2017-05-10 23:30
Win or loose after the general election there will be an attempt by the Blairites to remove Jeremy Corbyn from the leadership. Almost unbelievably this process has already started even t… Read More
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Political and societal blog, analysing the world from a left socialist, internationalist, and a working class perspective.
2017-05-10 23:20
Yazidis fleeing Sinjar, Iraq, in 2014.
How are Iraq's Yazidis faring amid Kurds' confrontations by Fehim Tastekin.
The Islamic State (IS) genocidal invasion in 2014 of the Yazi… Read More
2017-05-10 23:00
A corporation owned factory pig farm with a lake full of feces beside it.
By Amy Goodman and Denis Moyniha… Read More
2017-05-09 23:10
Trump hasn’t quite thought through his first foreign trip by Robert Fisk.
Not since Ibn Batuta, travelled the Middle E… Read More
2017-05-09 23:05
2017-05-09 23:00
The 2017 Local Election Results In The UK, A Victory For UKIP By Any Other Name by An Sionnach Fionn.
Just a few quick points on last week's local elections in the United Kingd… Read More
2017-05-09 23:00
People spied upon by Britain’s political secret police in Scotland are boycotting the forthcoming Scottish review of the issue, saying ‘it cannot be trusted’ and brand… Read More
2017-05-09 10:07
Emmanuel Macron and Neoliberalism by Phil Burton-Cart… Read More
2017-05-08 23:10
Anthony McIntyre blasphemes in support of Stephen Fry.
The biblical God is a genocidal old tyrant who should be mocked, ridiculed, cursed… Read More
2017-05-08 23:05
The story of the Grangemouth dispute of 2013 contains important lessons for the Labour Movement by Keven Crane
It is pretty unusual for a trade union to bring out a whole book about an ind… Read More
2017-05-08 23:00
George Orwell's ‘Homage to Catalonia’ did not grasp the wider context by Paul Preston
Unleashed on 17 July 1936 by a military coup against the democratically elected governme… Read More
2017-05-08 16:38
May Bulman reported this in the Independent.
Labour and Liberal Democrat activists have united with the Green Party in a groundbreaking alliance aimed at unseating Jeremy Hunt in the gene… Read More
2017-05-08 12:37
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism Reports:
Industrial pollution from Indian pharmaceutical companies making medicines for nearly all the world’s major drug companies is fuellin… Read More
2017-05-07 23:30
The commitment of women before, during and after the Easter Rising of 1916 helped to bring the Irish nation to support the independence movement. The widows of those executed at Kilmainham… Read More
Israeli Society Has Fallen Apart Into A Number Of Sub-societies, Which Have Less And Less In Common.
2017-05-07 23:10
Golda Meir lit a memorial torch on Mount Herzl, marking the transition from Remembrance Day to Independence Day… Read More
2017-05-07 23:00
Republicans' Vicious and Immoral Health Care Bill Is Just Part of a Sinister Long Game By Thom Hartmann
The Republicans are playing a longer game here, one based on a time-tested strategy f… Read More
2017-05-07 13:34
HSBC awarded a £214m loan to a highly indebted company, IPGL Ltd, chaired by Tory Party Treasurer & Chief Fundraiser, Michael Spencer.
IPGL and its struggling subsidiarie… Read More
2017-05-06 14:15
Mike Phipps extrapolates from the local election results across the UK
The headli… Read More
2017-05-06 11:57
We don't usually post articles from church of England vicars but I've made an exception for Giles Fraser, the parish priest at St Mary's, Newington, south London. He is spot on when he wr… Read More
2017-05-06 08:46
Terry Bell reports on what happened when trade unionists made it clear they didn't want President Jacob Zuma at their May Day rally.
The tumultuous events in Bloemfontein on May Day toget… Read More
2017-05-05 10:25
Macron is a Blairite to his core so ask yourself why would anyone support him, or indeed a Macron type organisation within the UK if they're sick of inequality, low wages and zero hours c… Read More
2017-05-04 23:10
Memoirs of an erratic Marxist by Michael Roberts
Yanis Varoufakis onc… Read More
2017-05-04 23:00
Ten years ago this week, a massive police operation codenamed Operation Achilles was launched at dawn against campaigners trying to close down Huntingdon Life Sciences, Europe’s l… Read More
2017-05-04 09:27
Some of the 26 church of England bishops who are automatically granted a seat in the UK's second parliamentary chamber.
