Wednesday, April 30, 2008

How to make the right to vote count

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May Day is international workers’ day, when the labour movement celebrates its social and economic achievements. Winning the right to vote i...

Profiting from the food crisis

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The world’s major governments are sitting on their hands while the world’s poor face starvation from soaring food prices. This is the stark ...
Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Nadine Gordimer and Gaza's dismay

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This year Israel is marking the 60th anniversary of its declaration of independence in May 1948, which for the Palestinians immediately beca...
Sunday, April 27, 2008

Coastal peoples hit by climate change

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There is serious doubt whether the majority of people who rely on fishing and other coastal activities for their livelihood can survive the ...
Friday, April 25, 2008

Debt crisis behind Grangemouth strike

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Members of the Unite trade union at Grangemouth are set for the first strike at an oil refinery for 73 years over pension rights. The disput...
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Thursday, April 24, 2008

Form alliance to defeat government

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Today’s strike by teachers, college lecturers and civil servants is an important challenge to the low pay and privatisation agenda that this...
Wednesday, April 23, 2008

New Labour's tame copper

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Sir Ian Blair, commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, is New Labour’s favourite copper. Ministers can always rely on him to back the gover...
Tuesday, April 22, 2008

America's judicial murder machine

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As the campaign between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton for the Democratic Party presidential ticket comes to a head, it would be well to n...
Monday, April 21, 2008

Another 'fix' for debt junkies

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The true nature of New Labour doesn’t come clearer than this. If you are a low earner, New Labour says you should pay more tax. But if you a...
Friday, April 18, 2008

The real costs of the price of oil

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The price of a barrel of oil reached and passed $115 yesterday. It has doubled in a year. As the price of oil goes up so must everything els...
Thursday, April 17, 2008

Climate change hits water cycle

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Global warming has already brought about significant changes to what is known as the hydrological cycle, warns an authoritative new report o...
Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Italy at the crossroads

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The election of billionaire Silvio Berlusconi as prime minister of Italy for the third time brings together an extreme right-wing coalition ...
Tuesday, April 15, 2008

The German student revolt

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Forty years ago today, students demonstrated in Berlin following the attempted assassination of their revolutionary leader, Rudi Dutschke. A...
Monday, April 14, 2008

Meltdown hits New Labour

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The turmoil in global financial markets is now reflecting itself as paralysis and confusion in the minds and actions of politicians, amid op...
Friday, April 11, 2008

Food prices revolt grows

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Governments across the globe are being shaken by mass protests, as people take to the streets demanding lower food prices. According to th...
Thursday, April 10, 2008

IMF predicts the unpredictable

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Headline reports of the stark admissions, predictions and warnings in the two latest reports from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) lite...
Wednesday, April 09, 2008

Housing market misery

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The morbid concern over the sharp fall in house prices in March not only expresses middle-class obsession with property values. It is also ...
Tuesday, April 08, 2008

Help - I could lose my seat!

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If some New Labour MPs are suddenly concerned about how Gordon Brown’s tax changes benefit the well off at the expense of low earners, it is...
Monday, April 07, 2008

Put this Olympic torch out!

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Former Blue Peter presenter Konnie Huq no doubt summed up many people’s feelings after a protester tried to grab the Olympic flame from her ...
Friday, April 04, 2008

Martin Luther King's unfinished business

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Martin Luther King, who was assassinated 40 years ago today in Memphis, where he was supporting a strike of low-paid municipal workers, is m...