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03 Editorial Less capitalism, more planet

06 Letters and Noticeboard Jeremy Hardy Thinks...

08 Plattitudes The world according to Steve Platt

14 Under the radar Community coalition

24 Mike Marquse Spreading the pain

31 Natural born rebel Indigenous insight: Hugo Blanco

37 Know your enemy New radicals: the Tea Party

54 Finally making the grade Made in Dagenham didn’t tell the whole story. John Bohanna takes up the tale, with pictures by Carlos Guarita

56 Political designs for OUR Times

An interview with Josh MacPhee and Alec Icky Dunn of Signal, a new journal of international political graphics and culture

59 The ninth art mets the fourth estate eigh Phillips traces the emergence of comic-book journalism

66 Banners high Peter Lazenby reviews an exhibition of the work of Britain’s most important trade union banner maker

62 Book reviews Meat: a benign extravagance, Pornland: how porn has hijacked our sexuality, The Language of Silence, The Rise of the Green Left, What Would it Mean to Win?, In and Against the State

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n Matt Hanley speaks to hip hop storyteller Baba Brinkman n Brendan Montague on the smartphone apps every activist needs PLUS How are community and voluntary organisations affected by the cuts and the ‘big society’? We are working with Manchester Metropolitan University’s Community, Audit and Evaluation Centre on this. Send your experiences to Carrie Packham at caec@mmu.ac.uk

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