Alex: This is a guest post by Guppi Bola, Public Health campaigner and no.1 fan of all things levelled...
Alex: Tanya Hawkes on poet, journalist and acclaimed rapper Akala... Akala is a lyrical and musical library. He can rhyme a...
Tom: This evening the Coordinating Committee for Media Reform are hosting a public rally at Westminster Central Hall....
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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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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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Mark Fisher discusses the status of capitalist realism, social media and the challenges for the left today.
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Do the recent elections in Greece and France signal the beginning of the end of austerity?
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Dear Anarchists, I love you. You are my brethren, my tribe, my people. Your incendiary prose and poetry, your razor-sharp critiques, your...
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...
Routledge named Chomsky its ‘Super Author’ of the month (only the month? pfft!) and made available a selection of his essay for free....
An extended interview with Israeli activist Matan Kaminer about the state of the left in Israeli society after the controversial J14 social...
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...
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....
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...
The European Parliament voted today – by a thumping 487 to 152 – for a Europe-wide Financial Transactions Tax (FTT) to be...
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...
Over the last two years, austerity has tightened its grip on the welfare system. Levels of child benefit have been...
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...
Justin Elliott writes at ProPublica: The National Association of Broadcasters is asking a federal appeals court to block a rule passed by...
Chris Hellman and Mattea Kramer write at Tomdispatch: Recent months have seen a flurry of headlines about cuts (often called “threats”) to...
The Liberal Defence of Murder:American Insurgents:Copyleft of Lenin's Tomb
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...
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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