Barbican Centre Cleaners in Historic Strike for the Living Wage
March 18, 2013 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Election Day for the Corporation of London will see a strike of cleaners at the Barbican Centre
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Reading Lenin: Materialism and Empiro-criticism
March 18, 2013 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Part 2 of Thomas Riggins' analysis of Lenin's Materialism and Empiro-criticism
Marching with the Neo-Nazis
March 17, 2013 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
On Saturday I attended the MSZP socialist party rally in Budapest. It was held at the national stadium dedicated to Ferenc Puskás, writes David Eade
The choice to be British
March 15, 2013 6:42 am Leave your thoughts
Congratulations to the British Falkland Islanders, including the large Saint Helenian community there, some of whom are my relatives on my mother's side, writes David Lindsay after a referendum that was controversial in some parts of the world.
The Battle to Save Democracy
March 15, 2013 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Last week I spent several days in Budapest at a conference organised by the Party of European Socialists (PES), David Eade reports
Smart Phones, Dumb Companies
March 14, 2013 9:47 am Leave your thoughts
Phone companies do too little to ensure the minerals they use are conflict-free. Here's what you can do to hold them to account, says George Monbiot.
Money for the People: Grillo’s Populist Plan for Italy
March 14, 2013 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Comedian Beppe Grillo was surprised himself when his Five Star Movement got 8.7 million votes in the Italian general election of February 24-25th
Labour’s chance. Will they take it?
March 13, 2013 5:59 am Leave your thoughts
Jim Murphy may speak truer than he knows. Labour is on course for a majority of over 80, with UKIP quite capable of handing scores of Conservative seats to the Lib Dems, writes David Lindsay.
The Economy: Happy Days Are Here Again! For Whom?
March 13, 2013 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Last week the stock market made a great leap forward. "Dow Leaps to Record" the Wall Street Journal blazoned on its front page. Thomas Riggins shows that the resurrection and coming again of the Dow is only one expression of the economy
Iraqi Freedom Ten Years after Liberation
March 13, 2013 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Next week, on Tuesday 19 March, many of us will remember how, precisely
ten years ago, in another and dreamlike existence, we incredulously
watched the beginning of the invasion of Iraq. Faisl Mikdadi shares some personal reflection