Tuesday, 26 February 2013 10:00
The US state is pursuing a punitive and merciless policy against a courageous individual who has dared to expose the malevolence that lies beneath Obama's veneer of 'hope and change'
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The state and the corporations are working in harness to destroy the NHS - we have to build great movement of ordinary people to defend it
The UK’s recent credit downgrade from triple A to AA1 is a disaster for George Osborne and his austerity programme
As the fourth largest European economy goes to the polls Alastair Stephens looks at the background to another potential crisis for the Euro and austerity
Dancho Medarov evaluates the political crisis and corruption in Bulgaria and the development and response of the anti-neoliberal movement
In just two weeks, support for the People’s Assembly has been overwhelming - Sam Fairbairn reports on the most recent developments
Climate deniers’ assault on the science of global warming is roundly dispatched and shown for the corporate, ideological fraud that it is, by the climate scientist Michael Mann, finds Elaine Graham-Leigh
A protest in King's Lynn on 16 February 2013 against the Coalition's welfare reforms
Sean Ledwith looks at the ongoing debate concerning the legacy of a writer whose relationship with the left was always ambiguous
Far from improving schools, the education secretary is trying to divide teachers and make the education system more viable for private sector providers, writes Martin Copson
Students at University of Sussex protest against privatisation, forcing their way past security to join the occupiers of Bramber House
The theories of Permanent Revolution and Deflected Permanent Revolution remain of central importance despite the doubts expressed in Neil Davidson’s How Revolutionary Were the Bourgeois Revolutions?
Mervyn King's rosy assessment of the prospects for the UK economy may be wishful thinking argues James Meadway
John Pilger's new documentary reveals that there is a great war going on, a war that we truly do not see - the war against the truth
From the Islamic Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution, from the British Empire to the Berlin Wall, this video series looks at momentous events that shaped the world we know today
Noon Arabia writes on the anniversary of Yemen's revolution - marked by a young man setting himself on fire in protest at the treatment of injured revolutionaries
Ten years after the largest protest in British history in February 2003, activists examine Britain's legacy in Iraq and the era of continuous warfare. Video report by Hassan Ghani
Stop the War Coalition's conference on confronting war ten years after February 15th was addressed by speakers from the global movement against the 'war on terror'. Video by Paul Hanes
Elle Gierre finds a wealth of provocative, sizzling and dangerous ideas in the first issue of Strike! Magazine, with its diverse, visual and thought-provoking pieces
The sacking of four Trade Unionists at Halesowen College in highly controversial circumstances sets a dangerous precedent argues Adam Tomes
Equal marriage has been endorsed by Parliament. Elly Badcock argues that, whilst progressive, it is somewhat peripheral to the fights facing the LGBT community today
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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