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Znet Article Wainwright: The Commons, The State and Transformative Politics

Znet Article, January, 13 2008 Hilary Wainwright
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Hilary Wainwright examines how new technology and new forms of organisation are coming together to transform the left and labour movements, political representation and democracy.

Znet Article Wainwright: Democracy diary

Znet Article, December, 14 2007 Hilary Wainwright
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Hilary Wainwright reports from Caracas on Venezuela's referendum - and the next steps towards reform.

Znet Article Wainwright: Dare to Be Disobedient

Znet Article, December, 11 2006 Hilary Wainwright
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'We don't do pillows ... but I could get you an extra blanket." Kind though she was, the night officer at Clydebank police station couldn't turn a stone-floored police cell into a cosy bed and breakfast. I'd been driven back to Glasgow after my ar...

Znet Article Wainwright: Lula and Brazil: Tropical Blair or Axis of Hope?

Znet Article, December, 08 2006 Hilary Wainwright
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Back from four days in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Time now to reflect on President Lula’s re-election for a second term. In the face of a hostile right wing media, Lula’s election seems like a notable victory for the left. After an une...

Znet Article Wainwright: Imagine there's no leaders

Znet Article, October, 09 2006 Hilary Wainwright
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We are a contrary, and often paradoxical, bunch on the left. On the one hand, most of us began our involvement in politics as rebels against authority. We often find it difficult to accept discipline - even self-discipline. Look at the left's tend...

Znet Article Wainwright: Who Will Speak For Us?

Znet Article, March, 25 2006 Hilary Wainwright
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There is a deepening crisis of political representation in the UK. As the main parties narrow the electoral contest to a diminishing patch of ‘centre-ground’, who will give voice to those whose views are unrepresented? Hilary Wainw...

Znet Article Wainwright: It's Never Too Late To Move Beyond The Choices Of The Cold War

Znet Article, February, 27 2006 Hilary Wainwright
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Dear Martin, From Leeds to Oxford, our lives were like an adaptation of Gilbert and Sullivan: I as a "little liberal" and you as a "little communist", your dad as a leader of the Communist party and mine of the Liberals. Both brought up in Yorks...

Znet Article Wainwright: A New Left Turn For Europe

Znet Article, November, 12 2005 Hilary Wainwright
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Members of a pan-European party are optimistic they can create a new political identity for the left, writes Hilary Wainwright Fifteen years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the legacy of communism in Europe is making a new mark in the politica...

Znet Article Wainwright: Europe: Bridging The Emotional Gap

Znet Article, November, 11 2005 Hilary Wainwright
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In search of a fresh argument for the left in Britain to become more European in its thinking and organising, I picked an extraordinary book off my bookshelf: `Europe in Love; Love in Europe’ by Louisa Passerini from the European Universit...

Znet Article Wainwright: Lula's Lament

Znet Article, September, 21 2005 Hilary Wainwright
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'When there is such an overwhelming disaster and you see yourself as part of this disaster, you begin to question your whole life. Why so many years of sacrifice and struggle?' Congressman Fernando Gabeira expresses the feelings of many petistas -...

Znet Article Wainwright: The Remaking of the Left in Europe

Znet Article, September, 10 2005 Hilary Wainwright
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Fifteen years after the collapse of the Soviet bloc, few would expect western Europe's once-powerful communist parties and their various successor organisations to have anything more than the weakest of pulses. But increasingly there are surprisin...

Znet Article Wainwright: WSF on Trial

Znet Article, February, 15 2005 Hilary Wainwright
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With 155, 000 participants from 135 different countries, the fifth World Social Forum held in a specially constructed site in Porto Alegre’s Marinho Park was bigger than ever, and with a wider geographic spread. Yet the future of the WSF w...

Znet Article Wainwright: The Importance of the Local

Znet Article, November, 20 2003 Hilary Wainwright
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Speech at the seminar "The Right to Housing, Municipal Rights in Europe: struggles, analyses and mobilisations"European Social Forum II13 November 2003 I want to make strategic argument, I want to argue for the importance of struggles and strateg...

Znet Article Wainwright: `the Imprisoned Arms Inspector'

Znet Article, October, 04 2002 Hilary Wainwright
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Sixteen years ago this week, an agent of the Israeli secret police, Mossad, enticed the thirty one year old Israeli nuclear technician, Mordechai Vanunu to a romantic weekend in Rome. The agent's code name was 'Cindy' and the romance ended abruptl...

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