Time for our unions to come to Spain’s aid
November 1, 2012 11:53 pm Leave your thoughts
David Eade calls for a renewal of international solidarity to help Spain's embattled workers
Review – Health Care Reform and Globalisation: The US, China and Europe in Comparative Perspective
October 31, 2012 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
David Lane reviews a book which illustrates the global nature of developments in healthcare: Health Care Reform and Globalisation: The US, China and Europe in Comparative Perspective
Troubled Children Adopted by Homo/Heterosexual Parents Flourish Equally Well
October 29, 2012 4:54 pm Leave your thoughts
Anyone concerned about the anti-gay agenda of the radical right in the US will find scores of websites dedicated to the proposition that gay couples should not be allowed to adopt children, writes Thomas Riggins.
Cameron’s Contagion
October 29, 2012 8:13 am Leave your thoughts
There couldn't be a clearer case of shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted. For the past three years there have been clear and unequivocal warnings that ash die-back could come to Britain, writes George Monbiot.
Review: The Master
October 28, 2012 6:37 am Leave your thoughts
OK, I saw "The Master." Now I know what the fuss is about. I don't pretend to know the film's "message" but I walked out afterward seeing/feeling the world from its point of view, writes Jean Claude van Italie.
Lenin on Anarchism and Opportunism: Chapter Four of ‘Left Wing’ Communism: An Infantile Disorder
October 27, 2012 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Thomas Riggins gives an analysis of Chapter Four of Lenin's 'Left Wing' Communism: an Infantile Disorder and describes the Bolsheviks' struggle against both 'opportunism' and 'petty-bourgeois revolulutionism'
Turkish PM Erdogan Must Respond to the Demands of the Kurdish Hunger Strikers
October 27, 2012 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Hundreds of Kurdish prisoners are currently taking part in a hunger strike which they have declared will be indefinite, David Morgan reports
Making the world a more dangerous place – the eager role of Julia Gillard
October 25, 2012 2:40 pm Leave your thoughts
Julia Gillard has returned Australia to its historic relationship with Washington, similar to that of an eastern European satellite with Moscow, writes John Pilger.
Ash Cloud
October 24, 2012 10:20 am Leave your thoughts There was a time when conservatism meant what the word suggests. It was an attempt to keep things as they are: to arrest economic and social change, to defend the position of the dominant class. Today conservatism has become a nihilistic festival of destruction, writes George Monbiot.
Australia’s Julia Gillard is no feminist hero
October 23, 2012 1:50 pm Leave your thoughts
The Guardian's description of Australia's opposition leader Tony Abbott as "neanderthal" is not unreasonable. Misogyny is an Australian blight and a craven reality in political life. But for so many commentators around the world to describe Julia Gillard's attack on Abbott as a "turning point for Australian women" is absurd, writes John Pilger.