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03 Editorial Solidarity not charity

06 Letters & Noticeboard Jeremy Hardy thinks

08 Plattitudes The world according to Steve Platt

13 Know your enemy Atos: tick-box tyranny

24 Mike Marquse Biblical justice

39 Guerrilla guides Cyber-activism

53 Natural born rebel School of struggle

66 Booktopia Celia Hewitt

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58 In pictures: Agi-Tate The dramatic work of art activists

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Liberate Tate

Film The action hero GETS political Severed limbs – and a large splatter of anti-capitalism.

Raph Schlembach watches Machete

61 Music Recreating records Red Pepper talks to Illegal Art founder Philo Farnsworth

62 Book reviews Dancing with Dynamite, The Verso Book of Dissent, Whose Crisis Whose Future?,

Beating the Fascists, Jilted Generation, The Great Transformation

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04 red pepper feb | mar 2011 10 Alliance of defiance Jim Cranshaw and Emma Hughes talk to local anti-cuts campaigners

14 ‘Don’t blame us, guv!’ Can local councillors resist the cuts?

chael Calderbank investigates

26 Poverty is political Sue Branford opens our special section celebrating 60 years of War on Want with a look back at its history

30 Women’s work Maria Luisa Regalado profiles the Honduran feminist workers’ organisation Codemuh

32 Behind the seams Laia Blanch speaks to Bangladeshi garment workers’ leader Amirul Haque Amin

34 Organising on the edge Caroline Elliot reports on a wave of informal economy organising in sub-Saharan Africa

48 Crack capitalism or reclaim the state?

John Holloway and Hilary Wainwright debate strategy and tactics for social change

36 For the record Val Swain on how the police are set to grab even more ‘intelligence’ data

18 Resistance begins at home Isabel Parott on what can be done to tackle the housing cuts

22 Big deal Richard Goulding investigates the reality behind the Big Society rhetoric

40 The Casualties Of War Siobhan McGuirk and maria felix look at the effects of Mexico’s ‘war on drugs’

45 Waking the generals Amrit Wilson shares memories of

Grunwick strike leader Jayaben Desai

46 The creaking European austerity machine

Austerity could spell the end for the euro, argues Leigh Phillips

24 Small movers in the big society onald Morison reports on a community social enterprise in Salford

20 Higher education:

the lie-busting low-down Cristina Delgado Garcia and Luke Yates explain why university cuts aren’t fair or needed

54 Cancún calamity The agreement reached at the climate talks was a step backwards, writes Nick Buxton

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