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Beyond the Ballot Box

Tim Barker: Occupy and Bernie, 8 September 2016

Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt 
by Sarah Jaffe.
Nation, 352 pp., £20, August 2016, 978 1 56858 536 9
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... from within. The next step probably lies, as Occupy did, outside conventional electoral politics. Sarah Jaffe’s Necessary Trouble provides the fullest account yet of the social movements that are attempting to transform American politics. ‘We needed something beyond the ballot box,’ she remembers thinking in 2008, but ‘it wasn’t clear what that ...

I’ll do the dishes

Sophie Lewis: Mothers’ Work, 4 May 2023

Essential Labour: Mothering as Social Change 
by Angela Garbes.
Harper Wave, 222 pp., £20, May 2022, 978 0 06 293736 0
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... the Marxist scholar Rhacel Parreñas, the journalist (and author of Work Won’t Love You Back) Sarah Jaffe and the Argentinian feminist organiser Verónica Gago.Garbes even gestures towards some of the historic challenges to the private nuclear household, such as Angela Davis’s ‘The Approaching Obsolescence of Housework’. Unfortunately, she ...

Glaswegians

Andrew O’Hagan, 11 May 1995

... Secretary of State for Scotland, ‘to see the witnesses yielding to the threats of Sinn Fein.’ Sarah Kerr, of number 92 Abercrombie Street, was among those who spread the word that police had gone into St Mary’s Chapel armed with handguns and rifles. One outrage, they whispered, then shouted, was being met with another. Dozens of Catholic families went ...

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