The wrongly convicted activist John Jordan claims the Met helped plan serious civil disorder. An independent public inquiry is now vital, writes George Monbiot.
The moment General Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi and his forces removed Morsi from the Egyptian Presidency, I said that he was doing precisely what President Gamal Abdel Nasser did back in 1952
Part 7 of Eric Toussaint series, Banks versus the People: the Underside of a Rigged Game
Before President Obama even began the State of the Union address, two people I knew in the audience, from two defining points in my life
Dina Dinur, the wife of the Holocaust-writer K. Zetnik, called to invite me to meet Pete Seeger
It is not easy for any of us to get our heads around the complexities of modern economics. Many capitalists themselves and certainly most politicians no longer understand how the system really works
Andrew Balcerzak tells the story of a daring Polish army officer who entered Auschwitz on a mission to reveal the horrors of the Nazi genocide
Welfare payments, health care for the poor, and benefits for the elderly and disabled have been slashed. State workers have been downsized
Following the 90th anniversary of Lenin's death, Rob Sewell reviews his legacy
Thomas Riggins explains how, according to Lenin, the State is a product of the irreconcilability of class antagonisms