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There were more protests in Britain last year than at any time since the 1970s. 
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Journalist Paul Mason discusses capitalism, Middle East correspondent Patrick Cockburn explores ISIS, and Laura asks what’s missing from the LGBTQ Prid
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The right’s attitude to migration could get even nastier, but a Remain vote will offer Labour a fresh chance to reconnect with ‘red Ukip’
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Article and images cross-posted from Make Resources Count. Written by Paul Hallows The average power drill is used for just 13 minutes in its lifetime. We clearly don’t all need to own one, and they’re often too pricey for many people to buy them in the first place -- meaning a whole lot of untapped creativity and a huge amount of wasted money. And it’s not just drills which are expensively gathering dust in cupboards.
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"Mapping a community’s needs and resources is one of the first things that many community groups do, when beginning their journey into local change-making. See also this post from the Transition Network that positions community mapping within the context of lots of other “ingredients” needed for community change-making (The term ‘ingredients’ is the Transition term for patterns in pattern language).
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Blockchain is fast becoming the buzzword of 2016 as many industries are starting to realise just how revolutionary the technology could be.
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News: Report says everything from passport distribution to healthcare could be improved by the Bitcoin like technology.
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The evolution of the 'sharing economy', where friends and strangers pool resources to help out, has seen household bills significantly slashed
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The global sharing economy is the biggest financial phenomenon of the 21st Century: and thankfully the UK finds itself right at the heart of it
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Jeremy Corbyn has got the big calls right and paved the way for a Labour victory in 2020.
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Demonstrations including a mass ‘die-in’ outside parliament planned to coincide with expected announcement of sweeping cuts to benefits
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Filmed in December 2014, this video takes a look at life at Greenham Reach, a cluster of three new affordable smallholdings for new entrants to ecological agriculture.…
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Photo courtesy of Co-operatives UK: Debbie Harley, a worker and director of Delta-T Devices, a thriving environmental science instruments worker co-operative, checks in on an installation. Worker co-operatives tend to be smaller than conventional businesses and struggle to find investment, right? Well, not necessarily, according to new research into worker co-ops.c
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Peer-to-peer marketplaces like airbnb and uber face hurdles but transactions in the sharing economy sector are predicted to increase 20-fold by 2025
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This article considers the relation between basic income, questions of housing and issues of access to land.
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Popular participation, social ideals and ecological sustainability are key attributes of sustainable systems, Claire Fauset writes.
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Support community initiatives by walking from Devon to Dorset, says Jonny Gordon-Farleigh.
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A group of prize-winning young co-operatives have joined forces to set up a national young co-operators network. In 2014, AltGen, which helps 18-29 year ol
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Sir Mark Walport recommends using Blockchain technology to get the biggest possible benefits for the United Kingdom.
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The Maker Movement is starting to make an impact in the UK schooling system. Declan Cassidy from MakerClub reckons it will make teaching more fun and relevant. Find out how your school can get involved.
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A remarkable new map of Britain shows how the nation was forged by successive waves of immigration from continental Europe over 10,000 years since the end of the last Ice Age.
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“I have a vague desire to explore the political world” I said, only a month ago. That very day, I happened to be going to meet Ben Soffa, head of digital for the Jeremy Corbyn campaign. But that feels like a lifetime ago now as since then I’ve spent the vast majority of my time volunteering for that campaign, doing everything from wrangling CSV files to being Jeremy’s bodyguard.
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At long last, the left is asking itself whether power without principle is worth having.
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In six weeks, Labour’s outsider has forced anti-austerity on to the agenda and created a national movement
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