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	<title>The Comment Factory &#187; Matt Kennard</title>
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		<title>The people of Bolivia are rising and provide us with hope</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:08:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Kennard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Resistance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bolivia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The backbone of Morales's reform programme was the creation of a new Bolivian constitution, which was ratified by a public referendum in 2009. Morales has signalled that he will make the implementation of the new constitution his main legislative priority at the start of his second term. In a country that is often compared to apartheid South Africa, as the stark divisions of poverty and inequality are marked along racial lines, this constitution represents Bolivia's Freedom Charter]]></description>
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		<title>Radiohead&#8217;s Thom Yorke on David Cameron, Gordon Brown, Nick Cohen and Noam Chomsky (unpublished transcript)</title>
		<link>http://www.thecommentfactory.com/radiohead-frontman-thom-yorke-unpublished-transcript-on-david-cameron-gordon-brown-nick-cohen-and-noam-chomsky-2706</link>
		<comments>http://www.thecommentfactory.com/radiohead-frontman-thom-yorke-unpublished-transcript-on-david-cameron-gordon-brown-nick-cohen-and-noam-chomsky-2706#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:39:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Kennard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[thom yorke]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[TY: Rachel and I went to Cuba and we sat in the famous Hemingway Bar – and it was extraordinary, because when we went there we had this friend who lives in Cuba, and he said, “Look I can’t go in with you,” and we said, “Yeah you can, we’ll sort it out”, and it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The AKP: Turkey&#8217;s Islamist Thatcherites</title>
		<link>http://www.thecommentfactory.com/the-akp-turkeys-islamist-thatcherites-2719</link>
		<comments>http://www.thecommentfactory.com/the-akp-turkeys-islamist-thatcherites-2719#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:20:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Kennard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[akp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trade unionism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[turkey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[workers rights]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The current Tekel and union movement is also up against a notoriously barbaric police force, which has unleashed violence and mayhem at regular intervals on peaceful demonstrations in Istanbul and around the country, most infamously at the annual May Day celebrations]]></description>
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		<title>Iraq Inquiry: Unpublished interview with Jack Straw, then-UK Foreign Secretary, from 2006</title>
		<link>http://www.thecommentfactory.com/uk-chilcot-inquiry-unpublished-interview-with-jack-straw-then-uk-foreign-secretary-from-2006-2688</link>
		<comments>http://www.thecommentfactory.com/uk-chilcot-inquiry-unpublished-interview-with-jack-straw-then-uk-foreign-secretary-from-2006-2688#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 19:33:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Kennard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hugo chavez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iraq war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jack straw]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[MK: I mean because a normal Iraqi may be thinking: “Oh Rumsfeld, maybe twenty years ago, was supporting Saddam.”

JS: Well it’s more complicated than that.

MK: Well, he was selling him weapons – I mean alongside all the other powers.

