Wednesday, July 31, 2013

They take the profits - we pay for the clean up

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Somehow, the public always ends up with the bill for dirty energy operations, whilst the corporations take the profits and run. In 2010, it...
Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Wanted: A Chartism for our times

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As Labour prepares to terminate its historic relationship with the very trade unions that founded the party, the questions of democracy and...
Monday, July 29, 2013

Army rule in Egypt rejected by new movement

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With the brutal murder of 74 – probably more - pro-Morsi supporters and persecution of thousands of Muslim Brotherhood members by the army ...
Friday, July 26, 2013

Capitalism's Arctic plan - get the oil, destroy the lives of millions

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Citizens of every country will pay a massive, painful price for the melting of Arctic sea ice, even though capitalist corporations and gove...
Thursday, July 25, 2013

Sleeping giant threatens rule of China's corrupt elite

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China is in the grip of a profound social, political and economic crisis. The evidence is there in corruption scandals, a fading economy a...
Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Climate chaos is also the failure of political systems

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While you enjoy the warm weather, consider this. “Atmospheric Rivers” will become more frequent and intense as global temperatures rise thi...
Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Miliband to apply coup de grace to Labour's history

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What a day! There was wall-to-wall media coverage of just one of 370,000 babies born yesterday around the world and confirmation that Labou...
Friday, July 19, 2013

George Obsorne - CEO of Britain PLC

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“The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.” So wrote Karl Marx and Fri...
Thursday, July 18, 2013

Corporate lobbyists prepare ground for Heathrow expansion

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News that Heathrow is proposing not one, but two new runways in its submission to the Davies Commission on aviation expansion, is the culmi...
Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Don't let them kill off the NHS

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“As long as you’ve got your health.” It’s a refrain I remember my mother sharing with her friends and relations as we were growing up in th...
Tuesday, July 16, 2013

'Virtual' Romanistan the way forward

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The commemoration of the murder of Romani prisoners by the Nazis in the Auschwitz concentration camp in August 1944 is a chance to reflect ...
Sunday, July 14, 2013

Bulgarians in revolt against a country 'parcelled out to business interests'

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A month of continuous demonstrations against the Bulgarian government has brought the Balkan state’s population alongside struggles in Egyp...
Thursday, July 11, 2013

The planet is drowning in waste

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The planet is being overwhelmed by waste of all kinds, from plastic bags to throwaway digital devices. Even remote areas such as Alaskan be...

Tennis is a game that's hard to love

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Andy Murray, Wimbledon champion. I was there to see it, even if it was just on the big screen inside the grounds, a couple of hundred metr...
Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Global capitalism's new world disorder

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Yet again, in its latest world economic outlook the International Monetary Fund has been forced to cut its forecast for growth worldwide. E...
Tuesday, July 09, 2013

Miliband follows in Tories' footsteps with opt-in plans

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Whichever way he dresses it up, Ed Miliband’s plan for trade union members to opt-in to paying a subscription to Labour is an historic brea...
Monday, July 08, 2013

Labour provides cover for state spies

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Labour’s shadow home secretary, Yvette Cooper, will say today that she is “appalled” by revelations about the Metropolitan Police’s use of ...