Thursday, April 30, 2009

Profit comes before public health

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The World Health Organisation has increased its assessment of the risk of a swine flu pandemic to the second highest level, yet not one poli...
Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Ownership but no control

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Get your head round this one. Members of the United Auto Workers of America (UAW) are voting today on a deal which would give them majority...
Tuesday, April 28, 2009

The audacity of hype

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As Barack Obama comes up to his 100th day in office, the limitations of his power to determine the course of events are cruelly exposed, now...
Monday, April 27, 2009

Unmasking the state

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“We don’t want to stop you doing what you are doing. We’re just asking you to consider a proposal… almost a business proposal…At least you’r...
Friday, April 24, 2009

Carbon capture rip-off

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The government’s commitment to provide £90 million of public money for experiments in unproven, risky carbon capture technology is just the ...
Thursday, April 23, 2009

Darling's big fraud fools no one

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Alistair Darling’s crisis budget is a gigantic attempted fraud that will fool no-one. New Labour’s Chancellor bears comparison with Bernard ...
Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Parliament, power and expenses

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On the day when the average person will discover how much bailing out the banks is going to cost them personally, it’s good to know that the...
Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Racism and the state of Israel

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One doesn’t have to agree with the wilder, deeply reactionary views of the Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad about Israel and the Jews t...
Monday, April 20, 2009

Masters and servants: the state at work

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The notion that the police are, or should be, “public servants” is an admirable ideal. Unfortunately, it bears little relation to reality, a...
Friday, April 17, 2009

Tamil hunger strikers expose New Labour

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As hunger striker Paramesweran Subramaniyam languishes in Parliament Square, New Labour Foreign Secretary David Miliband has seen fit to “de...
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Thursday, April 16, 2009

Should energy go local?

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There are many problems associated with retooling how America obtains its energy, more specifically, how it is generated and transmitted to ...
Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Green shoots in Finaghy

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Governments and central banks throughout the world have been struggling with a myriad of unco-ordinated measures to deal with the global fin...
Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Police raid is real conspiracy

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The arrest of 114 environmental activists in Nottingham in the early hours of yesterday morning in a massive police raid on a school in the ...
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Thursday, April 09, 2009

'Creative destruction' order of the day

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Despite the G20’s attempts at confidence-boosting rhetoric, the interdependent components of the global economy remain locked in a deadly em...
Wednesday, April 08, 2009

A law unto themselves

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Once again the police have blood on their hands and a cover-up is already well under way. That’s the only conclusion you can draw from the v...
Tuesday, April 07, 2009

Spin gives way to the real world

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Last week a photo-opportunity thinly disguised as the G20 emergency economic summit; this week, the real world has reasserted itself. London...
Monday, April 06, 2009

The state's dirty work

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Important truths about the British state are reaching the light of day, thanks to campaigners and ordinary citizens. The Metropolitan Police...
Friday, April 03, 2009

Secret G20 communiqué says it all

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The draft communiqué below from the G20, revealed here exclusively by A World to Win, bears no resemblance to the statement eventually publi...
Thursday, April 02, 2009

G20 won't bail out the eco-system

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Whatever the communiqué issued by G20 leaders says today, it will not address the climate crisis. Rather it will present the shared thinking...
Wednesday, April 01, 2009

Getting it right about Marx

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Mounting street-level opposition to the capitalist G20 governments London gathering prompted the Evening Standard to observe this week tha...