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We All Want to Change the World
Lawrence Grossberg

This online book is a continuation of Lawrence Grossberg's analysis of changing popular and political cultures of the United States during the last fifty years. He poses the 'paradox of the left': despite the many people involved in a great variety of counterforces, the 'left' seems unable to create a broad, visible and effective movement for change. 

Somewhere between a popular polemic and an academic critique, in this book Grossberg argues for more humble and convivial forms of unities in difference, whether as intellectual conversations or political movements.  

Lawrence Grossberg is the Morris Davis Distinguished Professor of Communication Studies and Cultural Studies at the University of North Carolina.

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Event TONIGHT
Demo: Solidarity with Greece
Tuesday 23 June 2015, 6.30pm
Trafalgar Square (National Gallery), London WC2N 5DN.
Facebook event

Take part in the European week of action for Greece! Join us on Trafalgar Square TONIGHT and please also circulate the Facebook Event as widely as possible.

Jubilee Debt Campaign is finalising a petition that will be circulated on the day and online. Please bring your own placards with support for Greece and debt-struggle slogans such as ‘Break the chains of Greece's debt!’

Other events
Leeds Taking Soundings
Labour’s election failure: What should be done?
Thursday 16 July 2015, 6pm
Broadcasting Place (opposite The Fenton), Leeds LS2 9EN

Michael Rustin will develop the arguments set out in ‘Reflections on the 2015 General Election’ and on the lessons that need to be drawn from this failure. This will be in the light of the analysis set out in the Kilburn Manifesto.  

Free event. For more details, contact Matthew Caygill: m.caygill@leedsbeckett.ac.uk

See also the Leeds Taking Soundings blog and facebook page. 

June 2015

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