Greek police fire tear gas at striking truckers

Greek truck drivers clash with riot police in Athens. Photograph: John Kolesidis/Reuters The stand-off between striking truck drivers and authorities in Greece intensified today hours after the government issued an emergency order to force protesters back to work. With fuel shortages stranding thousands of tourists and disrupting supplies of food and medicines nationwide, prime minister [...]

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Publishers rage at agency ebook deal

Amazon webpage selling the Wylie Agency’s Odyssey Editions Fear and loathing among the movers and shakers of America’s publishing industry have reached new heights with both Random House and Macmillan denouncing the literary agent Andrew Wylie’s move into digital publishing. Home to 700 authors and estates ranging from Philip Roth to John Updike, Jorge Luis [...]

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‘Feminism is not finished’

Supporters of the Million Women Rise march and rally opposing violence against women make their way along Oxford Street, London, in May. Photograph: Fiona Hanson/PA If you want to gauge the energy in the current British feminist movement, you have to speak to the young campaigners. Alex Corwin has defined herself as a feminist since [...]

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