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    How Assemblies Challenge The Political Class

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    The left knows what it's against. But what comes next?Fresh out of prison, Roger Hallam, co-founder of Extinction Rebellion, Just Stop Oil and Insulate Britain, sits down with journalist Ash Sarkar for a wide-ranging conversation about why progressive politics keeps failing to build mass movements, and what needs to change.Hallam argues that the central problem is not ideology but method. Too ... Read more

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  • Rebel Footprints

    A Guide to Uncovering London's Radical History

    The radical response to conservative heritage tours and banal day-tripper guides, Rebel Footprints brings to life the history of social movements in the capital. Transporting readers from well-known landmarks to history-making hidden corners, David Rosenberg tells the story of protest and struggle in London from the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century.From the suffragettes to the ... Read more

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    The renowned Irish historian delivers "an excellent scholarly reevaluation" of the 1916 Easter Rebellion and the turbulent decade that followed ( Library Journal).On Easter Monday of 1916, the Irish Republican Brotherhood launched an armed uprising against British rule that would continue for six days. But Easter Rising was only the beginning of an ongoing revolutionary struggle. In A Nation and ... Read more

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