2017-07-03 23:15
Substandard, mediocre, low-grade people people pointing the finger and showing contempt to a family in need of help. (Painting by Henry Tonks)
Poor:
Of a low or inferior… Read More
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2017-07-03 23:00
Supporters of Elor Azaria, charged with manslaughter after he shot a wounded Palestinian alleged attacker as he lay on the ground in Hebron in 2016
Zena al-Tahhan talks to Sahar Vardi an Isr… Read More
2017-07-03 12:28
2017-07-02 23:30
The French online newspaper Libération Reported:
Hamon leaves party, not socialism and socialists by By Rachid Laïrec.
Benoît Hamon, this year’s &nb… Read More
2017-07-02 23:15
Below John Harris looks at the onward march of post-Elvis pop culture, and the way it now sits at the heart of a majority of people’s lives.
This was also true of young people… Read More
2017-07-02 23:05
As the annual cycling spectacle of the Tour De France begins Mark Perryman argues the case for two wheels good.
Who would have guessed it. Karl Marx was clearly a bike mechan… Read More
2017-07-02 23:00
Al-Jazeera has raised political awareness across the Middle East by Hugh Miles
A bold and controversial experiment in Middle Eastern media and politics may be abruptly brought… Read More
2017-07-01 11:40
Simone Veil revisits that dreadful place
Simone Veil was the first female leader of the European Parliament and the recipient of France’s highest distinctions, including a seat among t… Read More
2017-06-30 23:15
Martin Moore-Bick, who drew the short straw and will lead the Grenfell Tower fire public inquiry
A retired judge who housing activists accuse of supporting “social cleansing” has… Read More
2017-06-29 23:10
Below Emily Bell looks at the media coverage, or lack of it in the months leading up to the Grenfell Tower fire and poses the question did the local media fail the very people it claims… Read More
2017-06-29 23:05
Jeremy Corbyn's amendment on Wednesday to the Tories' Queen's Speech was both intelligent and right by Comrade W of SKWAWKBOX.
By proposing the lifting of the cap on the pay of public… Read More
2017-06-29 23:00
“That is what Canadians will be celebrating today, the theft of 99.8% of our land, leaving us on reserves that make up only 0.2% of the territories given us by the Creator.” --A… Read More
2017-06-29 10:09
Krishnan Guru-Murthy challenges Tory Minister Brandon Lewes MP to take some responsibility for what happened at Grenfell Tower, he's currently immigration minister and before that the… Read More
2017-06-28 23:15
A shocking photo of exposed gas pipes serving flats in Grenfell Tower after the refurbishment by Kensington and Chelsea council was completed.
The way the authorities have dealt with the aft… Read More
2017-06-28 23:05
It has been an incredible few weeks for Jeremy Corbyn. Widely written-off by the political commentariat as a no-hoper when Theresa May called the snap election, he is now a prime minister… Read More
2017-06-28 23:00
A march of SA trade unionists.
South Africa’s looming winter of discontent by Terry Bell
The kleptocratic faction in the South African government, together with their cronies, have sq… Read More
2017-06-27 23:20
World by Storm poses an interesting question.
HMS Queen Elizabeth sets sail - a massive ship. There’s going to be another - the Prince of Wales. And perhaps a pointless one, a… Read More
2017-06-27 23:15
Theresa May turns her back on training new nurses and midwifesThe British prime minister Theresa May seemed to have little problem finding one billion pounds when it came to keeping herself… Read More
2017-06-27 23:05
2017-06-27 11:11
Orange Order Parade in Scotland.
Gaslighting Scotland by Mike Small.
It’s the marching season in Belfast and Glasgow. The ethno-religious superiority of the Protestants will be o… Read More
2017-06-26 23:15
Anthony McIntyre of the Pensive Quill writes on the phenomenon of Christian arrogance as evidenced in one response to the death of Dr Ann Louise Gilligan.
When people take to telling me t… Read More
2017-06-26 23:10
Below Eveline Lubbers, of the Undercover Research Group looks at the undercover police officer Rod Richardson, who infiltrated and acted as a provocateur in environmental and animals rights… Read More
2017-06-26 23:00
Miroslava Rosales’s poems tear through the postmodern plasticity of the violent neoliberal order, the platinum and plastic necropolis imposed upon Latin American countries by local r… Read More
2017-06-26 17:54
Rock Feilding-Mellen.
Paul Hutcheon investigations editor on the the Scottish paper the Sunday Herald has an interesting tale about the deputy leader of Kensington and Chelsea council… Read More
2017-06-25 23:15
Almost weekly lately the news from Turkey is dispiriting as the new sultan Recep Tayyip Erdoğan attempts to turn one of the very few secular states in the Islamic world into a poor im… Read More
2017-06-25 23:10
Bishopsgate after the Provos exploded a bomb in the heart of the City of London.
