2017-01-20 00:35
Below Peter Loo reports on the social change taken place in the Kurdish area of Northern Syria.
In 2012 the PYD, a Kurdish political party connected to the Kurdistan Worker’s Pa… Read More
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Political and societal blog, analysing the world from a left socialist, internationalist, and a working class perspective.
2017-01-19 00:36
Below Owen Jones reports from Turkey; President Erdoğan emboldened by the rise of Trump, is crushing fragile freedoms, tens of thousands detained and the press muzzled.The once vibrant… Read More
2017-01-19 00:35
Will Stone writing in the Morning Star points out eight billionaires own as much as as half the world's human beings.
Rampant inequality has reached the point where a group of men o… Read More
2017-01-19 00:30
Paul Nuttall the great white hope of the mainstream media.
Below Phil, in the third article in this series previews the Stoke-on-Trent Central By-Election.
Finally, here's the third install… Read More
2017-01-18 00:30
Davos: Responsible capitalism by Marxist economist Michael Roberts
Today, the global political and economic elite meet in Davos Switzerland under the auspices of the World Economic Foru… Read More
2017-01-18 00:30
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been accused of “peddling lies and deliberately misleading the public” about the impact of upcoming cuts to housing benefit, whi… Read More
2017-01-18 00:30
Below is the second of Phil Burton-Cartledge articles about Stoke-on-Trent Central.
MH------------------------Stoke-on-Trent Central unlamented former MP.
This is the second p… Read More
2017-01-17 00:30
Below Phil Burton-Cartledge gives his take on Tristram Hunt's flight to a safe establishment birth. Phil is a member of Stoke on-Trent Central LP and wor… Read More
2017-01-17 00:20
2017-01-17 00:20
Junior doctor Mona Kamal looks why NHS is now in the worst crisis in its history and is rapidly approaching breaking point.
In 2011 the NHS was lauded as the best health service in the dev… Read More
2017-01-16 12:51
2017-01-16 00:30
When Ramsay Macdonald and the other turncoats left Labour for a snug National government birth in 1931, it took Arthur Henderson, George Lansbury and then Clem Attlee 14 years to renew the p… Read More
2017-01-16 00:25
Boris Johnson makes little use of the scripted answers provided by officials when he answers Foreign Office questions and speaks largely off the cuff, which means that h… Read More
2017-01-15 12:46
2017-01-14 10:54
Mick Whelan.Below Simon Hattenstone a features writer for the Guardian interviews Mick Whelan, the leader of the rail union Aslef. If you are concerned about safety on the railways this is a… Read More
2017-01-14 00:30
Clare Hollingworth in Vietnam, taking to the skies and on the Egyptian side of the Suez canal, 1968.
Robert Fisk asks how would legendary foreign correspondent Clare Hollingworth have report… Read More
2017-01-13 00:30
President-elect Donald Trump may have declared that he has $315 million of debt owed to ten separate lenders, but a new report suggests that his conflicts of interest in this regard could… Read More
2017-01-13 00:30
He’s been gone five minutes, and already he’s poised for a comeback. According to The Indy, David Cameron is Theresa May’s nomination for the next NATO gener… Read More
2017-01-13 00:20
Stormont castle like many Ulster Unionists all fur coat and no drawers.
Whatever I might feel about the mockney parliament at Stormont and the NI executive there is little doubt Martin McG… Read More
2017-01-12 10:11
We are sick of this tug of war which is tearing our party apart. We don’t want a custody battle over the party’s name and assets. We don’t want to deselect anyone. We just… Read More
2017-01-12 00:20
Larry Hughes reviews a book on the second oldest profession in the world. This piece first appeared on the Pensive Quill.
Neil Root the author was born in London in 1971. After completing a… Read More
2017-01-11 00:36
Donald Trump mocks disabled New York Times reporter pictured on right.
One of the most, and simultaneously least, amusing aspects of Donald Trump is the dawning realisation, as evidenced by… Read More
2017-01-11 00:35
Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness leaves his Stormont Castle office in Belfast after he announced his resignationThe political crisis enveloping the Northern Ireland Assembly and Executive is th… Read More
2017-01-11 00:30
Rumours of infiltration and interference in the workings of the British Labour party by Israel's intelligence agencies have long been circulating. Thanks to undercover reporting by Al Jazeer… Read More
2017-01-10 00:35
When you read this remember, before Hitler went for the socialists, communists, liberals, gypsies and Jews, he went for the disabled. There was method in his madness:
Please sit down. Th… Read More
2017-01-10 00:30
Below Craig Murray looks at the British and US governments double standards when it comes to Israel.
