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Twenty years ago, the Scottish Parliament reconvened after 300 years. That election for me, was an election that showed that radical politics COULD make a difference as the Greens and the new Scottish Socialist Party made, what were at the time, surprising and ground shaking breakthroughs. One idea, one seed of change germinated and broke […]
I’ve never been a huge fan of Stuart Campbell. To put it as bluntly as possible, he’s an arsehole. Or maybe I’m just prejudiced – It could be that I took my mum’s tongue-in-cheek warning, while singing the song about and explaining to me the events of the Massacre of Glencoe, to never trust a […]
I just finished watching The Edge of Democracy (Netflix) directed by the filmmaker Petra Costa, in short the film shows the critical points that led to the rise of the extreme right in Brazil today, but not forgetting its painful past with the military dictatorship. I could try to keep myself impersonal while I’m writing […]
Bioma is a feminist queercore band, founded in 2017. The band arises from the encounter of four women from São Paulo (Brazil), carrying a intersectional feminist speech and libertarian (left-wing, anarchist), anti-rascist, anti-LGBTfobia and anti-CIStemic posture. Bioma’s lyrics are a direct reflection of what happens in politics as a whole, as well as the band’s […]
Interview of Áurea Carolina by Nathália Urban (@UrbanNathalia) The world is aware of the absurdity and outbursts of Jair Bolsonaro’s government, but perhaps people do not know that many of their mistaken decisions are facing strong resistance, mainly in the Chamber of Deputies. One of the main voices of this resistance is Deputy Áurea Carolina, […]
Available FREE on iTunes and Podbean After a break, Ungagged is back! Neil Scott rants like a red ham about Brexit, the empire and the climate protests, Debra Torrance and Laura Lundahl tell us to Dare, and Laura also tells us that it will be better! Music from, Phat Bollard, Vokxen, Jackal Trades and Katie MF! Get […]
According to information from the Federal Union of Public servers of Basic, Professional and Technological Education (SINASEFE), the teacher and trade unionist Camila Marques was arrested yesterday morning, (Tues 15/04), at the Aguas Lindas campus of the Federal Institute of Goiás (IFG). She was in class when she was detained. During a statement recorded in […]
The small city I am currently in is 320 miles from Christchurch. This feels more like a small town than a city to me, with a population of just over half a million; even though I only know one other person here, I am not short of friends as people here greet me on the […]
Brazil is a place of many contradictions, inequalities and social struggles with no easy answers. Many have failed to either minimise or even address these problems in the past, but no one has shown so much disregard for them as current president Jair Bolsonaro does. At least, not since the days of dictatorship that plunged […]
The George Collins Book Club When you’re so desperate for book recommendations that you turn to a bald twenty-something burnout for help. Gods above help you. Gerald Horne – The Counter-Revolution of 1776 “[White nationalists] have this very naïve view of the United States. They want to cling to this idea of the Founding Fathers […]