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  1. 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...

  2. 17 May

    Media reform rally tonight

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

  3. 11 May

    Rebel Music #11 Bruce Springsteen

    Alex: Malte Ringer on the great chronicler of the struggles of blue collar America - Bruce...

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Feature Articles...

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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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    Do We Need a New, Anticapitalist Alternative?

    by Simon Hardy, Ed Lewis

    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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Elsewhere on the web...

  1. 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...

  2. 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....

  3. ‘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...

  4. Imagine a Stadium

    by Michael Albert | 18 May 2012

    Imagine we were to assemble in one massive stadium everyone who favors changing societies to attain political, economic, and social justice...

New Left Blogosphere...

  1. Economic inequality and social justice – lessons from Northern Europe

    by ToUChstone blog

    Judy McKnight, former General Secretary of NAPO and Chair of the TUC Women’s Committee, is now a TUC nominee on the European Union’s Economic and Social...

  2. Egypt between the Left, Muslim Fundamentalism, and the Old Regime

    by Informed Comment

    The campaigns of the candidates for president of Egypt drew to a close at midnight on Sunday, in preparation for voting on Wednesday and Thursday. On Sunday,...

  3. The Great Fracking Catastrophe in Rural America (Cantarow)

    by Informed Comment

    Ellen Cantarow writes at Tomdispatch.com If the world can be seen in a grain of sand, watch out.  As Wisconsinites are learning, there’s money (and misery) in sand — and...

  4. 'Bodies in space' - comments on social media and political mobilisation

    by luna17

    There's a very thought-provoking interview with Mark Fisher over at New Left Project, which covers a range of issues. This is an extract which I think is worth...

  1. Congress Wants the Department of Defense to Propagandize Americans

    by Informed Comment

    Two congressmen are attempting to insert a provision in the National Defense Authorization act that would allow the Department of Defense to subject the US...

  2. “A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market…” (JFK Poster)

    by Informed Comment

  3. G8: Facing both ways means facing the wrong way

    by ToUChstone blog

    The G8 summit in Camp David is over, and the statement agreed on the global economy is one of the most two-faced compromises imaginable. Yet again, world leaders have shown a...

  4. Aleppo Joins the Syrian Revolution: Are al-Assad’s Days Numbered?

    by Informed Comment

    The largest demonstrations held in Syria’s second city, Aleppo, since the beginning over a year ago of the revolutionary movement in that country, were held on...

  1. Frantic Civilian Tweets Map Out US Drone Strikes in Yemen (Woods and Serle)

    by Informed Comment

    Chris Woods and Jack Serle write at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism Though the hour was late, Yemen’s social media was still very much awake. A US...

  2. The Radical Alternative to Austerity

    by Though Coward Flinch

    John McDonnell MP has asked TCF to publish this statement.  We’re happy to oblige.  John says of the statement: It is not meant as a definitive statement but at least a broad depiction...

  3. It’s just business. Is that the extent of our foreign policy?

    by ToUChstone blog

    Foreign Secretary William Hague spoke to the CBI on Thursday, and he devoted most of his speech to what the FCO, under his leadership, was doing for British business....

  4. Who gets to see the Torch? Who gets to see the Games?

    by Red Pepper

    Beginning its long route around Britain the Torch Relay is one of the few examples of decentralisation and free to watch events that could have transformed the 2012 Olympics into...

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