Opinion
Tuesday, 21 February 2012 20:54
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Veolia is a multinational providing transport and waste services in Israel's illegal settlements in the Occupied Territories of Palestine.
Tesco has been exposed in a new scandal over the Coalition's 'Workfare' policy. Sean Coyle argues that it exposes the government's obsession with big business.
Those who nurture stereotypes about the Greek national character are concerned with a much more immediate agenda – turning workers of different countries against each other.
With twenty-two EU states signed up to the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), the stakes for digital freedom have never been higher, argues Marienna Pope-Weidemann
A Liverpool fan explains why there can be no excuses for the racism of Suarez and the refusal of Kenny Dalglish to challenge it.
The BBC website offers the chance to play at being the President of Europe, to show the difficulties of balancing climate change and votes, instead it demonstrates how capitalism cannot tackle climate change, argues Jo Gough.
A controversy about women’s boxing, ahead of this summer’s Olympics, illustrates deeper problems with sexism in sport and society.
The machine that mass-manufactures ‘consensus’ in support of the neoliberal agenda is investigated by Marienna Pope-Weidemann.
Chris Bambery discusses the propaganda campaign being waged by the West in the build up of Western aggression against Iran.
Marwan Muhammad writes on how the growing islamophobia in France is often conducted in the name of 'laïcité', or secularism.
Forced labour in the British prison system is to be massively increased by Tory Home Secretary Ken Clarke.
David Lammy’s cunning plan of hitting children to make them less likely to be violent has a fairly obvious flaw writes Laura Woods.
The Falklands war was thirty years ago this year, but for David Cameron, the conflict’s not over, argues Jack Penn.
'Generation Rent' looks less like a passing phase created by a short term 'bubble' and more like a long term change in the housing market, writes Alastair Stephens.
Creating a climate of fear that intimidates all working class people is the real intention of the Welfare Reform Bill argues Neil Faulkner.
Education secretary Michael Gove is proposing to introduce measures to make it easier to sack teachers - part of a worrying trend across industry.
The Tories have attacked the SNP over the future of Trident and the British military if Scotland becomes independent. Pressing the SNP to stick to its policy of scrapping Trident will be vitally important says Jonathon Shafi.
Government ministers are creating the impression that hundreds of thousands of migrants are arriving to claim benefits. Don Flynn of Migrants Rights Network argues this picture is a distortion of the truth.More Articles...
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Events
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