Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Lost for words in the digital age

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In what may be a shock for those who believe that the digital age has made class struggle so last century, household names from TV and Holly...
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007

The great unravelling

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“Housing market faces big slowdown” reports the Financial Times , while today’s Daily Telegraph main headline is “Fastest rise in food price...
Monday, November 12, 2007

Big business backing Democrats

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Just as in the 1990s, big business in the United States is lining up behind the Democratic Party ahead of next year’s presidential elections...
Friday, November 09, 2007

Police above the law

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The refusal of the Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair to quit over the killing – or, more precisely, execution - of Jean Charle...
Thursday, November 08, 2007

Everyone's a 'suspect'

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Just in case you thought New Labour’s planned new anti-terror laws were bad enough, pay attention to what the European Union is cooking up. ...
Wednesday, November 07, 2007

Ten days that shook the world

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Ninety years ago today, a remarkable series of events began in Russia that would change the course of the 20th century. The first anti-capit...
Tuesday, November 06, 2007

New Labour plays race card

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Targeting immigrant workers is becoming the number one priority for governments from Italy, to Switzerland and Britain. In Italy, Romanian a...
Monday, November 05, 2007

Citigroup's 'assets' bonfire

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When the world’s largest bank has to ask its chief executive and chairman to go because up to $11 billion of its assets are actually not wor...
Friday, November 02, 2007

Energy firms cash in on fuel poverty

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As winter looms, many millions of people in Britain are preparing for a winter of shivering cold in badly insulated homes that they can’t af...
Thursday, November 01, 2007

Protecting the powerful

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Campaigners are surprised and even shocked that the Competition Commission has ignored mounting evidence about how the big four supermarkets...
Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Gold soars: Dollar crashes

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The price of gold and other precious metals is fast approaching record levels. The continued weakening of the dollar against other currencie...
Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Saudi Arabia: an inconvenient truth

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So, according to a New Labour foreign office minister, Britain and Saudi Arabia’s feudal absolute monarchy should work more closely together...
Monday, October 29, 2007

Renewables target ditched

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On the day scientists announced that the Earth’s ability to soak up carbon emissions has dramatically declined, while at the same time we ar...
Friday, October 26, 2007

Simply not sustainable

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Twenty years ago, a commission convened by the United Nations put forward the concept of “sustainable development” as a way that capitalism,...
Thursday, October 25, 2007

Let them eat cake

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In the popular imagination, Queen Marie Antoinette is believed to have sparked the French Revolution when she said of the starving poor, “Le...
Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Global push for rice ‘suicide seed’

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The seed industry will do whatever it takes to stop farmers saving seeds. The only way it can make big money from seeds is to force farmers ...
Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Free Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine

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October is Black History month and it should be a time to celebrate the achievements of black heroes during the 200th anniversary of the Abo...
Monday, October 22, 2007

IMF paralysed as crisis grows

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The mass of red covering the trading screens of stock markets from Asia to Europe this morning confirms that attempts to wish away the credi...
Friday, October 19, 2007

Empty gestures in the face of climate change

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Latest warnings from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change show the extent of damage already done to our planet through the excesses...
Thursday, October 18, 2007

Underwater imperialism

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The results of melting ice caps may terrify the rest of us but for the oil corporations and their client governments there is a silver linin...