Ron's rages are sincere and — according to his wife — healthily cathartic. But can these splenetic outbursts loosen the grip of capitalism at its most monstrous?
‘Raped for the state’
JAMIE JOHNSON recommends an ultimately depressing and haunting book that is a damning criticism of our society
Demonstrators outside the Amba Hotel at Marble Arch, London, where the Undercover Policing Inquiry are holding hearings looking at the activities of the Met’s Special Demonstration Squad (SDS) between 1973 and 1982
ANGUS REID considers the power of the podcast as a vehicle for consensus building in opposition to mainstream media narratives
GLENN FOSBRAEY recommends a biography worth reading for both existing George Michael fans and those yet to be converted
FRANCIS DEVINE introduces a new collection of essays that draws on Pease McKenna’s example to indicate future paths for the movement
KEVIN DONNELLY and MARIA DUARTE review Shoot the People, The Last One For The Road, Rosebush Pruning, and Moana
JAMES WALSH recommends an exceptional documentary about the experience of Western doctors in Gaza
Deep Deception
by Alison, Belinda, Helen Steel, Lisa and Naomi
Ebury, £20
WHEN police spy Mark Kennedy’s cover was blown by political activists in the winter of 2010, the corporate media were quick to follow the official line that he was the one bad apple who had gone rogue and spoiled their otherwise spotless image.
As part of his work he had deceived at least two women into intimate relationships.
Since then it has been proved that more than 20 spycops deliberately cheated at least 50 women into relationships.
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