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.
It's as if Iraq and Afghanistan never happened. This time it's different, say the politicians, knowing the media's ingrained memory loss can be relied on to serve their interests.
As tough sentences are handed out, Joe Glenton questions the rationality of heavy-handed policing, and calls for a united campaign against authoritarian and racist policing.
Lindsey German: Britain's rulers refuse to confront any of the problems which led to the riots - not unlike the French monarchy before it was overthrown in 1789
Simply being a member of a union or raising health and safety concerns can result in workers being blacklisted and denied employment in their trade. This is the account of blacklisted construction worker Steve Acheson.
The mainstream debate about 'parenting' is a blank canvas onto which the ruling class paint an image of moral decay without addressing the root causes of social problems, argues Laura Woods.
People from all backgrounds – black, white, Asian, working class and middle class turned out to clean up their areas after the riots. Amongst them was Charles Brown, who looks at the contradictions of the riot clean up movement.
Some thuggery is more worthy of condemnation than others. Don't hold your breath in waiting for David Cameron to express outrage over the "sickening violence" of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq or the bombing of Libya.
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.
It's as if Iraq and Afghanistan never happened. This time it's different, say the politicians, knowing the media's ingrained memory loss can be relied on to serve their interests.
As tough sentences are handed out, Joe Glenton questions the rationality of heavy-handed policing, and calls for a united campaign against authoritarian and racist policing.
Lindsey German: Britain's rulers refuse to confront any of the problems which led to the riots - not unlike the French monarchy before it was overthrown in 1789
Simply being a member of a union or raising health and safety concerns can result in workers being blacklisted and denied employment in their trade. This is the account of blacklisted construction worker Steve Acheson.
The mainstream debate about 'parenting' is a blank canvas onto which the ruling class paint an image of moral decay without addressing the root causes of social problems, argues Laura Woods.
People from all backgrounds – black, white, Asian, working class and middle class turned out to clean up their areas after the riots. Amongst them was Charles Brown, who looks at the contradictions of the riot clean up movement.
Lindsey German writing for the Huffington Post - David Cameron's focus on the family serves to absolve the authorities of blame.
Some thuggery is more worthy of condemnation than others. Don't hold your breath in waiting for David Cameron to express outrage over the "sickening violence" of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq or the bombing of Libya.