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  1. 23 May

    Getting Into the Spirit of Things

    Alex: This is a guest post by Guppi Bola, Public Health campaigner and no.1 fan of all things levelled...

  2. 18 May

    Rebel Music #12 Akala

    Alex: Tanya Hawkes on poet, journalist and acclaimed rapper Akala... Akala is a lyrical and musical library. He can rhyme a...

  3. 17 May

    Media reform rally tonight

    Tom: This evening the Coordinating Committee for Media Reform are hosting a public rally at Westminster Central Hall....

Feature Articles...

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    The Beecroft Report: A Financier’s Dream

    by David Renton

    Employment barrister and author David Renton on the proposed changes to employment law contained in the Government's controversial Beecroft Report.

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    Boris and the Beeb

    by Tom Mills

    Is the BBC really 'overwhelmingly biased to the Left' as Boris Johnson claimed last week? Only if we ignore the crucial question of power, argues Tom Mills.

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    Towards a New Hegemony

    by Mark Fisher, Samuel Grove, Ed Lewis

    Mark Fisher discusses the status of capitalist realism, social media and the challenges for the left today.

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    The Eurozone Crisis - An Opportunity For the Left?

    by Robin Hahnel, Alex Doherty

    Do the recent elections in Greece and France signal the beginning of the end of austerity?

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Elsewhere on the web...

  1. Dear Anarchists

    by Marlo Pedroso | 22 May 2012

    Dear Anarchists, I love you. You are my brethren, my tribe, my people. Your incendiary prose and poetry, your razor-sharp critiques, your...

  2. An International Movement for a Participatory Society?

    by Greater London IOPS | 20 May 2012

    How does one approach the creation of a new world in the face of such confusion, cynicism, ignorance and alienation? The left has failed at...

  3. Free Chomsky essays

    by Noam Chomsky | 19 May 2012

    Routledge named Chomsky its ‘Super Author’ of the month (only the month? pfft!) and made available a selection of his essay for free....

  4. ‘Fail Again and Fail Better’

    by Matan Kaminer, Max Ajl | 19 May 2012

    An extended interview with Israeli activist Matan Kaminer about the state of the left in Israeli society after the controversial J14 social...

New Left Blogosphere...

  1. Web links for 23rd May 2012

    by ToUChstone blog

    Hollande Honeymoon Brings France Record Low Yields Bloomberg reports that "France finds itself in a sweet spot, drawing the strongest auction demand since the European debt crisis began in 2009 as bond...

  2. The government’s unimpressive job creation record

    by ToUChstone blog

    At Prime Minister’s Questions today (watch here from about 19 minutes in)  Mr Cameron repeated his claim that his government has created 600,000 net new private sector jobs....

  3. BoE Agents’ Report suggests unemployment due to rise

    by ToUChstone blog

    Today’s summary of the reports from the Bank of England’s agents says that private sector employment likely to be “broadly unchanged” for the next six months. We know that...

  4. Euro-Parliament’s clear message to EU leaders: for growth’s sake, let’s have a Robin Hood Tax!

    by ToUChstone blog

    The European Parliament voted today – by a thumping 487 to 152 – for a Europe-wide Financial Transactions Tax (FTT) to be...

  1. Pat McFadden is right: we need to be making things

    by ToUChstone blog

    On Monday, Pat McFadden, MP for Wolverhampton South East, former Minister at the Department for Business and one-time member of Tony Blair’s Policy Unit, published a paper...

  2. Pressure mounts on single parents to move off unemployment benefits, but where are the family-friendly jobs?

    by ToUChstone blog

    Over the last two years, austerity has tightened its grip on the welfare system. Levels of child benefit have been...

  3. Are Egyptians voting Ideologically?

    by Informed Comment

    Interpreting political behavior in a brand spanking new democracy such as Egypt is trying to become is littered with pitfalls, and these are multiplied when dealing with the Middle East. The...

  4. NBC,Fox, CBS etc. Protest transparency requirement on Political Advertising (Elliott)

    by Informed Comment

    Justin Elliott writes at ProPublica: The National Association of Broadcasters is asking a federal appeals court to block a rule passed by...

  1. Americans pay $1 Trillion a year for War and ‘Security’ – Why? (Hellman & Kramer)

    by Informed Comment

    Chris Hellman and Mattea Kramer write at Tomdispatch: Recent months have seen a flurry of headlines about cuts (often called “threats”) to...

  2. The illustrated works

    by Lenins Tomb

    The Liberal Defence of Murder:American Insurgents:Copyleft of Lenin's Tomb

  3. Monetary and fiscal stimulus are not the same thing

    by ToUChstone blog

    I’m still working my way through the IMF’s thoughts on the UK economy. But so far I’m inclined to agree with Larry Elliot’s take at the Guardian: The IMF says plan B...

  4. President Obama and the Black Male Homosexual

    by Though Coward Flinch

    President Obama coming out as supportive of gay marriage has caused quite a stir, not least within the so-called black community itself, which though largely Democrat has often...

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