Wednesday, June 08, 2011

Eat or heat - the choice facing millions

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As energy and food prices soar, jobs and services disappear and incomes are cut it amounts to the worst assault on living standards in livin...
Tuesday, June 07, 2011

Gated intellectual community for the rich

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Philosopher A.C. Grayling’s justification for setting up a super-elite academy charging students £18,000 a year is a wretched example ...
Monday, June 06, 2011

Market and capitalism go hand in hand

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Bit of a shock to the system when I read a press release from the Trades Union Congress this morning that attacks “the embrace of market cap...
Friday, June 03, 2011

Beyond the 'democratic transition'

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The Egyptian revolution that overthrew the Mubarak dictatorship in January also created the conditions for uniting the masses of North Afric...
Thursday, June 02, 2011

Ecosystems under attack

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A groundbreaking assessment shows that the Britain ’s undervalued ecosystem has been damaged by 50 years of intensive agriculture, reckless ...
Wednesday, June 01, 2011

No going back to Bedlam

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Grace, a 92-year-old lady chained herself to the railings in Llandeilo, a small West Wales town, last Friday in protest at the closure of ...
Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Older people victims of a market failure

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The threatened collapse of Southern Cross , Britain ’s biggest care home company, is the latest episode in a crisis that leaves up to a mill...
Friday, May 27, 2011

Reclaim democracy now!

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Just because global elites are always harping on about “democracy”, claiming it as the ideal political system, doesn’t mean that we abstain ...
Thursday, May 26, 2011

No local democracy on nuclear issues

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The government has given the go-ahead for Augean Plc to dump nuclear contaminated waste in an ordinary landfill site outside the village of...
Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Obama's spending cuts target the poor

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While President Obama is enjoying his European tour, which is essentially a PR trip to boost his chances of re-election next year, his admin...
Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Power is not a dirty word

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The occupation of Puerta del Sol in Madrid and actions in other Spanish cities organised by the Real Democracy Now/M-15 movement, openly ch...
Monday, May 23, 2011

Obama's warning to Israel falls on deaf ears

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President Obama’s latest speeches on Palestine , like his visit to Ireland and to London , are arousing a whole range of emotions and react...
Friday, May 20, 2011

Madrid echoes the spirit of Tahrir Square

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The Real Democracy Now movement that has sprung up across Spain , with a main square in Madrid under occupation since Sunday, is a key mome...
Thursday, May 19, 2011

Peak extraction of minerals spells disaster

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Environmental damage and increased global warming are the direct result of a poisonous combination of commodity speculation, reckless ove...
Wednesday, May 18, 2011

How an IT programme became a licence to print money

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Connecting for Health , the £12 billion national IT programme for the NHS launched in 2002, is in serious trouble according to the National ...