But the shift has more to do with how parties behave than any changes in the class system.
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As Nairobi grows ever taller, and as newer suburbs take over from the central business district as the city’s commercial centres, the Hilton stands as a landmark to a different era.
Some Spanish-speaking activists are already using a different gender-inclusive term, arguing it’s a better replacement for Latinx.
The narrative of the Fourth Industrial Revolution is more aspiration than reality.
Much of the commentary on the July riots, which cost over 300 lives and billions of rands in damage to the economy, has neglected the long history of violent protests in the country.
Littering in protest is indicative of a discordant society, and a culture of littering can tell us a lot about a society’s ethos.
The risks of big data are not getting enough attention.
Countries - including many in Africa - have moved towards democracy incrementally. They have zig-zagged and sometimes regressed. Events in Zimbabwe should be seen in this light.
Trump’s demagoguery took political discourse in America to a place where it lost contact with reality.
The student protests that rocked South Africa’s universities in 2015 are part of a class struggle as poor and marginalised people fight for their place in an unequal system.
W1A has got funnier but the bad news is that the better W1A gets, the worse the BBC looks.
The Conversation is running a series, Class in Australia, to identify, illuminate and debate its many manifestations. Here, John Smyth identifies the failure of government policies to tackle the nation’s…
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Visiting Professor of Education and Social Justice, University of Huddersfield; and Emeritus Professor, Federation University Australia
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Raimond Gaita is a Friend of The Conversation.
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University of York
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