One of the great tragedies about post 1921 Ireland is how far to often… Read More
2017-05-03 23:05
Dissolution disillusion by Steve Hilditch
In a splendid journalistic error*, the Times reported that Sir… Read More
2017-05-03 23:00
British polling booths haven't changed much in over a century
Why are British voters in the dark about this week’s elections? by Joe Mitchell
Pity the local elections, overs… Read More
2017-05-03 07:14
Above all, what Brecht sets out to show is that fascism is not an unstoppable force but a resistible extension of free-market capitalism.
… Read More
2017-05-02 23:30
The magnificent, mercurial, mysterious Bob Dylan brought his band to the London Palladium for another mesmerising performance. On the first of three nights in the venerable West End theat… Read More
2017-05-02 23:02
2017-05-02 23:00
British ruling class pays scant attention to the North by Tommy McKearney
Two months after an Assembly election, the North’s electorate i… Read More
2017-05-02 09:45
2017-05-01 23:20
Progress my arse!
Unity for the sake of unity is both unprincipled and dangerous by Terry Bell.
Yet this is a call being loudly trumpeted today in South Africa. It is al… Read More
2017-05-01 23:10
A protest held outside the Department of Health in Dublin last week against plans to grant ownership of the National Maternity Hospital to the Sisters of Charity religious order.
Last week t… Read More
2017-05-01 23:00
US military officials arrives by helicopter at the headquarters of the Kurdish fighters from the People's Protection Units (YPG) that was hit by Turkish airstrikes.
US-Turkey relations sin… Read More
2017-05-01 21:55
2017-05-01 10:13
Any child who grew up in the 1950s as I did, would have known the work of Leo Baxendale, although not his name, as for many kids getting a copy of the Beano was the highlight of their… Read More
2017-04-30 23:05
Statement issued by Katherine Maher, of the Wikimedia Foundation
On Saturday, April 29, we learned that the Turkish Internet Regulator (ICTA) implemented… Read More
2017-04-30 23:00
Despite almost no reaction from mainstream media support for more than 1500 Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike, which began on April 16, continues to grow across the Occupied Palestinian… Read More
2017-04-30 11:27
A deep sigh of relief, coming straight from the heart by Uri Avnery
When I was 10 years old, my family fled from Nazi Germany. We were fea… Read More
2017-04-30 10:44
Below Matt Zarb-Cousin a former spokesperson for the Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn is interviewed for Jacobin magazine by Max Shanly. It's a wide ranging interview about working with Co… Read More
2017-04-30 09:55
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2017-04-29 10:43
I don't know how many people died in road accidents in the United Kingdom in the same month as the Westminster killing. I surmise that the number was vastly larger. Yet people do not greatl… Read More
2017-04-29 10:20
Terry Eagleton
As a 24-year-old Cambridge academic, I was lucky enough to be involved in the writing of the May Day Manifesto of 1967. It was a genuinely collaborative project among a ran… Read More
2017-04-29 10:19
2017-04-27 23:15
If you want to understand how deeply British newspapers like the Guardian are embedded within the British ruling class you only have to look at the deceitful and craven manner that paper des… Read More
2017-04-27 23:10
The article below is Ireland centric but much the same could be written about the failure of the mainstream media and political establishments within the UK, USA or EU. It's about how… Read More
2017-04-27 23:00
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2017-04-26 23:30
Former Chancellor George Osborne is entertained as a special guest of Roman Abramovich.
After British HMRC officers raided West Ham and Newcastle football clubs, with Chelsea also in the fra… Read More
2017-04-26 23:30
El Mercurio coverage often praised the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet and denying human rights abuses such as forced disappearances
TeleSUR reports the Chilean media worked closel… Read More
2017-04-26 23:00
While the recent BBC’s Panorama Spy in the IRA documentary by John Ware outside of official circles, hardly caused a ripple here, it's become a major issue in Ireland. Understandabl… Read More
2017-04-26 09:42
Below is an Oxfam report issued yesterday which shows the perilous situation the people of Gaza are suffering under the yoke of the Israeli blockade.