Paul Rogers on how The west's security elite might learn from the end of Northern Ireland's conflict. … Read More
2017-06-25 23:00
Steve Hilditch on how hard he has found it to comment on the Grenfell Tower disaster.
Words cannot convey the horror of it, and everything I tried to write felt hopelessly inad… Read More
2017-06-24 23:00
The United Nation’s drugs watchdog reported the world’s illicit drug economy is “thriving” owing to large increases in the production of heroin and cocaine and a w… Read More
2017-06-24 09:02
Another Angry Voice reports the centre-right faction of the Labour Party are going to run out of money.
The fact that David Sainsbury was even allowed to continue as a member of th… Read More
2017-06-23 23:00
The Palestinian struggle needs to refocus, writes Amin Abbas.
In recent times, Palestinians have been polarised by an unexpected question. Which football club is more supportive of th… Read More
2017-06-23 11:01
Robin Murray speaking at the Fair Trade Alliance Kerala seed festival 2015: Photograph by Frances Murray.
Robin Murray, who has died aged 76, advocated and implemented new forms of social an… Read More
2017-06-22 23:30
Tim Young.
After the general election (GE) results were announced those Labour MPs who have been disrupting the party's unity since Jeremy Corbyn became leader were forced to eat a certain a… Read More
2017-06-22 23:15
Nikki Haley, Washington's envoy to the United Nations.
UN Last Hurdle before Israel Can Rid Itself of the Palestinians by Jonathan Cook.
Israeli and US officials are in the process of jointl… Read More
2017-06-22 23:00
Two key reasons for Corbyn’s stunning advance by Tom O’Leary
Under Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership the Labour Party has staged a stunning revival, prevented There… Read More
2017-06-22 11:20
The late Ian Paisley founder of DUP announcing his Smash Sinn Fein Campaign
One interesting aspect of the negotiations this last week has been the implication of a basic fact. That fact is a… Read More
2017-06-22 06:22
2017-06-21 23:00
This article first appeared on another angry voice
Theresa May's first, and almost certainly last, Queen's speech was every bit the shambles you would expect from a directionle… Read More
2017-06-21 08:45
Michael Eaude looks back at the life of Juan Goytisolo one of Europe’s most erudite and brilliant novelists.
Scourge of fascism, racism, sexism and Spanish obscurant… Read More
2017-06-20 23:15
"Tottenham Labour MP David Lammy has sensibly called for all the documents relating to the Grenfell Tower refurbishment to be seized by the Police to stop potential evidence being destroyed… Read More
2017-06-20 23:00
In the long and tangled history of relations between Britain and Ireland, it has generally been the Irish who seemed troubled. British identity was fixed, solid and self-confident. Britai… Read More
2017-06-20 17:32
Phil Burton-Cartledge writes for the first time for years Labour has the strength, ambition, motivation, and capacity to do what needs to be done
The unexpected happened, so whe… Read More
2017-06-20 16:43
CARRY ON CAMPAIGNING from wellredfilms on Vimeo Read More
2017-06-19 23:10
Uri Avnery was the first Israeli politician to have the guts, insight and wisdom to meet Yasser Arafat
Uri Avnery looks at the recent political upheavals taking place in Europe and the USA… Read More
2017-06-19 23:05
Aisha Maniar who blogs at 'one small window' looks at the trials and tribulations asylum applicants face in the UK when claiming refugee status.
The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNH… Read More
2017-06-19 23:00
Cartoon by Andy Davey whose work can be seen here
Phillip Inman in the article below points out Tory austerity measures have left productivity and prosperity in tatters while plunging ordina… Read More
2017-06-19 17:24
2017-06-19 17:04
French Legislative Elections: A Victory for Social Liberalism against Populism?
Seats in the Assemblée Nationale.
Nuances de candidatsNombre de siègesExtrême g… Read More
2017-06-19 06:06
Unlike this young chap most of the young people I spoke to were not LP members. Yet.
I spent part of last Friday talking to young adults in Gravesham and Thurrock. It was far from a scientif… Read More
2017-06-18 23:15
The Uri Avnery Column below discusses Diana Buttu's view that the Palestinian Authority should be disbanded as it is nothing more than a subcontractor for Israeli oppression. Thanks to th… Read More
2017-06-18 09:05
With counterintuitive brilliance, the Conservatives have assembled a cabinet full of the same ashen-faced misfits voters already rejected. They have wrecked a failing pub in an insurance… Read More
2017-06-17 16:05
Is former Mayor of London Johnson one of the guilty politicians? Statement from the London Hazards Centre and a timeline from Phil Lewis a campaigner at London Hazards Centre.
