Flaminia Giambalvo
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Flaminia Giambalvo is currently studying an MA in International Studies at Goldsmiths University, while collaborating with different publications. Here she writes about international politics, with a particular focus on social movements.

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From the Mexican Highlands to St Paul's

Posted 20 February 2012 | 20/02/12 09:28 GMT

What has united the myriad of occupy movements, so far, has been a critique of rampant privatisation and inequality correlated to a demand for a 'real' democracy. The latter implies that the current model is a fake and expresses the necessity of building something different.

Over the past decades,...

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Occupy London: Will Mere Indignation do?

Posted 18 October 2011 | 18/10/11 11:29 BST

On Monday bankers and financiers working in London's financial district must have had a rude awakening. To 'greet' them on their way to work is a square filled with protestors ready to spell out for them what they think of the current system with a powerful banner "capitalism is crises".

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Sunday was About More Than the NHS

Posted 10 October 2011 | 10/10/11 13:36 BST

More than 2,000 people staged a sit-down protest on Westminster Bridge from 1pm on Sunday to highlight the health and social care bill, which is due to go before the Lords this week.

As Big Ben struck 1pm protesters unfurled banners and sat down, blocking the bridge in both directions...

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Criminalising a Generation

Posted 3 October 2011 | 03/10/11 13:24 BST

The anti cuts protests and London riots, which have shaken the country to its core during the past months are increasingly exposing the shortcomings and social costs of the coalition government's austerity plans. In order to maintain an image of apparent control over the nation, Prime Minister David Cameron has...

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