Alex: Malte Ringer on the great chronicler of the struggles of blue collar America - Bruce...
David: A guest post by Pablo Navarrete In January 2011 more than 600 (mostly young) people packed into a...
Alex: Chris Famighetti on punk subversives Crass.... In an interview with NME magazine in 1981 Joe Strummer said the...
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Do the recent elections in Greece and France signal the beginning of the end of austerity?
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One of the founding members of the newly launched Anticapitalist Initiative discusses why we need a new organisation for the British radical left.
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An extract from "The Imperial Messenger – Thomas Friedman At Work" the new book by Belén Fernández
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Communities thrive better in a mixed economy.
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Dave Boyle argues that the crisis in the media is a moment of opportunity to bring co-operative structures and business models to the...
The authoritarian regime in Bahrain, now a symbol of the failures of the ‘Arab Spring’, was largely created by the British government...
The recent electoral results in Greece was a serious blow to the governments of Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy [referred to collectively...
The Occupy movement has been an extremely exciting development. Unprecedented, in fact. There’s never been anything like it that I can...
Tuesday 15th May: Open speculation about whether Greece can remain a member of the eurozone is “damaging” for the whole of Europe, Chancellor George...
This week is a big one for the Robin Hood Tax, with major developments in the USA and Europe. Despite regular reports of its demise – the result of spinning by...
Yesterday’s guest post from Louise Woodruff of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) made for harrowing but unfortunately all too familiar reading. Louise provided a resume on the new...
If I had to start from scratch gleaning gossip to write about, I’d imagine carefully constructed narratives using “sources” in order to give the illusion I was someone that insiders already go to – the...
1. The Department of the Interior has given the green light to a power transmission line that is intended to bring power from Google, Inc.- backed offshore wind farms in the Northeast...
Jack Serle writes at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism: Two suspected US drone strikes have killed up to 12 civilians in the south of Yemen. Reports vary...
We rightly ask more questions these days about where our food comes from, what it contains and how it has been farmed. But new...
Lord Heseltine thunders at the FT today for an “extremely misleading” report that the Regional Growth Fund will create just 41,000 jobs, costing up to £200,000 to create...
I'll be speaking on the Arab revolutions, and their global significance, at an event hosted by Newcastle Counterfire called Defeating the 1% - a short course in rebellion....
Speakers include Hugh Grant, Tom Watson, Mary-Ellen Field, Jaqui Hames, Michelle Stanistreet (NUJ), Richard Peppiatt (ex Daily Star hack), Peter Bottomley MP plus a cross-section of...
While the unemployment figures make the headlines with depressing regularity, what is less well reported is the level of underemployment. TUC analysis out today shows that the number of...
TUC analysis published today using official figures, shows that the number of men doing part-time jobs because they can’t find...
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