our welfare system. Dave Riddle gives a first hand account of being put in place(ment). I have been referred to Working Links, my local (part private, part government- funded) “employment provider”. I am expected to attend from 9:30am until 4pm, Monday to Friday without […]
March 6, 2011
ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) provision now faces its biggest attack yet. Eligibility changes proposed by the government will mean that in many places around 70 per cent of students will no longer be eligible for funded courses. Under the government strategy on skills, the only people eligible for full funding are those on […]
March 6, 2011
What is politics made of? Jodi Dean takes a look at technological determinism, affect and communicative capitalism. Networked cultures and social media are embedded in communicative capitalism, a form of capitalism where communication itself is a productive force. Our words and energies, our opinions and critiques, provide media content, commodified spectacle. The few profit from the […]
March 6, 2011
ANONYMOUS That Friday in January 2011 will be a day that my six workmates and I will never forget. At 10 a.m. UK border agents entered our workplace saying that they had received a report about people working illegally there. For my mates and I it was a crushing blow because seven out of the nine […]
March 6, 2011
Interview with a parent We put our son down on the waiting list for the nearest nursery when he was two weeks old, because we had been warned that there were long waiting lists. I was due to start back part-time at my old job after Christmas when my son turned one and thought that […]
March 6, 2011
Our reporter in Manchester counts the good eggs and the bad VIRINDER S KALRA The follow up to the TUC/ Students Against the Cuts demonstration in Manchester on 29 January has been a media led storm about the supposed chanting of ‘Tory Jew’ at Aaron Porter, NUS President. The Daily Mail, that bastion of progressive […]
March 6, 2011
FEDERICO CAMPAGNA Recently, I have been asked several times by Italian friends and comrades to talk about the British student movement. I must confess that their questions always made me feel slightly embarrassed. At first, I tried to forget about this uncomfortable feeling, talking about the rise of a new civic participation, which had been lacking […]
March 6, 2011
The announcement of new US sanctions repeats a tragic scenario all too familiar, the second time as farce VIJAY PRASHAD When Colonel Muammar al-Qaddafi overthrew King Idris in 1969, Libyans heaved a sigh of relief. Idris had sucked the oil profits of this oil-rich country for his own betterment. Little went to a population that […]
March 6, 2011
As the cuts in higher education start to be felt, PhD students in the School of Geography, University of Leeds are making plans and getting organised. Hourly paid postgraduate teaching assistants at the School of Geography, University of Leeds, have been informed that that their wages are to be cut by half, as university departments […]
March 6, 2011
Britain’s Plebs Magazine was established in 1909 and connected students at the Ruskin School (Oxford) with a vast network of affiliated worker self-education groups across the UK. The Plebs Magazine and its associated pamphlets were generated through collective readings, discussion, and analysis of texts and social circumstances. Adult education reading groups developed perspectives of radical […]
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