London Progressive Journal Issue 40

Cuba's Healthcare Policy Shows the True Meaning of Humanitarianism and Internationalism

‘At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.’ These words were written by Argentine doctor and revolutionary Che Guevara, back in 1965.

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After the Crash of 2008, Who Owns the Progressive Future?

Our economy is plummeting into the unknown. We go about our daily business as yet untouched by the disasters on the economic front. This is the phoney crash. We don't know how far we are going to fall nor what kind of pain we'll feel when we hit the bottom. Doubt and uncertainty grip us. So wh...

Millions Spent on Hirst's Vacuous Artworks Reflect The Decadence of 21st Century Capitalism

When Karl Marx coined his famous apocalyptic vision, 'all that is solid melts into air', it seems that he drastically underestimated the potency of Damien Hirst's preserving formaldehyde. In the same momentous week that free market capitalism drove itself spectacularly into the arms of the dum...

£50bn Bail-out Will Not Stop the Rot

In the early hours of Wednesday morning, the government and the financial authorities have finally agreed an ambitious plan to save the banks. They present the £50bn bail-out as decisive action to stop the rot. In fact their hands were forced, and there’s no sign that it will stem the panic on...

Review: The Façade of Arms Control, by Anna Stavrianakis

The UK is one of the world’s most largest arms exporters. It manages to do this under the cover of a licensing system that fails to restrict arms exports, providing only the most superficial transparency while obscuring deep ties between the government and arms exporters.

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Colombia: Displacement, Disappearances and Extrajudicial Executions Increase Under Uribe

While many supporters of Colombia’s President Alvaro Uribe and proponents of free trade agreements between Colombia and the governments of the United States and Canada repeatedly point to a recent decline in killings and kidnappings to support their causes, they conveniently ignore startling i...