CONTENTS
Regulars
3 Editorial Another Europe is necessary 5 Letters & Jeremy Hardy Thinks 6 Globalise this! Movement news 8 Striking back Organising in Egypt 9 Under the radar Killer code 10 Right to the city Bill hits homes 11 Natural born rebel Faith in Labour
Labour
16 What’s new? Our roundtable considers whether Jeremy Corbyn has changed politics
18 Corbynomics can work
Neil Faulkner asks what a Corbyn‑inspired economic policy would look like
22 Basic instinct
Andrew Dolan puts the case for a universal basic income
32 Biting lions
On the 40th anniversary of the Grunwick strike, Sujata Aurora looks at its legacy
34 The social media spectacle
Nell Haynes reviews a global study suggesting that social norms trump radical politics on social media
39 Turkey’s war on its Kurds
Turkey has launched the biggest massacre of Kurds since the 1990s, write Tom Anderson and Eliza Egret
Climate
24 No more heroes
Alistair Tamlit, one of the ‘Heathrow 13’ climate protesters, reflects on the pitfalls of labelling activists ‘heroes’
26 Their coal, our homes
Anne Harris on the suffering caused by mining to feed the UK’s coal-fired power stations
28 Climate shutdown
Grassroots action in 2016 must succeed where the climate talks failed, writes Sam Blacksmith
29 Raising the steaks
Kierra Box says we need to put meat on our governments’ menus – and take it off our own
31 Flexitarian Bristol
Rosa van Kesteren’s new approach to cutting back on meat eating
COVER STORY
12 A decade to save the EU
Nick Buxton speaks to Yanis Varoufakis about his new movement for democracy in Europe
14 Brexit: the best weapon we have Leigh Phillips argues that the EU can’t be reformed, so we should get out
COVER DESIGN Tom Lynton
Culture
42 If I had a hammer…
Andrea Needham tells how ten women disarmed a warplane
46
Age of rage Jenny Nelson interviews the actress Kika Markham
48 Book reviews
4 red pepper apr | may 2016