They’re not on our side On January 11 Paul McKeever, chair of the Police Federation, publicly hinted that police forces may demonstrate over job cuts. Due to the same budget cuts the Coalition government is pushing across public services, as many as 20,000 police force jobs are under threat. This has prompted an extensive internet […]
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Letters
Letters: Your letters to the newspaper Various letters The Paper received and discussions that people started in response to the call for a first editorial meeting. The Paper is an interesting idea, but not without problems in my view. What is the basis for this paper, for example? Has it come out of a defined […]
Inside and Outside the Kettle
SASKIA FISCHER There are many ways to read and feel the kettle. The thing is to climb out of it. Slippery as its walls may be, find a grip, crack a hole, let the rage pour out and the rest of you with it. Make that rage a thing you can examine, learn from. Lest […]
How to Make a Collective Newspaper. The Pedagogy* of Working Otherwise
In this edition of The Paper we ask ourselves: what are the lessons and what is to be learned from making a collective newspaper? In this edition of The Paper we ask ourselves: what are the lessons and what is to be learned from making a collective newspaper? As many of us have experienced in […]
Hope Against Hope: A necessary betrayal
Visions of Hope A single image from a day of movement marks out competing visions of hope. A boot through a Millbank window fed the dreams of resistance that many in the Left have been craving since talk of austerity started. The same boot posed a question that plays out in the university occupations that […]
A Strike In Tower Hamlets
RACHEL DRUMMOND : For those of us who work in Further Education, cuts are nothing new. In September, 2009 I took part in indefinite strike action by lecturers at Tower Hamlet’s College. That sunny strike seems a long, long time ago now in this dark winter, but we need to keep re-remembering and re-learning what […]
Valentines in Paris
Edu-factory Speed Dating for Student Movements, Paris, 11 – 13 February If you’re lucky enough to be planning Valentine’s Day in Paris with someone you love, you’re not likely to come away disappointed. The city of light seems to be synonymous with romance, so finding things to do for this special occasion shouldn’t prove too […]
Translations
Practice with Translations Translation is a practice. And as with every practice, there are politics in translation. The translation of the powerful reduces every experience from another context into a sentence coherent in a closed logic of language and singularly located experience. Our translation rails against this and looks for something different. It is about […]
Arrest As Means
EDDIE MOLLOY The past few months have witnessed the mass arrest of hundreds of students protesting the most recent and potentially fatal government onslaught on higher education. Arrest as means to inhibit public protest through victimisation has been coupled with mass detention without trial, charge or legal basis in a practice that is euphemistically known […]
Our Violence
DR YOJO QUEEQUEG – Violence “For law-preserving violence is a threatening violence. And its threat is not intended as the deterrent that uninformed liberal theorists interpret it to be.” Our Violence – police Rather than focusing on acts of violence carried out by police, rather than peering at Westminster through lines of state control, we must […]