Thursday, July 01, 2010

A dirty business

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From Bhopal to the Niger Delta, Grangemouth to the Gulf of Mexico – humans and animals are paying a high price for the profitability of the ...
Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Rail union calls for 'co-ordinated strikes' against Coalition

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The imposition of austerity budgets to reduce budget deficits – adopted across Europe by governments of all persuasions – is suddenly lookin...
Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Show the FA a red card

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As the England squad trooped wearily off their flight home this morning, it was too easy to see them as the villains of the piece, the spoil...
Monday, June 28, 2010

Toronto is a turning point

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The failure of the G20 summit in Toronto to find a common approach to tackling the global economic and financial crisis had an air of inevit...
Friday, June 25, 2010

Vuvuzela politics won't beat the banks

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On the eve of the G20 meeting in Toronto this weekend, which will see further attempts to bring about a recovery from global economic and fi...
Thursday, June 24, 2010

Public transport cuts spell hardship and fumes

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As striking maintenance workers on London’s underground draw attention to cuts and safety risks, Budget cuts herald the end of local bus ser...
Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Prepare General Strike to bring down Coalition

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Tory Chancellor Osborne’s collection of savage spending cuts and dramatic tax changes is intended to engineer a massive transfer of wealth t...
Tuesday, June 22, 2010

In defence of football

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The dramas playing out in South Africa over the England team have concentrated the minds of millions of fans around the world. The exciteme...
Monday, June 21, 2010

Tory right guns for Lib-Dems

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When David Laws was forced to resign last month, we asked if the Tory right wing was trying to destabilise the Lib-Con coalition. With the a...
Friday, June 18, 2010

Profit and food are a deadly mix

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Capitalism’s inability to feed the world, in spite of increased production and a slowdown in population growth, is underlined by a report wh...
Thursday, June 17, 2010

Europe in the eye of the storm

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With Europe firmly at the epicentre of a new stage of the global financial crisis, the heads of government meeting in Brussels today is hopi...
Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Oil spill goes global

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Estimates of the quantity of oil gushing into waters of the Gulf of Mexico continue to increase. BP’S own guess was originally as low as 1,0...
Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Derry remembers Bloody Sunday dead

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Thousands of people will march into the centre of Derry today along the route that a civil rights march planned to take on 30 January 1972. ...
Monday, June 14, 2010

They have lost control

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The trouble with conspiracy theories is the impression given that “they” – bankers, politicians, the military etc – are always in control of...
Friday, June 11, 2010

Creative accounting blocks climate action

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Rich nations could go on increasing carbon emissions by up to 8% if they exploit gaping loopholes in a new draft agreement which is going to...
Thursday, June 10, 2010

Groucho says it how it is

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Perhaps John McDonnell could draw some comfort from Groucho Marx after his exclusion (for a second time) from the contest for leader of the ...
Wednesday, June 09, 2010

Britain - a failed state

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A system that produces a government intent on forcing people to cut their own throats is a failed state and we ought to find a democratic re...
Tuesday, June 08, 2010

Beyond resistance

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As the coalition government lines up massive spending cuts that even prime minister David Cameron acknowledges will shake society, a strateg...
Monday, June 07, 2010

Italy's political crisis raises old fears

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As Italian trade unions prepare for a general strike later this month against public spending cuts, political tensions are once again rising...
Friday, June 04, 2010

The real cost of the World Cup

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With the opening match of the 2010 World Cup just a week away, hopes that the huge cost of staging the tournament would “showcase” South Afr...