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Download a copy of Edition Two To call to account, account for something, be of account. ‘To count’ can mean to tally or calculate but also to matter, esteem or to have importance. It is in the interstices of these literal and idiomatic meanings of measure that this issue of The Paper precariously sits. Measure is […]
April 30, 2011
Everytime me drive me car police a stop me superstar True me drive a fiat and a Mercs, Sell weh me Lancia So more time when me go a Esat London fe check some cockneys Them a tell me to produce insurance, license and M.O.T. but me say…….. Police Officer no give me producer Police […]
April 30, 2011
More lettuce to chew over from our readers. Dangerous Alliances: Class and the Student Movement, Edition Zero is really very interesting and beautifully written. Reminds me of Pasolini’s Valle Giulia but, just like Pasolini’s poem, I think there might be a problem in your argument. Whether you’re from Oxbridge or Croydon shouldn’t count in a […]
April 30, 2011
Joe Rigby weighs in on the debate over the value of different forms of immigration and argues that neo-racism prevents questioning of how immigration came to be constituted as a problem at all. Numbers, limits and caps, or more precisely, their real, purported and/or threatened transgressions, are key operators in the construction of the so […]
April 30, 2011
The imperative to tell of horror means giving up the horror of horror. A false economy of mourning, a gift that returns only more horror for those most at risk. DANIEL MOSHENBERG In the last half-century, the so-called `strong passport’ so-called democracies have turned the application for asylum into a criminal justice procedure. The myth […]
April 30, 2011
TOM GILLESPIE, ANDRE PUSEY, BERTIE RUSSELL & LEON SEALEY-HUGGINS A schoolmaster is a productive labourer when, in addition to belabouring the heads of the scholars, (s)he works like a horse to enrich the school proprietor. That the latter has laid out his capital in a teaching factory, instead of in a sausage factory, does not […]
April 30, 2011
In the following section, we asked several contributors to reflect upon a month of movement. March saw actions at universities continue, resistance erupt on the streets and London play host to one of the largest demonstrations in over a decade. What follows are reports of struggles and also articles discussing the March 26th demonstration. A […]
April 30, 2011
ANONYMOUS 21 March – the eve of the first day of stop work by the University College Union (UCU), Goldsmiths students took a step that would demonstrate concrete solidarity and open up the possibility of new avenues of resistance. We occupied the opulent headquarters of Goldsmiths Senior Management Team at Deptford Town Hall (DTH). This […]
April 30, 2011
ADAM HUTCHINGS March 26th saw one hundred billion people descend upon London to protest the cuts. Said Brendan Barber, leader of the TUC on the largest gathering in the history of mankind, “It was a great turn out.” In Hyde Park, as the march began, Labour’s Ed Miliband said, “This just shows how angry the […]
April 30, 2011
NIC BEURET March 26th saw over half a million people take to the streets of London to protest against the latest regime of austerity, cuts and social reorganisation. This multitude of bodies had no one single (or simple) demand. Their dissent flowed through select channels on the day; three well worn acts of an old […]
April 30, 2011
Blackness is testament to the fact that objects can and do resist / Fred Moten, In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition After March 26th the term ‘Black bloc’ became part of the lexicon of the mainstream media. Black bloc was turned into a convenient catch-all term. It was made to stand in for […]
April 30, 2011
LAURA SCHWARTZ In March this year university lecturers went on strike against the reform of their pension scheme which included forcing employees to pay more while their employers pay less, and ending the final salary scheme for anyone new to the workforce. Picket lines went up in every university across Britain totalling five strike days. […]
April 30, 2011
RACHEL DRUMMOND Despite the fact that the cuts are not hitting workers in specific schools yet, enough people came out to partially or entirely close every school in the borough. After picket lines were held, a few hundred people met at Weavers Fields and got ready to march. I’d walked with my schools around the […]
April 30, 2011
The death of Smiley Culture when Police raided his home on Tuesday 15 March is a tragedy to outrage and galvanise the Black community and their friends. Two big events so far and another one planned for May 7 mean this call for justice cannot be swept away with the usual Po-lies Con-plain-ts self-investigation committee. […]
April 30, 2011
Reflecting on The Paper as a very serious play at theatre; the political as a theatrical serious playing at paper, and 1001 stories to tell, in pictures. JOHN HUTNYK As bombs still rain down on Libya, with cockpit-cam night video peep-show footage of tanks being destroyed to preserve the No-Fly Zone on our 24-hour news […]
April 30, 2011
Marriage is sacred. Marriage is all about love matches. Oh, and money. Also politics, and property. And reproduction, don’t forget reproduction. And ideology. But mostly love. Here is a guide to making sure your lovely papers are in order. 0: Be rich (or start saving) This revenue-generating exercise will cost well in excess of £3500 […]
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