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‘The Irish could do with being 30% more Dutch, the Dutch 20% more Irish’

Play Hannah Pezzack , May 18th, 2021 07:41 A re-issue from the 80s synth band Electric Party, Play is a fascinating slice of Amsterdam’s history, finds Hannah Pezzack  There’s a certain mythos that lingers in the history of the Dutch squatter’s movement. In the early 1960s, in response to Amsterdam’s housing crisis, local activists began taking over empty buildings which were kept in disarray by landlords in order to artificially increase rent prices. Incentivised by the collective act...