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The Plessey Factory Occupation, Bathgate, 1982
Society, Politics & Law

The Plessey Factory Occupation, Bathgate, 1982

...sang down the line that ‘anything you can do, I can do better’. The workers at Plessey had also decided that they would occupy to strengthen their case that closure was unjust. The announcement was sudden, and action began swiftly. Some of those not on shift were stunned to discover when they arrived for work that the plant was under worker control. Elizabeth Fairley,...
Rio 2016: South East Asia on the podium
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rio 2016: South East Asia on the podium

...le Clos of South Africa in the 100m butterfly event at Rio 2016. Aside from Schooling, three other athletes from Southeast Asia have won a gold medal in Rio as of this writing. They were Thai weightlifters Sukanya Srisurat and Sopita Tanasan, and Vietnamese shooter Hoang Xuan Vinh. Schooling’s victory was special because it gave Singapore its first ever Olympic gold...
How do you become French President?
Society, Politics & Law

How do you become French President?

...Le Pen National Front FN 6,421,426 17.90% Jean-Luc Mélenchon Left Front FG 3,984,822 11.10% François Bayrou Democratic Movement MoDem 3,275,122 9.13% Eva Joly Europe Ecology – The Greens EELV 828,345 2.31% Nicolas Dupont-Aignan Republic Arise DLR 643,907 1.79% Philippe Poutou New Anticapitalist Party NPA 411,160 1.15% Nathalie Arthaud Workers' Struggle LO 202,548...
Raymond Williams and Leonardo Sciascia: Intellectuals At the Margins
Society, Politics & Law

Raymond Williams and Leonardo Sciascia: Intellectuals At the Margins

...Le Parrocchie di Regalpetra (published in the English edition as Salt in the Wound) was based on his experience as a schoolteacher in his hometown. His descriptions of poverty, fascism, and corruption in the Church and town hall were based on real events and became dominant themes in his later writing. Education informed their respective interrogations of wider cultures....
Speak in colours!
Languages

Speak in colours!

...a long face Faire travailler sa matière grise- (lit. to put his/her grey matter to work), to put his/her thinking cap on Black [Image of black sky with with French idioms concerning the colour black written across the image] Être noir de monde- (lit. to be black with people), full of people Broyer du noir- (lit. to crush some black), have the blues/be down in the dumps...
CIAM (Congres Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne)
History & The Arts

CIAM (Congres Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne)

...Le Corbusier, one of the movement's founders, often liked to compare the standardised efficiency of the motor industry with the inefficiency of the building trade.) CIAM's early attitudes towards town-planning were stark: "Urbanisation cannot be conditioned by the claims of a pre-existent aestheticism; its essence is of a functional order… the chaotic division of land,...
Beginners’ German: Places and people
Languages

Beginners’ German: Places and people

...du aus Deutschland? MARCOS Nein, aus Blumenau. Das ist in Brasilien. STUDENTIN Oh. Dialog 2 MANN Ihr Deutsch ist perfekt, Frau Lahn. Woher in Australien kommen Sie? FRAU LAHN Ich komme aus Hahndorf im Barossa-Tal. Meine Familie kommt aus Deutschland. Dialog 3 INTERVIEWERIN Wie ist Ihr Name, bitte? FRAU LENGENFELDER Mein Name ist Lengenfelder. INTERVIEWERIN Woher kommen...
Advanced German: Fragen der Identität
Languages

Advanced German: Fragen der Identität

...du am Telefon bist, weißt du nicht ganz genau, woher ich komme. Also du kannst nicht sagen, ich bin ein Ausländer, aber du weißt auch nicht ganz genau, wo ich hinpasse. Manchmal fühle ich mich auch so, ähm, persönlich. Ich finde die Sprache ist sehr wichtig für die Identität, weil es ist etwas, was, was [die] Person bindet, vielleicht mit seiner entweder...