Friday, March 30, 2012

Galloway victory confirms political meltdown

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The Bradford West by-election triumphantly won by George Galloway confirms that Labour’s support in working class communities is extremely f...
Thursday, March 29, 2012

How the 'Great Acceleration' put profits before the eco-system

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As a measure of wealth, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is not only inadequate but leads governments to prioritise policies and activities that...
Wednesday, March 28, 2012

ConDems tool up for confrontation

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Yesterday community shops throughout the UK received a message asking “how community shops have collaborated with each other and other local...
Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Zambian miners resist new colonialists

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In the 21st century version of the scramble for Africa, the copper miners of Zambia are leading the resistance to a modern form of coloniali...
Monday, March 26, 2012

Politics a commodity for sale

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Politics, like most things in our globalised capitalist society, has become a commodity for sale at market prices. The cash-for-access scand...
Friday, March 23, 2012

Profit before nutrition makes you sick

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The world’s food systems are “deeply dysfunctional” and society is paying an exorbitant price for a diet of processed food that ignores huma...
Thursday, March 22, 2012

A panic Budget as economy worsens

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Figures published by the Office for Budget Responsibility on the morning of the Budget statement, and the Office for National Statistics tod...
Wednesday, March 21, 2012

NHS vote marks end of parliamentary road

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While last night’s vote to approve the health bill marks the end of the parliamentary road – in more ways than one – the future of the NHS i...
Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Market state wrecks public services

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The ConDems’ health bill is part of a major shift in the role of the state that dates back to the Thatcher period and the onset of corporate...
Monday, March 19, 2012

Tory master plan for a new social order

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“Our school is being absolutely bullied, and we are sick to death of it”, said one parent outside Downhills Primary School in Tottenham, Nor...
Thursday, March 15, 2012

'Poverty Games' comes to Glasgow

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Visitors from Vancouver will join local people to carry the Poverty Olympics Torch in Glasgow's East End today, protesting at scandalous...
Wednesday, March 14, 2012

How the 'plutonomists' bought governments

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Citigroup is something special. With the largest financial services network in the world, it is a banking and finance behemoth, effectively ...
Tuesday, March 13, 2012

How the system is undemocratic

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As the Occupy movement in London (and elsewhere), discusses next steps, it is as well to restate some basics about the extremely limited dem...
Monday, March 12, 2012

Young men as killing machines

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We’ve been here before. The killing of at least 16 Afghan civilians - nine of them children - in Kandahar province on Saturday night evokes ...
Friday, March 09, 2012

A default by any other name

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When is a default not a default? When the Greek government and the European Central Bank pretend otherwise. In the real world, the truth is ...
Thursday, March 08, 2012

Egyptians pays heavy price for IMF loan

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The Egyptian government has accepted a $3.2 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in return for a ruthless austerity progr...
Wednesday, March 07, 2012

'Big Bang' moment will shatter NHS

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Even as the bill dismantling the health service completes its journey into law, older people in care homes have already been abandoned in a ...
Tuesday, March 06, 2012

China's kleptocracy cashes in as resistance grows

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China’s National People’s Congress, which is now in session in Beijing, is in effect a gathering of the country’s most powerful shareholders...
Monday, March 05, 2012

Putin's 'victory' tainted from the start

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The anti-Putin rally planned for Moscow today will have to defy a state of siege organised by an undemocratic, authoritarian regime that wei...
Thursday, March 01, 2012

Murdoch and the Met uncut

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The Leveson media ethics inquiry, now in its fourth month, is unravelling an increasingly sinister web of corruption between the Murdoch med...