David: The statement below in solidarity with the Syrian revolution is attracting an...
Jamie: As the Obama administration scrambles to revive negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, peace process bores...
Tom: This is a guest post from UK Tar Sands Network, People & Planet and other activists concerned about...
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To mark 65 years since the 'nakba', Aimee Shalan reports on everyday life for Palestinians under occupation in three West Bank villages.
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We need to talk about the existence of Žižek tote bags and Melanie Phillips umbrellas.
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The first of a two part discussion about the ideas of the French communist intellectual Alain Badiou.
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The vile bigotry that sustains the far right is common in UKIP and in the Conservative Party, which has been happy to reinforce popular bigotry to secure votes and divide the lower orders.
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In normal times, an arithmetic mistake in an economics paper would be a complete nonevent as far as the wider world was concerned. But in...
An elderly worker who was run over last night during a demonstration about the contentious blacklisting issue will need re- constructive...
On Monday we were treated to another batch of media headlines purportedly revealing evidence of ‘extremism’ at British universities. The...
General Efrain Rios Montt has been found guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity. He has already begun his “irrevocable” sentence of...
Michael Mann: Climate change is already costing us $1 trillion a year. Aljazeera asks Professor Mann why there is still confusion...
Friday is the proverbial "take out the trash day" for the release of bad news among public relations practitioners and this Friday was no different. In that...
By the Campaign to stop the deportation of Luqman Onikosi Find more about Luqman’s campaign and his experiences as a migrant fighting deportation.
Climate change? It’s so last century! Defra, the environment department, is planning to cut the number of civil servants working on how we adapt to climate change from...
لا لتلك "النكبة: الليبرالية الفلسطينية أمام القضاء الإسرائيلي. يعود معنى...
- Caroline Criado-Perez Women getting fired from their jobs because they sprouted their first crow’s foot. Men – and only men – talking about women’s bodies. Men holding nearly twice as … Continue reading...
In the New York Review of Books this week, Paul Krugman wrote a piece on why austerity was taken up and why it has failed. In passing he commented “It’s also worth noting that while...
By Nadia Kamil / @nadiakamil I recently saw the Oscar-nominated 5 Broken Cameras and it affected me deeply – though definitely not the first film to make me cry, it was the first film...
Penny Lewis, a sociologist at CUNY’s Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies, has a new book out: Hardhats, Hippies, and Hawks: The Vietnam...
When Ken Loach launched an appeal to discuss founding a new party to the left of Labour in March, it sparked a wave of enthusiasm. Within a few weeks, more than 8,000 people signed up and...
As a Canadian it blows my mind that we can have the second largest deposits of oil in the world, but our government remains billions in debt and one in seven Canadian children live in...
This graph is interesting. Read all about it from Paul Krugman in the New York Review of Books, here.
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