Monday, March 07, 2011

Egyptians storm their Bastille

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The storming of the headquarters of Egypt’s secret police over the weekend, while soldiers stood by, is another remarkable episode in the co...
Friday, March 04, 2011

Real courage under fire

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As WikiLeaks founder Julan Assange works on his appeal in London against extradition to Sweden, Private First Class Bradley Manning will beg...
Thursday, March 03, 2011

Climate activists change course

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There will be no Camp for Climate Action this year, and leading activists say this is in recognition of the world’s changing economic and po...
Wednesday, March 02, 2011

King's speech wins Oscar for half-truths

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As everyone who buys their own food and fuel knows, price rises are accelerating. Even in the unlikely event that the revolutionary uprising...
Tuesday, March 01, 2011

Miliband also in denial

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If Colonel Gaddafi is said to be “delusional”, believing that all Libyans love him when clearly they do not, where does that leave Ed Miliba...
Monday, February 28, 2011

Revolution renews itself

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The people’s revolution sweeping north Africa and the Middle East has entered a second phase, gathering a momentum of its own in country aft...
Friday, February 25, 2011

Revolt heading your way sometime soon

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When the wave of revolutions and resistance reaches Europe from North Africa and the Middle East, as it surely will, what happens in Britain...
Thursday, February 24, 2011

Palm oil forests good for business, bad for the planet

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The Adam Smith Institute has stepped in to the palm oil plantation debate with an astonishing report suggesting that bio-fuels should be wel...
Wednesday, February 23, 2011

'Devil's excrement' has its revenge

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The revolutionary upsurge in North Africa and the Middle East is having a direct impact on the global crisis of capitalism. Oil pric...
Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Welcome to the market state

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From welfare to market state is the name of the project that Thatcher began, Blair and Brown continued and Cameron is intent on completing. ...
Monday, February 21, 2011

The point of no return

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The anti-government demonstrations sweeping Libya mark a stunning turn of events in the revolutionary upsurge sweeping North Africa and the ...
Friday, February 18, 2011

How Cairo connects to Wisconsin and Britain

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As people battle tanks and security forces in Bahrain, Libya, Iran and Yemen, and hundreds of thousands gather once more in Tahrir Square in...
Thursday, February 17, 2011

Climate change will 'overwhelm governments'

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Anger over soaring food prices was a major factor in the Egyptian uprising and the United Nations’ top climate official warned this week tha...
Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Obama's stimulus plans deepen debt crisis

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As the political front man for the world’s most powerful capitalist nation, you might expect President Barack Obama to have some degree of c...
Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Bigger state no answer to 'Big Society'

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David Cameron’s crusade for the “Big Society” should compel its opponents to question and reconsider the role of the state in our corporate-...
Monday, February 14, 2011

'You Go - We Stay' fits the bill everywhere

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The Egyptian revolution continues its unfinished business. Before but especially since Hosni Mubarak was overthrown, a situation of dual pow...
Friday, February 11, 2011

Economic 'growth' a very dirty business

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If anyone needed convincing about the direct link between the in-built growth drive of capitalist economy and climate change, they can thank...
Thursday, February 10, 2011

Glasgow occupation leads fight for survival

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Students occupying Glasgow University’s Hetherington Research Club building, have called for a mass protest on February 16 to oppose devasta...
Wednesday, February 09, 2011

'Slavery' behind the food on your table

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In the two years since the global crisis erupted, conditions in Spain for migrant workers from Morocco, West Africa and Eastern Europe that ...
Tuesday, February 08, 2011

Uniting theory and practice

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At a recent meeting of students who had come together from a range of occupations against the rise in tuition fees, a proposal about creatin...