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A new kind of angry brigade lEttErs and noticEboard JErEmy Hardy tHinks...

08 PlattitudEsTheworldaccording to Steve Platt

13 know your EnEmy Back to business as usual

26 mikE marqusEE

No turning back

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tEmPEraturE gaugE Zero carbon Britain booktoPia Nina Power

54 FilmrEviEws

South of the Border and Beyond the Tipping Point?

58 craFt work Matthew herbert talks to Brendan Montague about music, production and capitalism

61 book rEviEws Secret Affairs, More Work! Less Pay!

Speaking Truth to Power, Against the Wall, Dreamers of a New Day

64 classic book tHE sEcond sEx

Simone de Beauvoir’s seminal work is still essential, writes roSie GerMain

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04 red pepper aug | sep 2010 10 acadEmy alarm Fiona Millar takes on the Tories’

academy expansion plans and hank and Jean robertS report on a partial victory in Wembley

14 wElFarE to worklEssnEss The coalition plans to penalise the

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vulnerable, writes robert taylor brEaking tHE goldEn tHrEad anthony arblaSter on the Lib Dems’ abandoned social liberal tradition

22 countEring tHE cuts mytHs

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Red Pepper debunks the myths used to push cuts a nEolibEral assault on womEn tiM hunt and Siobhan McGuirk look at how the cuts will hit women hardest – and the campaigns fighting back

42 idEntity canards The left needs to re-examine its approach to diversity, argues Gary younGe

33 guErrilla guidE Feminist parenting

36 asylum watcH Refusing to be silenced: women and the asylum system

38 tHE militarisEd zonE andrea d’Cruz meets the women who are fighting the militarisation of Israeli society

40 in PicturEs maskulinity alex brew introduces a selection of images from the exhibition me maskuline

34 do you rEmEmbEr olivE morris?

Feminist historian red ChidGey on reclaiming forgotten activist histories

18 our FavouritE miliband hilary wainwriGht and John MCdonnell pick ... Ralph

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MiChael barratt brown celebrates the life of Ken Coates

46wHatwErEtHEytHinking?raShidkhalidionIsrael’sactofstate piracy against the Gaza flotilla

48PaPalbullterryeaGleton says the left should thank the Lord for the Pope

50 natural solidarity The BP oil disaster shows the need to reconnect life and work to the environment, argues david whyte

56 Putting tHE ProtEst back in PridE

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