Last week Climate Resistance projected demands for a wealth tax on government buildings and landmarks across London. The words “Tax the super-rich” shone on the Houses of Parliament. Text and photos: Climate Resistance and Michelle Sanders Faces of billionaires Roman Abramovich and Jim Ratcliffe also appeared on the walls […]
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A tea house, a traditional British experience
Sitting inside number 110 Shoreditch High Street, I watch passers-by as they peer inside confused and intrigued, most too reserved to enter the quirky one of a kind tea house nestled in the middle of East London. (The Prisma memoirs) Sofia Ahmad To me their bemusement is entirely […]
Through the prism of fire
Slavoj Žižek makes the point, in his introduction to Michael Marder’s “Pyropolitics”, that always pointing to and blaming capitalism for the multifaceted antagonisms and urgencies besetting our world has the drawback of simplistically making the economy the sole culprit. Sean Sheehan The complexities calling for our attention are […]
The ability of Europe to survive in the midst of the crisis
The European Union is a contemporary manifestation of Kant’s fantasy of universal peace. Long condemned as chimerical, his vision is increasingly being realised in Europe. Steve Latham This project of the imagination is, of course, fragile, ever likely to disintegrate into atavistic warfare, as in the Balkans at […]
The series “Fascism”: Can Macrón save us from fascism?
Neither the courts, electoral machinations, the constitution, nor any part of the capitalist system will prevent fascism. In France, the electoral manoeuvres of the “anti-fascist front” have resulted in a victory for Macron’s allies and an elevated status for Marine Le Pen’s far-right faction.
















