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Wednesday, 01 May 2013 11:46
In the first of a regular series, Elle Gierre's letter from Italy reports on a left struggling to get a grip on a country in crisis
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As tensions rise on the Korean peninsula its worth remembering that the US spends more than the next 42 countries combined on waging war
As David Cameron plans another housing boom in Britain, Yaiza Hernández looks at how the people of Spain are suffering - and resisting - the dire consequences of a bursting bubble
A protest movement that began over the issue of corruption has grown into a challenge to all political élites, austerity measures, and the capitalist system as a whole writes Brigita Gračner
Dancho Medarov evaluates the political crisis and corruption in Bulgaria and the development and response of the anti-neoliberal movement
After half a century of stable, even boring, politics Japan has entered a more unpredictable era - with an emerging space for the growth of a new left
Mohamed Atef reports from Cairo on the mass mobilisations against President Morsi
The left should not fall into the trap of allying with the enemies of the revolution, writes Tamer Wagih
Despite growing repression, a new left is on the rise in Russia, says Alastair Stephens
Alexis de Tocqueville said that ‘The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform’ It’s a maxim relevant to China today, argues Sean Ledwith
Anti-austerity organisations across Portugal have written a letter addressed to Angela Merkel explaining why she is not welcome in Portugal
Portugal’s creative forces joined together for an exciting day of protest against the failed policies of austerity, reports João Camargo
The barbaric shooting of the brave Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai can neither be dressed up in the language of anti-imperialism, nor be exploited to push foreign intervention, argues Derrick O'Keefe
Recent developments in Syria suggest ways in which western intervention may well be escalated within the conflict-stricken country, argues Dan Poulton
Once again, Venezuela voted for the representative of a popular mass movement – and against a cold-blooded elite, writes Tony McKenna
Sofia Tipaldou reports from the front line in the battle against austerity in Spain
Black labour in post-apartheid South Africa has entered a new era of independent trade unionism and militant class struggle, argues Neil Faulkner
As civil war, imperial intervention and sectarianism threaten to undermine the Syrian uprising the Kurds, up until now a lesser actor, appear to be moving towards centre stage, argues Alastair Stephens
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- Why US drone attacks should stop in Yemen and elsewhere
- South Africa: trouble for the ANC
- After Fukushima: Japan's anti-nuclear protest movement
- Japan and China: what's going on?
- Real lives: imperial fictions and Afghan facts
- Syria, sectarianism and the threat of wider war
- Pussy Riot three go down unbowed
- South Korea: hired thugs enforce lock out
- Pussy Riot: figureheads of Russia’s protest movement
31 May - 1 June 2013
an international festival
In the parks, halls and public spaces around Kings Cross
With:
David Harvey, Tariq Ali, Tony Benn, Owen Jones, Nina Power, Sanum Ghafoor, Andrew Murray, Laurie Penny, Lindsey German, Jeremy Corbyn MP, Paul Le Blanc, Terry Eagleton, Paul Gilroy and more...
Saturday 22 June 2013
9:30am – 5pm
Central Hall Westminster
Events
Books
How a Century of War Changed the Lives of Women
By Lindsey German
A Marxist History of the World
From Neanderthals to Neoliberals
By Neil Faulkner
The People V Tony Blair
Politics, the Media and the Anti-War Movement
By Chris Nineham
Timelines
A Political History of the Modern World
By John Rees
A People's History of London
By Lindsey German and John Rees
Counterfire Books
The People Demand: A short history of the Arab revolutions
By John Rees and Joseph Daher
Strategy and tactics: how the left can organise to transform society
By John Rees
Capitalism and Class Consciousness: the ideas of Georg Lukacs
By Chris Nineham
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