The Russian Revolution: An Essential Condition of Success
August 5, 2012 9:20 pm Leave your thoughts
Mass Support + Iron Party = Socialist Revolution? Thomas Riggins analyses chapter two of Lenin's Left Wing Communism: an Infantile Disorder
Dance With the One Who Brung You
August 5, 2012 7:32 pm Leave your thoughts
Protecting the environment, like protecting the welfare of a nation's poorest and weakest people, requires a sweeping reform of political funding, on both sides of the Atlantic, writes George Monbiot.
Independence In The Pocket Of The US: “Mera Pyara Bharat” (“I Love My India?”)
August 3, 2012 5:49 pm Leave your thoughts
With a population of 1.2bn people, many believe that India is the arena where the future direction of humanity is being played out. However, the future of humanity may not be determined in India, but by events in a much smaller country - Syria, writes Colin Todhunter.
Nothing ‘Accidental’ in Mali – More Misery Awaits
August 2, 2012 8:07 am Leave your thoughts
Northern Mali promises to be the graveyard of scores of innocent people if African countries don't collectively challenge Western influence in the region, writes Ramzy Baroud.
Spain’s other valley of the fallen
August 2, 2012 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
David Eade discusses Spain's 'Valley of the Fallen' where to this day the bones of those who perished under the Nationalist onslaught in the Civil War still lie on the ground
Beer, Vomit And Lipstick: Revolting Acts In An Age Of Crisis
August 1, 2012 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
'Freedom' within the confines of what increasingly resembles an open prison isn't much to celebrate. The actual reality in Britain is economic meltdown and social crisis, writes Colin Todhunter
Scorched Earth Economics
August 1, 2012 12:00 am Leave your thoughts The model is dead; long live the model. Austerity programmes are extending the crises they were meant to solve, yet governments refuse to abandon them and the UK provides a powerful example, writes George Monbiot.
The Russian Revolution and its relevance today
July 31, 2012 3:01 am Leave your thoughts
In 1920 Lenin expressed his views on the international significance of the Russian Revolution. A lot of water has gone under the bridge in the last 92 years. Thomas Riggins asks are any of Lenin's views on this issue relevant today?
Shadow of London “Orbit” in Bosnia: Steel, Blood, and the Suppression of Memory
July 29, 2012 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
As ArcelorMittal, the world's largest steel company, invests 19.2 million pounds of steel to construct a monument marking London's Olympic Games, a disturbing story is emerging about the refusal to memorialise a former concentration camp in Bosnia it owns today
Tribunals, tigers and dogs
July 29, 2012 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Felix McHugh, author of the book Damned Scroungers, is back with more stories about his daily struggle to ensure disability claimants receive the money to which they are rightly entitled