A Capitalist Command Economy
March 11, 2013 8:42 am Leave your thoughts
Forcing schools into the hands of unelected oligarchs is the latest contradiction of everything the market fetishists claim to stand for, writes George Monbiot.
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“Ich bin ein Bil’iner!”
March 11, 2013 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
This does not happen every day: a Minister of Culture publicly rejoices because a film from her country has NOT been awarded an Oscar. And not just one film, but two.
Reading Lenin: Materialism and Empiro-criticism
March 9, 2013 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Following his excellent analysis of Left Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder, Thomas Riggins prepares to guide us through another of Lenin's major works
Spain is the Most Corrupt Nation in the EU
March 6, 2013 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
LPJ Iberian correspondent, David Eade, shows how the Spanish people have lost faith in their politicians and national institutions
John Lewis Cleaners to Strike for the Living Wage
March 4, 2013 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Cleaners at the John Lewis Partnership are to ballot for strike action at the flagship Oxford Street store. This is the first step in the revived campaign to win the Living Wage for all cleaners employed by John Lewis
Federal IDs for All US Workers: A Trial Balloon?
March 3, 2013 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
According to an article in last Thursday's Wall Street Journal, the Senate is considering a bipartisan plan to require all working people in the US to carry a biometric ID card. Thomas Riggins reports
After Eastleigh
March 1, 2013 8:59 pm Leave your thoughts
Labour's disastrous showing at Eastleigh is a self-inflicted wound but it still needs a friendly critic and a critical friend, writes David Lindsay.