Millions of liters of sewage are discha… Read More
2017-04-26 09:24
2017-04-25 23:10
Below is an edited version of an article by Adam Samuels which appeared in the Dorset Eye, a community news forum, the author writes in a personnel capacity and the views expressed are his… Read More
2017-04-25 23:00
Former Provisional IRA volunteers Colm Lynagh (left) and hunger striker Tommy McKearney in Monaghan Town.
Brexit will not lead to a return to bloodshed in Northern Ireland, says Provis… Read More
2017-04-24 23:25
Two frames from the start of the first of four If… strips by Steve Bell about the Labour party’s handling of Ken Livingstone. Illustration: Steve Bell
Anyone who has known Ken L… Read More
2017-04-24 23:20
Within the mainstream media Corbyn is portrayed as crazy and today's Dr Strangelove are the sensible guys.
Having shared a platform with Jeremy Corbyn several times, I have to admit I had do… Read More
2017-04-24 23:00
Special commemorative magazine which was launched on Friday 21st April in Wynn’s Hotel, Abbey Street, Dublin, by Bernadette McAliskey. Gernika 80 – Then & Now: the 80th anniv… Read More
2017-04-24 08:59
James Wright reports the Green Party has handed Labour an electoral gift, proving the party is dead serious about an alliance.
Caroline Lucas arrested at anti fracking demo
Ealing Gre… Read More
2017-04-23 23:30
I have always enjoyed Hanif Kureishi work and especially the films of his books like My Beautiful Laundrette, Sammy and Rosie Get Laid, and The Buddha of Suburbia. There are few better bet… Read More
2017-04-23 23:15
I have a confession to make: I like Marwan Barghouti by Uri Avnery.
I have visited him at his modest Ramallah home several times. During our conv… Read More
2017-04-23 23:00
The British media used this photo to imply May was walking in Wales over Easter when she had her Damascene conversion to hold a snap election, in fact the photo was taken in Switzerland in 2… Read More
2017-04-23 10:57
Image by @HonathanJunter
The Daily Mirror reported, Downing Street press secretary Lizzie Loudon, May's most senior spin doctor, quit unexpectedly on Friday - just days after May's communica… Read More
2017-04-23 09:38
Skwawkbox on a contradictory tale; the front pages of two of Sunday's newspapers tell a remarkable story. It's not the story either of them is trying to tell:
The picture is extremely mur… Read More
Book Review: Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign, By Jonathan Allen And Amie Parnes.
2017-04-21 23:30
Why Hillary Clinton Really Lost An insider book on Campaign 2016 reveals a paranoid Hillary Clinton who spied on staff emails after losing in 2008 and carried her political dysfunction into… Read More
2017-04-21 23:05
A mural in Cochabamba, Bolivia expressing solidarity with Venezuela's Bolivarian RevolutionTeleSur reported Bolivian President Evo Morales on Thursday slammed ongoing right-wing opposition p… Read More
2017-04-21 23:00
This is an interesting piece from the Belfast Telegraph, its about the brouhaha stirred up by the Panorama programe about Freddie Scappaticci, the British army's informer within th… Read More
2017-04-21 09:12
Socialist Prime Minister, António Costa
Portugal, like many countries, was hit hard by the European debt crisis of 2010. But after a period of economic turmoil, it now boasts a more s… Read More
2017-04-20 23:30
The aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson which the mainstream media reporting was off the cost of North Korea when it was really near Australia in the south Pacific.
The latest Media… Read More
2017-04-20 23:20
"Sinn Fein, he cautioned, would create divisions in both parts of the island and – OMG, hang on to your seats for this one – they actually would try to ‘build support Nort… Read More
2017-04-20 23:00
When Chinese revolutionary Zhou Enlai was asked about the impact of the French Revolution he replied "it's to early to say."
Much the same, only more so could have been said about his own… Read More
2017-04-20 13:25
Mrs May prefers a cosy chat with Tories.
Here in Thurrock we have become used to Tory politicians lying to us, during the 2015 general election campaign our Tory MP Jackie Doyle Price promis… Read More
2017-04-19 23:30
Women members of FARC-EP attend the National Conference
War and Peace… Read More
2017-04-19 23:25
2017-04-19 23:20
Scott Nelson on why his generation should vote Labour on June 8.