Following… Read More
2017-06-17 07:49
The day before she died, Khadija Saye had met an influential gallery director who was blown away by the young artist’s work and wanted to meet her. After years of striving to create… Read More
2017-06-16 13:09
Unlike the Prime Minister Mrs May, Britain’s Queen meets members of the community affected by the fire at Grenfell Tower.I have no idea whether it's true, but according to SKWAWK BOX… Read More
2017-06-16 07:08
Jeremy Corbyn comforted a local resident at St Clement's Church near the scene of the fire.
Mrs May visited the scene but failed to talk to any survivors and families Read More
2017-06-15 23:30
The former tenants of Grenfell Tower are now homeless, so far they have been treated appallingly by the Tory government. These folk have lost all their personal possessions, clothing and… Read More
2017-06-15 23:20
A government in waiting by Mike Phipps.
What a change to the political landscape! Th… Read More
2017-06-15 23:10
Portugal’s Example: What Happened After It Decriminalized All Drugs by Samuel Oakford
Over Sixteen years ago, Portugal took a leap and decriminalized the possession of all drugs &md……Read More
2017-06-15 23:00
2017-06-14 23:00
2017-06-13 23:30
After spending two years trashing the possibility that Corbyn could win elections, The Guardian's coverage must be judged harshly. An apology is due by David Hearst
My former colleagues o… Read More
2017-06-13 23:15
Steve Hilditch with a piece he wrote for the Guardian Housing Network on Monday.
A new Housing Minister is yet to be appointed and we have to wait and see if the negotiations betwee… Read More
2017-06-13 23:00
Corbyn and his young supporters campaign in 2017 GE.
This article by Mark Seddon first appeared in the Boston Globe in October 2016, reflecting Jeremy’s second leadership victory. We a… Read More
2017-06-13 08:58
Owen Smith who set back the Labour cause by forcing a 2nd unnecessary leadership election makes no apology for his behavior, his own words are gives a job.
In the piece below Seema Chandwa… Read More
2017-06-13 08:18
Antonio Gramsci, the Italian communist leader who died in a fascist jail in 1937.
Paul Mason looks out why the accepted common sense of the last 30 years is over.
To stop Jeremy Corbyn, th… Read More
2017-06-12 23:15
DUP voters cheer an Orange Order march as its members parade through Carrickfergus at the weekend
With the Tory minority Government led by Theresa May entering into what is a coalition in al… Read More
2017-06-11 23:15
British PM begs leader of DUP to allow her to form a government
Anthony McIntyre with his thoughts on the Theresa May election debacle.
"It is permitted in time of grave danger to walk wit… Read More
2017-06-11 23:00
A Cork republican who fought fascism by Graham Harrington
Kevin Neville was born in Cork in 1921 into a family of Fenian stock that played an active role in the Black-and-Tan War… Read More
2017-06-11 12:40
ANC leader Oliver Tambo's house in Muswell Hill, London where he and his family spent many years in exile from the SA apartheid regime.
That a grey-bearded, bicycle riding socialist politici… Read More
2017-06-11 11:27
Stan Keable reports on a parallel campaign conducted by Momentum in Sheffield Hallam to defeat Nick Clegg.
One the greatest upsets of the election took place in Sheffield Hallam… Read More
2017-06-11 08:46
2017-06-10 14:31
A disturbing post from SKWAWKBOX which has turned into one of the best Corbyn Labour blogs, not sure if the story is fact but Steven Walker has been well informed throughout the electi… Read More
2017-06-10 13:20
Celisa Calacal of AlterNet looks at the British General Election and sees a striking global trend in the UK, US, France and Holland where young people are voting for progressive candidate… Read More
2017-06-09 16:31
One Picture Worth Ten Thousand Words.
Ed Moloney the US based journalist, writer and blogger wrote this today and I endorse his sentiments totally:
"O joy! Oh bliss! It’s not just t… Read More
2017-06-09 10:50
An Alevi café and meeting place in Istanbul.
Pinar Tremblay with an opinion piece about Turkey's Alevi community.
T… Read More
2017-06-09 10:25
UK election: British Capital in Disarray by Michael Roberts
The UK election result is a personal disaster for the Conservative leader There… Read More
2017-06-08 08:57
Disabled People Against The Cuts (DPAC) posted this earlier today.
