The Mockery of Banking Discipline
February 2, 2014 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Part 7 of Eric Toussaint series, Banks versus the People: the Underside of a Rigged Game
An Iraq war veteran’s reflection
February 1, 2014 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
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
Return, Return oh Shulamit
February 1, 2014 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Dina Dinur, the wife of the Holocaust-writer K. Zetnik, called to invite me to meet Pete Seeger
An economy ruled by the mob
January 29, 2014 12:00 am Leave your thoughts 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
The Auschwitz Volunteer
January 26, 2014 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
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
From Austerity to Prosperity: Why I Am Running for California Treasurer
January 25, 2014 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Welfare payments, health care for the poor, and benefits for the elderly and disabled have been slashed. State workers have been downsized
In Defence of Lenin
January 24, 2014 1:28 am Leave your thoughts
Following the 90th anniversary of Lenin's death, Rob Sewell reviews his legacy
State and Revolution: Chapter One: Class Society and the State
January 24, 2014 12:00 am Leave your thoughts Thomas Riggins explains how, according to Lenin, the State is a product of the irreconcilability of class antagonisms
Why I’ll be rewarding the latest attempt to make a citizen’s arrest on Tony Blair
January 22, 2014 8:46 am Leave your thoughts
London barman Twiggy Garcia could be in line for a reward from George Monbiot's Arrest Blair website after his crack at bringing the former prime minister to justice for alleged war crimes.
Fighting FGM, Human Trafficking in Manchester, UK
January 20, 2014 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
On 18/1/2014, around two hundred people gathered in Manchester for a fundraising benefit to aid the cause of teenage asylum seeker, Olayinka, who faces the risk of Female Genital Mutilation, if forcibly returned to Nigeria