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‘No to fear’ — Greece's No protest as it happened - Left Flank

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No to fear’ Greece’s No protest as it happened. Middot; July 4, 2015. A selection of KEVIN OVENDEN’s live posts from the massive No protest in Athens, 3 July 2015. Rally for the No side this evening various different forces calling it in Syntagma Square, central Athens. The rally will be big and militant. But please do not over-read the size of it and so on. The purpose of the rally is to force the reality of the No campaign into the media and also to galvanise active forces on our side. No longer. T...

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Anti-politics: Elephant in the room - Left Flank

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Anti-politics: Elephant in the room. Middot; October 31, 2013. They don’t represent us’ Spanish. By ELIZABETH HUMPHRYS and TAD TIETZE. At a certain point in their historical lives, social classes become detached from their traditional parties. In other words, the traditional parties in that particular organisational form, with the particular men who constitute, represent, and lead them, are no longer recognised by their class (or fraction of a class) as its expression. Selections From The Prison Notebooks.

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Sex and society (1): The prehistoric family - Left Flank

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Sex and society (1): The prehistoric family. Middot; May 7, 2015. Simon Copland is a freelance writer specialising in sex, culture and the environment. He previously wrote for Left Flank on the Left and Tony Abbott’s inevitable downfall. This is the first post in a six-part series examining the history of sex and the family. These posts and other work from Simon are available on his blog: http:/ simoncopland.com/blog. How did the modern family evolve? What do we need to do to challenge sexual oppression?

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Sex and society (2): The rise of the nuclear family - Left Flank

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Sex and society (2): The rise of the nuclear family. Middot; May 15, 2015. Before the rise of the plough, society in Egypt was matriarchal. Simon Copland is a freelance writer specialising in sex, culture and the environment. This is the second post in a six-part series examining the history of sex and the family. The first post can be found here. These posts and other work from Simon are available on his blog: http:/ simoncopland.com/blog. How did nuclear families become the norm? In last week’s post.

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Greece’s government: No room left for manoeuvre? - Left Flank

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Greece’s government: No room left for manoeuvre? Middot; April 13, 2015. Two hostile intersecting axes are forming against the Syriza-led government in Athens. Together they comprise an increasingly cohered effort to destabilise and defeat the government, to usurp the democratically expressed hope of the Greek people to break from the iron cage of austerity. Far from being the guarantor of democracy and of civil liberties, the EU and Troika institutions have through the imposition of austerity systematic...

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Sex and society (4): Capitalism & gay oppression - Left Flank

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Sex and society (4): Capitalism & gay oppression. Middot; June 19, 2015. I don’t support gay marriage despite being a Conservative. I support gay marriage because I’m a Conservative. This statement by British Prime Minister David Cameron was heralded by many as a major win for gay and lesbian people. Lesbian and gay rights had now, it seemed, moved away from being a narrow concern of the Left to become a mainstream issue. With that, full equality was now within reach. Much like the story of the patriarchy.

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Sex and society (6): Liberation or Equality? - Left Flank

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Sex and society (6): Liberation or Equality? Middot; July 15, 2015. Early Gay Liberation Front protest in NYC. Welcome to the sixth and final blog in the Sex and Society series. Over the past five blogs we’ve looked at the growth of the nuclear family, its connection to class society, and how the oppression of women and queers manifest today. Last time. We looked at love and marriage how our modern manifestations of love continue much of the oppressive nature of the nuclear family. Here, a group of drag ...

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Sex and society (3): Capitalism & women’s oppression - Left Flank

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Sex and society (3): Capitalism & women’s oppression. Middot; June 1, 2015. How are capitalism and women’s oppression connected? In my last blog post we discussed the rise of the nuclear family. And the connection between the class system and the shift in roles between men and women. This week we’re going to explore how modern capitalism has perpetuated the oppression of women. This feminist charge against Engels was led by Simone De Beauvoir, who in her groundbreaking book The Second Sex. In other words...

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The Greens after Milne: Running out of options? - Left Flank

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The Greens after Milne: Running out of options? Middot; May 8, 2015. Di Natale on ABC 730 after winning the leadership. The sudden departure of Christine Milne as Greens leader apparently kept so secret that even many of her staff didn’t know she was plotting a transition with Richard Di Natale, Scott Ludlam and Larissa Waters is a logical outcome of the party’s impasse since its electoral high point in 2010. And drawing on the technocratic strand. Point to compromises with a weak and insecure Abbott gov...