This week we lost the beautiful, talented and ever brilliant Sophie Partridge, aka Ruby Pixie on twitter. Words… Read More
2017-06-07 23:00
Vote Corbyn Labour on June 8.
In an excellent Guardian article by Gary Younge he highlights how the political elites have failed to recognise the nation has changed dramatically since the ec… Read More
2017-06-07 17:24
There have been some disgraceful attacks on Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn today by billionaire-owned media – desperate Canute-like attempts to stem what they must fear is a tsunami of… Read More
2017-06-07 07:39
2017-06-06 23:30
Tony Benn in Parliament warning MPs of the hundreds of innocent people that would be killed if they vote to bomb Iraq.
Yet few of them learned a damn thing from Tony's wise words and we l… Read More
2017-06-06 23:15
Newspeak House.
Democracy? There’s an app for that, the tech upstarts trying to ‘hack’ British politics By Zoe Williams
There’s an infuriating gap in the coverage of… Read More
2017-06-06 17:17
The Steve Hilditch of the housing blog Red Brick looks at the LP housing manifesto and likes what he sees.
There may be good reasons - in particular murder and mayhem on our streets - but… Read More
2017-06-05 23:30
Rojda Felat in March this year uses a walkie-talkie to talk to her troops near the Tabqa Dam, west of Raqqa, Syria
Since the beginning of the Syrian revolution in March 2011, when the… Read More
2017-06-05 23:10
A shocking picture of the modern world of work in the UK by Sarah Butler
Up to 10 million Britons or nearly a third of the UK workforce do not have secure employment… Read More
2017-06-05 23:00
Few aspects of our economy are as poorly understood among politicians and the general public as our monetary system. This becomes particularly obvious – and dangero… Read More
2017-06-05 16:14
Theresa May said that we should judge the Tory government on their record, so here's a list of some of the things that any reasonably well informed citizen should know about the Tory… Read More
2017-06-04 23:20
Former Metropolitan Police Senior Investigating Officer Peter Kirkham states categorically that Theresa May’s claims there are more police and more armed police on the streets than… Read More
2017-06-04 23:10
After the 1916 Dublin Easter Rising which eventually led to a 26 county democratic Irish State, and shortly before one of the signatories to the proclamation James Connolly* was executed by… Read More
2017-06-04 23:00
Sir John Mitting has been appointed to take over as chair of the public inquiry into undercover policing.
It comes three months after the current Chair, Lord Pitchford, announc… Read More
2017-06-03 12:12
Russell in one of his less eccentric photo's
Below Russell Brand sets out why he will be voting for Labour and Jeremy Corbyn as PM.
You know I never actually said “don’t vo… Read More
2017-06-03 11:44
Below is a piece about yesterday's BBC Question Time in which Jeremy Corbyn and Theresa May answered questions separately from a selected audience. It was first posted on Sráid Marx a… Read More
2017-06-02 08:42
This is a story from Evolve Politics which is beginning to gain traction in the mainstream media.
Recent years have seen increasing speculation that the Tories aim to privatise healthcare… Read More
2017-06-01 23:05
Karl Eliasberg conducting Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony in Leningrad on 9 August 1942
The Siege of Leningrad, Shostakovich, and the airbrushing of history by Jenny Farrell.
The cold war ag… Read More
2017-06-01 10:17
A mural in Tripoli paying tribute to fighters from Manchester who joined the 17 February Martyrs' Brigade during Libya's revolution against Gaddafi 'Sorted' by MI5: How UK government se… Read More
2017-06-01 10:12
Emir Abdelkader.
For the true meaning of Islam look to the past by Robert Fisk.
After the Manchester massacre… yes, and after Nice and Paris, Mosul and Abu Ghraib and 7/7 and the Had… Read More
2017-05-14 23:00
Nakba Commemoration in the Balfour Declaration Centenary Year: It’s time to go home! It’s time to make it right for Palestine. The Right of Return
I Come from ThereI come fr… Read More
2017-05-12 11:36
The United Arab Shipping Company’s Barzan one of largest containers ship docked at DP World London Gateway and unloaded more than 4,000 containers.
Thurrock is already one of the most… Read More
2017-05-11 23:10
Jonathan Freedland.
The Guardian’s Jonathan Freedland's wretched attempt to write Jeremy Corbyn’s obituary by David Cromwell
In bygone years, defenders of the Guardian's suppo… Read More
2017-05-11 23:00
Tony Blair left the LP a putrid legacy. &nbs&helli…Read More
2017-05-11 09:59
This is our opportunity, with the announcement of major policy after major policy from Labour, we have at last the chance of a majority progressive society, which does a total U-turn on a… Read More
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