| Naomi Glass & Clare Joy | OrganicLea stands out as an inspiring urban food project that grows everything: food and communities. While many sustainable and food-focused programs are limited by the fact they only have volunteer staff, Organic Lea’s vision to create jobs provides a...
Occupy the US: Musings on Horizontal Dec...
| Marianne Maeckelbergh | The year 2011 has breathed new life into horizontal models of democratic decision-making. With the rise of the 15 May movement and the occupy movement horizontal decision-making became one of the key political structures for organising responses to the current global...
Simon Critchley – Interview
| Jonny Gordon-Farleigh | With the publication of his new book The Faith of the Faithless, I spoke to philosopher Simon Critchley about why a counterfactual faith is so important to modern politics, why it offers an “archive of possibilities” for those involved in political...
Football Beyond Borders
| Sam Bailey | As Gabriel Kuhn so eloquently articulated in the last issue of STIR, football is more than just a competitive sport, and if we look beyond the multi-billion-pound football ‘industry’, with its widespread corruption, celebrity players, excessive consumption and clubs run as...
The Struggle Between Copyright and the I...
| Glyn Moody | January 18, 2012 may well go down as a pivotal date in the history of the Internet – and of copyright. For on that day, the English-language Wikipedia and thousands of other websites were blacked out or modified to protest against two bills passing through the US legislative...
Making Local Food Our Future: A communit...
| Katherine Darling | `Local Food Systems Project’ in Slaithwaite, West Yorkshire. Photo: Lorne Campbell / Guzelian Attempts to find solutions to the problems we face in the current climate of economic uncertainty, energy insecurity and environmental concerns can seem overwhelming....
Does radical bookselling have a future?
| Nik Górecki | This is an article looking at the future of radical bookselling and publishing. You’re reading it on a screen, it’s published in an online-only journal, I haven’t been paid to write it, and you aren’t paying to read it. In order to access it you haven’t had to go...
Monopoly Presents the Problem. Co-opoly ...
| Brian Van Slyke | In the classic game Risk, your goal is to dominate your rival players by killing them off and conquering their territories until your Empire stretches across the globe. In Monopoly, the “world’s favorite family game brand” (according to publisher Parker...