Contents

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3 Editorial  Hilary Wainwright 5 Letters & Jeremy Hardy Thinks 6 Plattitudes  Steve Platt 8 Under the radar  Home front 9 Temperature gauge  Corporate trumps 10 Debate  When in Frome... 11 Natural born rebel  Bus plug 30 People’s agenda  The right energy bill

Cover story

Politics by the people

12 Sí se puede

Andrew Dolan interviews Eduardo Maura of Podemos, the people‑powered party that is transforming Spanish politics

16 Party time

Marina Prentoulis reports on how Greece’s highly successful new left party Syriza is aiming to take power with a new kind of organisation

18 Another Scotland is

– still – possible Jonathon Shafi of the Radical Independence Campaign says it’s not finished yet

Cover illustration: hey monkey riot – www.eddbaldry.co.uk

Kurds

20 In pictures: Kurdish pride

Haringey, north London, has become a safe haven for Kurds in exile from their homeland. Photos by Francis Wilmer

23 Delist the PKK

The ‘terror’ ban on support for the Kurdish struggle must be lifted, writes Melanie Sirinathsingh

24 Revolutionary resistance

The fight against ISIS in Kobane has been based on the Kurdish defenders’ deep-seated belief in their model of participatory democracy, writes Yvo Fitzherbert

Essay

26 Defending rights against the right

The rights of those who have least are under concerted attack, says Nina Power. We must organise to protect them

31 Strength in low numbers

Matilda Wnek offers a personal perspective on keeping the protest flame burning

Climate

32 COP comes of age

After the People’s Climate March, Claire Walker looks at how the climate movement should build towards COP21 in Paris 34 To camp or not to camp?

Maya Stacey on Reclaim the Power, the climate movement and the ongoing struggle for diversity

Books & Film

35 Inequality: the slow revolution

In his new book, Inequality and the 1%, Danny Dorling argues that we need a nonviolent war of attrition against the rich

38 The Blair Supremacy

Alan Simpson compares a new book on the New Labour’s time in office to his experiences as backbench socialist MP

44 Coalition cartoons

Highlights from Martin Rowson’s new book, a collection of his work in the Cameron-Clegg era

50 Pride in the fight

Siobhan McGuirk celebrates the solidarity – and humour – of a film about when lesbians and gays backed the miners

47 Book reviews

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