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Environment: the maggot in Steve Jobs’ apple

('ZoeBBee',) — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 12:25:40 -0000

While tributes to its CEO Steve Jobs flood the web, don't forget Apple’s lack of green credentials

Twitter feed: reactions to Steve Jobs death

('English language version of cafebabel.com',) — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:00:00 -0000

The CEO of Apple was without a doubt the biggest genius of the last decade. He passed away after suffering from pancreatic cancer at the age of 56 over the night of 6 October. Social networks such as facebook and twitter have overflooded with 2.0 tributes

Five years of enlarged Europe – no longer a land of gold

('Gemma Turner',) — Mon, 11 May 2009 11:23:23 -0000

Five years on from the great European expansion into the east, the eastern and western members are still oceans apart. The distance is not only geographical and the differences not only ideological

June 2009 European elections: everyone to the left!

('Sarah Gray',) — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:00:00 -0000

Three new ‘left of the left wing’ parties were created in 2008 in France alone. Across the whole continent, anticapitalist voices are gathering together, with their sights set on the 2009 European elections, for better and for worse

Exploiting unpaid interns: rites of passage?

('c\xc3\xa9dric AUDINOT',) — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:00:00 -0000

Associations like Generation Precarity or Fairwork expose an exploited flexible labour force with intermittent incomes and no job security

1000 and more: Europe's young designers

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0000

Magazines in auction rooms, high consumption in the art market - trend review

1968: a tour of Europe's revolts

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:00:00 -0000

Spain, Czech Republic, France, Italy, Poland and Germany - spinning through Europe's uprisings during that infamous year of rebellion

Situationism: ideas in conflict

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0000

Rue de Seine, Paris 1952. ‘Never work’ is chalked on a wall. Two words about the philosophy of the 'Situationists' who transformed May 1968 and who still inspire activists today

Lithuania: a stranger in the south of the north

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0000

Since achieving independence in 1990, it has strived to walk steadily on its own. On the eve of reaching adulthood as a self-governing country, Vilnius is like a little girl who has been picked on too many times by her bigger neighbours