23rd April 2012 – Peter Geoghegan

Book Review: David Harvey – Rebel Cities

By peterPosted on 23rd April 2012Posted in Books, Politics, Sunday Business PostTagged David Harvey, Marxism, Rebel Cities

Last January 25, over 50,000 people occupied in Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo, in protest at the regime of Hosni Mubarak. Less than a week later, the number of protestors in the square and surrounding streets had swelled to more than one million. On February 11, Mubarak resigned as president of Egypt. On May 15, […]

Between the Lines

By peterPosted on 23rd April 2012Posted in Northern Ireland, Politics, Society and CultureTagged Belfast, LRB, peace lines

In 1971, a parliamentary Working Group criticised the speed with which walls, gates and fences were being put up to separate Catholic and Protestant communities in Northern Ireland. The ‘peace lines’, constructed mainly by the British army, were creating an ‘atmosphere of abnormality’, the Peace Walls Working Group warned. But they did ‘not expect any […]

Day: 23rd April 2012