Tuesday, June 30, 2009

How to fight job losses

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The reinstatement of the sacked 647 Lindsey oil refinery (LOR) workers, with offers of work for the 51 whose redundancies sparked the walk-o...
Monday, June 29, 2009

How the vultures gathered around Jacko

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As music fans worldwide mourn the exceptionally talented singer, songwriter, dancer and all-round performer, the passing of Michael Jackson ...
Friday, June 26, 2009

Cyber war on the people

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The use of the Internet, mobile phones and social networking sites to mobilise against repressive regimes and send videos, photos and inform...
Thursday, June 25, 2009

Wonderful, Wonderful “Hopenhagen”

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Thank goodness, everything’s going to be OK. The world’s major advertising agencies are galloping to the rescue on climate change. “Hopenhag...
Wednesday, June 24, 2009

If it can't be fixed, scrap it!

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At the end of last week, Lord Mandelson, the authentic, unelected voice of global capital within the New Labour government, stated what he s...
Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Business as usual for bankers

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Despite the credit crunch and the global financial meltdown, it’s business as usual for bankers. While the jobs massacre continues, thousand...
Monday, June 22, 2009

Getting it right about Iran

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A little humility is called for in making an assessment of what is at stake in Iran, not only for the sake of the courageous students and ot...
Friday, June 19, 2009

Bosses attack as union leaders run up white flag

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The sacking by the Total corporation of 900 construction workers at the Lindsey oil refinery in Lincolnshire last night, who were on strike ...
Thursday, June 18, 2009

Indigenous Peruvians fight the corporations

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A determined campaign by indigenous people has forced the Peruvian government to temporarily suspend new laws that would permit the global ...
Wednesday, June 17, 2009

As dole queues grow, so does case for regime change

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As the exam period ends in the UK, young people surging through the gates of schools and colleges will be looking for jobs. But with jobs di...
Tuesday, June 16, 2009

The uprising in Iran

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The titanic struggle on the streets of Iran unleashed by the disputed results of the presidential election contain a revolutionary essence t...
Monday, June 15, 2009

Netanyahu endorses a ghetto

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Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday became the sixth Israeli prime minister to utter the words “Palestinian state” – and yet the Palestinians are n...
Friday, June 12, 2009

Crisis over? Who are they kidding!

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Finance ministers in Italy for this weekend’s annual meeting of the G8 capitalist countries aren’t short of sources to help them interpret e...
Thursday, June 11, 2009

Double dealing on climate change

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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon this week summonsed world leaders to attend an unprecedented second pre-meeting in New York in September to...
Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Shell's 'blood money' pay-out

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Relatives of writer and campaigner Ken Saro-Wiwa have welcomed the outcome of the 14-year legal battle against Shell which has been pillagin...
Tuesday, June 09, 2009

How New Labour's 'vision' helped BNP

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So the revolt against Gordon Brown fizzled out last night and it’s easy to see why. Ultimately, his opponents were only interested in saving...
Monday, June 08, 2009

The parliamentary game is up

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New Labour’s continued disintegration – both as a government and a party – is now accompanied by an historic fracturing of a political syst...
Friday, June 05, 2009

New improved 'fantasy finance' fuels the crisis

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The maelstrom of scandal and political in-fighting that is shaking the New Labour government to its foundations – who knows what other minis...
Thursday, June 04, 2009

Oil giants set Copenhagen agenda

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It is now crystal clear that the Copenhagen earth summit planned for later this year cannot and will not deliver action to halt climate chan...
Wednesday, June 03, 2009

A government in freefall

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To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, to lose one minister, Mr Brown, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose four in two days looks like carelessness...