Since the Tories came into power in 2010, young people from poorer backgrounds across the country have been hit very hard… Read More
2017-04-19 23:05
Welfare Weekly reports Corbyn would fund £10-a-week rise by reversing inheritance tax cut.
Around 1 million carers would receive an extra £10 a week under plans for a signific… Read More
2017-04-18 23:15
"Israel has tried to brand us all as terrorists to legitimize its violations, including mass arbitrary arrests, torture, punitive measures and severe restrictions. As part of Israel’s… Read More
2017-04-18 23:10
Recep Erdoğan permanently closed a chapter of his country’s modern history by Steven A Cook.
In Jan. 20. 1921 the Turkish Grand National Assembly passed the Teşkilât… Read More
2017-04-18 23:00
A Blairites goes about his masters work.
Against Command and Control by Dave Poyser.
One way to get trusted is to tell the truth. Jeremy was ‘off message’ from the moment he was… Read More
2017-04-17 23:30
Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practise to deceive" – Walter Scott
For the first time in 50 years in 2015 I joined a political party, when I told my family and fri… Read More
2017-04-17 23:10
Colombian Peasants farmer collecting their crop.
Below Phillip Smith editor of the Drug War Chronicle points out Trump's new drug Tzar has a history of brutally punishing drug addicts and Ma… Read More
2017-04-17 23:00
The Logic of Leaks, reconsidered
What is it about leaks that makes them different from other news events? If the statements of governments and media organizations are anything to go by… Read More
2017-04-17 11:51
More here on Reloading Baldwin's nigger Read More
2017-04-16 23:30
Mark Kennedy after he became a private security consultant
The Irish edition of the Sunday Times revealed Martin Callinan, the former Garda (police) commissioner refused to deny he gave pe… Read More
2017-04-16 23:10
Kevin Crane argues US trade union organiser Jane McAlevey gives us an outspoken and compelling argument about how union organising needs to change.
Not many trade-union full-timers… Read More
2017-04-16 23:00
The miscarriages of justice that assailed Britain in the 1970s were underpinned by a right-wing narrative: dangerous Irish Catholics had travelled to Britain, where they attacked the Englis… Read More
2017-04-13 23:00
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2017-04-13 12:05
International law very tightly regulates the use of military force, and using violence to punish another country is simply not permitted under international law. Syria hasn't attacked anoth… Read More
2017-04-13 10:17
Manuel Hassassian, the Palestinian envoy to the UK writes disparagingly about the way Mrs May's Tory government treats Palestinians.
During his recent visit to Ramallah, Boris Johnson re… Read More
2017-04-12 23:10
Kali Holloway a senior writer and the associate editor of media and culture at AlterNet reports Bernie Sanders if the most popular US politician.
Congress is wildly unpopular and for good… Read More
2017-04-12 23:00
Ring the number of you spot a tax dodger.
Craig Murray with an interesting analyst of Lord Ashcroft, the former deputy chair of the Conservative Party’s latest polling and ho… Read More
2017-04-12 16:41
The Chicago Police Department's statement claims officers forcibly removed a passenger who refused to leave the plane, claiming he was irate and needed to be removed with force, as to his i… Read More
2017-04-12 07:35
Phil Burton-Cartledge reports on why it's important for LP delegates to the national conference to support the McDonnell Amendment.
It's getting to the time of year that Constituency Labo… Read More
2017-04-11 23:10
Last week the Pitchford Inquiry held hearings at the Royal Courts of Justice,The Strand, into political policing abuses in the UK. These are mainly centred on members of the Special Br… Read More
2017-04-11 23:00
The Real Reason the NYPD Won't Disclose Its Surveillance Technologies By Julie Ciccolini:
A new bill aimed at increasing police transparency has, unsurprisingly, received swift pus… Read More
2017-04-11 11:41
Leading Candidates
By Andrew Coates who reports regularly on the 2017 French presidential election on his blog Tendance Coatesy.
France 24 reports, “Jean-Luc Mélenchon nec… Read More
2017-04-10 23:15
Israelis hold signs calling to fight against racism, occupation, and for freedom of speech, in a march against the occupation in Jerusalem, April 1, 2017.
These are dark, somber days. Our co… Read More
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