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		<title>Disgrace: Pakistan cricket and its discontents</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:36:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Marqusee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Outlook (India), 6 September
On top of floods, war, bombs, a corrupt and incompetent government with a much feared military in the wings, the long-suffering people of Pakistan have now been betrayed, once again, by their cricketers. Most will not be shocked or will profess not to be shocked: over the last 15 years there has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Small country, big struggle</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 13:53:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Marqusee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mike Marqusee has just returned from a visit with trade unionists and democracy activists in Swaziland. 
Swaziland is a small country with a big problem. The 1.3 million inhabitants of the land-locked southern African kingdom live under the thumb of one of the world&#8217;s last absolute monarchies, a venal and repressive regime whose plunder of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>International solidarity under attack</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 00:17:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Marqusee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mike Marqusee&#8217;s essay in Midnight on the Mavi Marmara has been published on The Electronic Intifada.

From small beginnings and with few resources, the international movement in solidarity with the Palestinians has grown into a force that Israel perceives as a major threat. The assault on the Gaza aid flotilla was a lethal escalation in what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Insisting on an alternative: meeting the challenge of the cuts</title>
		<link>http://www.mikemarqusee.com/?p=1059</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2010 11:02:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Marqusee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CONTENDING FOR THE LIVING
Red Pepper, August-September 2010
In Act IV Scene i of King Lear, the blinded, humbled, suicidal Earl of Gloucester hands his purse to the naked madman, &#8216;Poor Tom&#8217; (actually Gloucester&#8217;s ill-used son, Edgar) and as he does so observes, “So distribution should undo excess, / And each man have enough.”
Shakespeare&#8217;s 400 year old [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: History lesson on the left&#8217;s Palestine blind spot</title>
		<link>http://www.mikemarqusee.com/?p=1050</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:06:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Marqusee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Asa Winstanley reviews If I Am Not for Myself by Mike Marqusee in The Electronic Intifada, 30 July 2010.
&#8220;Mike Marqusee&#8217;s book If I am Not For Myself, newly available in paperback, is a fascinating, meandering sort of family memoir. &#8230;a fascinating critical insight into Zionism, and a crucial warning from history on Palestine for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The art of resistance</title>
		<link>http://www.mikemarqusee.com/?p=1043</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Marqusee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Red Pepper, August-September 2010
Mike Marqusee reviews Against the Wall: The Art of Resistance in Palestine by William Parry (published by Pluto Press)
When the state of Israel began constructing its “separation barrier” through the West Bank, it never anticipated that the wall would become a living gallery of resistance, crowded with images and words of defiance. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Changing ends</title>
		<link>http://www.mikemarqusee.com/?p=1038</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:48:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Marqusee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[History Today, August 2010
As the England cricket team take on Pakistan in this summer’s Test Match series, Mike Marqusee revisits S.M.Toyne’s article on the origins and growth of the game, first published in History Today in June 1955. The full text of the original article (&#8221;The Early History of Cricket&#8221;) is available at History Today
In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New book: Midnight on the Mavi Marmara</title>
		<link>http://www.mikemarqusee.com/?p=1032</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:05:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Marqusee</dc:creator>
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&#8220;Just as the Palestinian cause is a global magnet for victims of discrimination and dispossession, so the cause of Israel is a magnet for the privileged, the entitled, the beneficiaries of Western and white supremacy. The rich and powerful see themselves as under siege from the poor and powerless and in Israel’s self-portrayal they recognize [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Palestinians face existential threat</title>
		<link>http://www.mikemarqusee.com/?p=1025</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 08:04:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Marqusee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[LEVEL PLAYING FIELD
The Hindu, 18 July
In an effort to mitigate the global outrage that followed its attack on the Gaza aid flotilla, Israel has (ever so slightly) eased its blockade on Gaza. However minimal, this step has only been taken because of the pressure applied to Israel by the international grass-roots protest movement. The primary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Come on you Ghana, Brazil, Spain, Mexico, Korea, Italy…</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 14:02:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Marqusee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The World Cup and the pleasures of neutrality
The Guardian, 8 June 2010 
With the football World Cup pressing hard on us and England mania on the rise, spare a thought for those of us who are not England supporters. Though we go largely unnoticed in the England-centred media coverage, we&#8217;re here and we&#8217;re a significant [...]]]></description>
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