London Progressive Journal

Galant’s Gallant Act

January 23, 2015 11:23 pm Leave your thoughts

There used to be a joke about a sadist and a masochist

Uday Al-Zaidy – Another Life in the Balance in “The New Iraq”

January 21, 2015 12:58 am Leave your thoughts

Uday Al-Zaidi symbolizes all condemned to the nightmare of Iraq's jails secret and overt in the "New Iraq."

To pay or not to pay?

January 21, 2015 12:48 am Leave your thoughts

Joseph Stiglitz shows that a suspension of debt repayments can be beneficial for a country and its people

The TTIP trade deal will throw equality before the law on the corporate bonfire

January 20, 2015 8:14 am Leave your thoughts

The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership is a reckless destruction of democratic principles. But we can beat it, writes George Monbiot.

The role of the state in the space race

January 20, 2015 12:00 am Leave your thoughts

In April 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space, when Vostok 1 made a successful orbit of the Earth.

Je suis un Ãªtre humain

January 17, 2015 2:26 pm Leave your thoughts

For the first time in a long lifetime, the events in Paris have left me cold, shocked, speechless and terrified. Cold because of its inevitable cruelty. Shocked because of the awful response from a hypocritical world. Speechless because there can be nothing I could possibly say to explain the inexplicable - to defend the indefensible. And terrified because I have brown skin, a beard and I am a Muslim Palestinian

The War on Terror and the Terror of War

January 16, 2015 11:46 pm Leave your thoughts

The vicious cycle of state and individual terror continues unabated. Marxists have long explained that imperialism and Islamic fundamentalism are two aspects of the same reactionary phenomenon-the decay and decline of capitalism-which threatens to take the whole of humanity down with it.