The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces has to be overthrown and the Muslim Brotherhood are no longer welcome in Tahrir. Read more
Creating a climate of fear that intimidates all working class people is the real intention of the Welfare Reform Bill argues Neil Faulkner. Read more
The Tories are crowing over their opinion poll lead and claiming majority support for cuts. But the left shouldn’t believe the hype, argues Adrian Cousins. Read more
Elaine Graham-Leigh argues that the BBC's The Crusades repeats the ideological justifications for the war on terror. Read more
Nadine El-Hadi reviews Tweets from Tahrir, documenting the thoughts and emotions of key activists during the 18 days of revolutionary upheaval in Egypt one year ago. Read more
![]() UK media peddles myths to support the case for war on IranThere is no more evidence that Iran is developing nuclear weapons than there was for Iraq's weapons of mass destruction but that hasn't stopped the media stoking the flames of war. Iran | News UnSpun | Friday, 27 January 2012 |
Wincanton drivers strikeUnionNews reports on the start of seven days of strike action by more than 120 fuel haulage drivers in a campaign of ind... |
Comment: Social media and freedom of speech in universitiesOn Saturday 21st January 2012 the following email was sent to all students at the University of East Anglia (UEA): ... |
Video: Plymouth police harrass pensioner in Pickles protestPolice accuse a pensioner opposed to a new incinerator of "causing a breach of the peace" for attempting to deliver a le... |
Not just the usual suspects: Unison and GMB leaders attack Labour’s cuts capitulationThe acceptance of Tory cuts and the suggestion that Labour will support the pay freeze and even pay cuts has caused eve... |
![]() Video: Speeches from protest against sanctions and war on IranSpeeches by Tony Benn, John Rees and Andrew Murray at today's Stop the War Coalition protest at the US embassy called to oppose the growing threat of military a... Video | Dan Poulton | Saturday, 28 January 2012 |
![]() The anniversary SCAF didn't want us to reportThe anniversary SCAF didn’t want John Rees and Joseph Daher report on a historic day in Cairo. International | John Rees and Joseph Daher | Wednesday, 25 January 2012 |
![]() A Marxist History of the World part 59: The Franco-Prussian WarIn this week's chapter of the Marxist History series Neil Faulkner looks at how Germany’s ruling elite brought about a bourgeois revolution ‘from above’. A Marxist History of The World | Neil Faulkner | Monday, 23 January 2012 |
![]() Climate change movements: Where are we going?Since 2009, the climate change movement has been losing momentum. But failure should not be taken as the whole story of Copenhagen and its aftermath, argues Ela... Climate change | | Tuesday, 24 January 2012 |
![]() Howard Zinn: On WarThis collection ranks as one of the great denunciations of war. Above all it takes the notion of ‘good’ or ‘humanitarian’ military intervention to pieces. It ... Book Reviews | | Thursday, 19 January 2012 |
![]() You're fired!Education secretary Michael Gove is proposing to introduce measures to make it easier to sack teachers - Alastair Stephens argues its represents a worrying tren... Opinion | Alastair Stephens | Wednesday, 25 January 2012 |

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