JS: I think their story… we didn’t by the way – as far as I know. But the story on that is actually more complicated. But, you know, they will accuse the Americans of all sorts of things and there is certainly, as it were, in the Arab street a feeling of complaints about hypocrisy and double standards. At the same time the Arab street wants many of the things that the West has including education and scientific research and so on… Listen I’m going to have to go, is that alright? ]]></description>
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		<title>Unpublished Howard Zinn interview from 2004: On Iraq, the US empire, and the roots of change</title>
		<link>http://www.thecommentfactory.com/unpublished-howard-zinn-interview-from-2004-on-iraq-the-us-empire-and-the-roots-of-change-2673</link>
		<comments>http://www.thecommentfactory.com/unpublished-howard-zinn-interview-from-2004-on-iraq-the-us-empire-and-the-roots-of-change-2673#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:05:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Kennard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editors Pick]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Resistance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA['war on terror']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[howard zinn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iraq]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ That’s a possibility. It’s only a possibility but I think whether that grassroots movement inside the Democratic Party develops or not what is most important is the development of a mass movement outside of the party system. That is, yes, the streets. The kind of movement that in the years of the civil rights movement against racial segregation or in the years of the movement against the Vietnam. A movement that is outside of the orthodox political institutions but which creates an atmosphere in the country and enlists enough people in its cause and frightens the establishment sufficiently so that something is changed]]></description>
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		<title>Howard Zinn: his memory, our histories</title>
		<link>http://www.thecommentfactory.com/howard-zinn-his-memory-our-histories-2656</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 13:18:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Kennard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Resistance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[howard zinn]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Zinn was also saying explicitly something I had been thinking but never had the confidence to say: "My work, like everyone else's, is subjective". He wasn't afraid to admit it. At university we were taught to revere the great historians who provided the "truthful" account of the past. But, said Zinn, everything was and is subjective, and not benignly subjective either. History had since its inception been skewed in the service of power, status and money. This was explicit in the days of the court historians, paid by the Crown to write their hagiographies, but it continues to this days with elite universities such as Harvard giving their most prestigious history chairs to people such as Niall Ferguson, who has put his mind in the service of entrenched power since the start of his career, while spurning the excavators of real truth such as Zinn]]></description>
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		<title>Interview: Peter Kennard, unofficial war artist, on the aesthetics of activism</title>
		<link>http://www.thecommentfactory.com/interview-peter-kennard-unofficial-war-artist-on-the-aesthetics-of-activism-2628</link>
		<comments>http://www.thecommentfactory.com/interview-peter-kennard-unofficial-war-artist-on-the-aesthetics-of-activism-2628#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:02:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Kennard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[peter kennard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[political symbolism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I think in the past few rather than people being very into irony and very cynical, people are trying to work out how they relate as individual to the world because the world is impinging on our lives so much – we can’t deny it anymore that there is a crisis going on in the world, so it is impinging on the world they do. It doesn’t mean they do very direct images about it, but there is certainly that anxiety about how to live and what to do in the world is coming through in the work]]></description>
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		<title>Art and the global justice movement: Review of &#8216;Signs of Revolt&#8217; on London&#8217;s Brick Lane</title>
		<link>http://www.thecommentfactory.com/art-and-the-global-justice-movement-review-of-signs-of-revolt-on-londons-brick-lane-2563</link>
		<comments>http://www.thecommentfactory.com/art-and-the-global-justice-movement-review-of-signs-of-revolt-on-londons-brick-lane-2563#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 14:11:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Kennard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Editors Pick]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social movements]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The effete art-industry intellectuals and academics who have proposed for so long that political art is merely crude agitprop or literary doggerel are being made to look stupid by a new generation of artists who don't think see their role as making pretty pictures and designing clever concepts for boardrooms. They are using creativity as an integral part of a justice movement that is inchoate but growing in substance and definition. They have internalized Brecht's timeless dictum that "Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer to shape it"]]></description>
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		<title>Interview on Israel, Gaza, the UN and international justice</title>
		<link>http://www.thecommentfactory.com/interview-on-israel-gaza-the-un-and-international-justice-2555</link>
		<comments>http://www.thecommentfactory.com/interview-on-israel-gaza-the-un-and-international-justice-2555#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:55:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Kennard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gaza]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[israel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I think there should definitely be an investigation into the war crimes committed by Israel in Gaza. That's without question, and it would be unthinkable not to have an investigation if this was any other state than Israel. Look at what happened in the aftermath of NATO's attack on Serbia and the atrocities in Kosovo. The perpetrators of the attacks were hunted down and put on trial, and the search still continues for those responsible]]></description>
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		<title>Anti-capitalists in Trafalgar Square, London, have a word</title>
		<link>http://www.thecommentfactory.com/anti-capitalists-in-trafalgar-square-london-have-a-word-2524</link>
		<comments>http://www.thecommentfactory.com/anti-capitalists-in-trafalgar-square-london-have-a-word-2524#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:17:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Kennard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Resistance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anti-capitalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[London]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA["Although I am an anti-capitalist I think that Climate Camp should focus only on pressuring people, and governments to cut emmissions. Trying to change the global economy and trying to get commissions cut is too big a task. Cutting emmissions is the most important thing, and that can probably on be done through capitalism, so we are just going to have to deal with the devil."]]></description>
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		<title>Evo and Capitalism</title>
		<link>http://www.thecommentfactory.com/evo-and-capitalism-2507</link>
		<comments>http://www.thecommentfactory.com/evo-and-capitalism-2507#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Kennard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[capitalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[evo morales]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA["I see myself now in a position of homage to him. For me Che is my leader, " he says. "What he did cannot be forgotten."]]></description>
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		<title>Neo-Nazis infiltrate the US military: The FULL evidence</title>
		<link>http://www.thecommentfactory.com/neo-nazis-infiltrate-the-us-military-the-full-evidence-2453</link>
		<comments>http://www.thecommentfactory.com/neo-nazis-infiltrate-the-us-military-the-full-evidence-2453#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:19:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Kennard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editors Pick]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[irregular army]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[neo-nazis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“I do believe you can join the service with tattoos,” he says. “I’m sure you can join with a swastika. There’s a big gang problem in the armed forces right now: if you went to a recruitment station with a swastika I don’t think they would stop you, it would be noted in your record.”]]></description>
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