Opinion
Friday, 21 October 2011 12:42
Last Saturday in Rome, as 200,000 protested, a huge, colourful mass mobilization and a youth riot both took place at the same time. Leo Goretti looks at the background.
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The Occupy Wall Street movement spread rapidly from New York to Los Angeles, Washington DC, and more than twenty other US cities. On 15th October, it arrived in Europe with a bang, writes Marienna Pope-Weidemann.
Not being allowed into Paternoster Square, home of the London Stock Exchange, was no less disappointing for its being predictable. Protesters bedded down for a peaceful occupation of St. Paul's, and are still there.
Having fled as a child, Mitra Qayoom describes returning to Afghanistan after twenty years and what war and repression have meant for the country.
Liam Fox, that friend of liberty, that most rabid Tory, has done it again. Joe Glenton, on a man who’s only qualification in defence matters is that of a civilian GP on a military base, where he once worked near some servicemen.
Tomorrow the High Court will rule on the future of the Dale Farm site. It should listen to the UN and stop the council's eviction plans.
Since the death of Steve Jobs last week the innovator has been lauded as a visionary who changed the way we live our lives. Charles Brown thinks different.
As the police clamp down on the right to protest, Sean Rillo Raczka argues that we need a more forceful resistance than ever.
Joe Glenton: The disillusionment amongst soldiers, on both sides of the Atlantic, is rising.
Joseph Daher looks at the role of Al Jazeera as both a tool of Qatar’s political and economic interests, but which also sometimes shares sympathy with popular movements in the region.
Labour's proposals for £6,000 university fees utterly fail to challenge the assault on higher education in Britain. This year the student movement must link its struggle to the wider movement against austerity.
Tariq Ali's lecture for the Hazlitt Society paints a picture of a bitter world fighting back, argues Kate Webb
Whilst resistance grows the organised Left continues to be weak. Chris Bambery looks at the difficulties and changes the Left has endured since '68 and what the Left must do if it's to grow and influence the anti-austerity struggle.
The explosion at the French nuclear plant is a timely reminder of the dangers of nuclear energy. It should be another wake-up call for the UK government, says Kate Hudson.
In a virtual declaration of war, Balfour Beaty Engineering Services yesterday issued 90 day Notices of termination to 890 of their workforce, but across Britain workers are using novel tactics to resist the construction bosses.
Removing government responsibility for the provision of healthcare amounts to a neoliberal raid on the welfare state, and demands our relenting opposition, argues Oliver Westerman.
The British Intelligence services are accused of involvement in rendition and torture - ten years after the beginning of the war on terror, it continues to undermine the credibility our ruling elite argues Peter Stauber.
Public revulsion over the Murdoch scandal is connected to wider discontent about power and privilege, and cuts in public services. The Leveson Inquiry is far from ideal, but can be used alongside more radical initiatives to challenge media power.
Thousands of anti-racists demonstrated in East London yesterday, defying the English Defence League who wanted to march through the multicultural borough of Tower Hamlets.
The combined elements of Al Qaeda apologists, Ex-Regime figureheads and NATO backing is beginning to look like a decreasingly promising prospect for safe transition argues Joshua Virasami.More Articles...
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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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