MARK TURNER wallows in the virtuosity of Swansea Jazz Festival openers, Simon Spillett and Pete Long
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THE NATURE and significance of social movements have been the subject of considerable debate in recent years, with academics comparing and contrasting “newer” and typically identity-based social movements with “older” movements rooted in the class-based politics of the left.
Are traditional class politics being superseded as some, such as French sociologist Andre Gortz, have been suggesting? Farewell to the working class and hello to “middle-class ideological radicalism,” he has argued.
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