There is no starker proof of the golden chains in which Israel has entangled… Read More
2017-01-10 00:20
I was asked to pass this on: SKWAWKBOX has covered the various stages in the debacle of the still-ongoing suspension of Wallasey CLP (constituency Labour party) and the murky goings-o… Read More
2017-01-09 15:11
Gerry Adams spoke to a packed republican audience in west Belfast on Saturday?Martin McGuinness is to resign at 5pm today as deputy first minister of the Northern Ireland Executive in… Read More
2017-01-09 00:35
Palestine. A building site in the illegal Israeli settlement of Gilo in East Jerusalem.
Below Stanley Cohen writing in Caged But Undaunted discusses Israeli land theft… Read More
2017-01-09 00:30
Vince Cable, a former leading of the centre-left Liberal Democrats in the United Kingdom and a senior minister in the country’s previous Conservative-Lib Dem coalition government, h… Read More
2017-01-06 11:49
This is how NHS England manipulate and manage the press coverage of the NHS.Today the Nuffield Trust has reported on the large number of hospital trusts declaring ‘black’ alert… Read More
2017-01-06 10:51
New homes for rent in Berlin.
Below Matt Phillips points out why a majority of Germans don't believe it's necessary to own their own home.
The country’s homeownership rate ranks among… Read More
2017-01-06 00:30
"Censorship reflects society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime."
Below is some good advice from the Irish blogger An Sionnach Fion… Read More
2017-01-05 10:39
2017-01-05 00:35
Soon after it became common knowledge Ukip's Paul Nuttall welcomed the privatisation of the NHS, claiming it's "a monolithic hangover from days gone by," his minions in the party justified… Read More
2017-01-05 00:30
Mhairi Black being sworn in at the Westminster parliament becoming the UK's youngest MP.Mhairi Black has vowed to be “a thorn in the side” of the UK Government over the “ho… Read More
2017-01-04 12:33
Philip Maughan looks back at the life of the marxist, art critic, novelist, painter and poet, John Berger who recently died aged 90.
In 1967, while working with the Swiss photographer Jean… Read More
2017-01-04 00:35
2017-01-04 00:20
Ukrainian MPs fight over the spoils in parliament.
Last week, as the world prepared for the Christmas holidays, Ukrainian MPs gathered in parliament at 10am, and departed 20 hours later. Thi… Read More
2017-01-03 00:30
Uri Avnery in his regular column for Gush Shalom sounds an alarm bell at Donald Trump's choice for US ambassador to Israel.
David Friedman with Trump.
Donal… Read More
2017-01-03 00:20
One of countless homes in Las Vegas which the banks have foreclosed on.
If social housing provision in the United States is already highly marginalised and directed towards the very poor, it… Read More
A Party Which Has Over 650,000 Plus Members, Is Hardly In Its Death Throes Let Alone Disintegrating.
2017-01-02 09:45
I see the young Blairite Gavin Callaghan has been busy stirring up apathy and division in a blog post on Your Thurrock. His claim the Labour Party is disintegrating is not only untruthful, b… Read More
2017-01-02 00:35
Most C.I.A. memoirs are terrible — defensive, jingoistic and worst of all, tedious. Others are doomed by the C.I.A.’s heavy-handed and mandatory censorship.
There are exception… Read More
2017-01-01 00:30
Tommy McKearney, one of the most level headed Irish commentators points out below Trump's victory has been forty years in the making.
It couldn’t happen here!
An incredibly wealthy… Read More
2017-01-01 00:25
In an extract from his new book The Candidate: Jeremy Corbyn’s Improbable Path to Power, Alex Nunns explains how Corbyn was able to survive the attempt of his MPs to overthrow him.
Co… Read More
2017-01-01 00:20
2016-12-16 09:30
2016-12-16 08:32
"Dealing with Ukip is like trying to play chess with a pigeon. Even if you win within the rules, the pigeon will clutter up the pieces, and finally it will shit on the chessboard, lea… Read More
2016-12-15 12:08
In Turkey it pays to acquiesce; indeed it has become essential. This week a young boy grieving at the funeral of his father, killed in the latest attack, was seen to look at President Erdo… Read More
2016-12-15 00:30
2016-12-14 09:00
"In a few hours, the British parliament is to debate the plight of the doctors, nurses, wounded children and civilians of Aleppo and other areas of Syria. The grotesque behaviour of the UK… Read More
2016-12-14 00:30
Below Mark Perryman provides a seasonal round-up of the best books to cheer up the radical spirit.
From #chaoticbrexit to the triumph of Trump via the summertime Labour coup, 2016 will b… Read More
2016-12-14 00:30
Mike Phipps reviews New Labour: Was the Gain Worth the Continuing Pain?, by Dr Gaye Johnston, (It can be found on the Kindle store)
New Labour dissectedBy Mike Phipps
This is an ambitious b… Read More
2016-12-13 00:30
Below Kenan Malik, the Writer, Broadcaster, and Blogger looks at Bob Dylan's lyrics in the age of Trump. It's great stuff.
Even the president of the United Statessometimes must have… Read More
2016-12-13 00:30
Craig Murray in the article below asks this; "Do Julian Assange and I have a reputation for truthfulness? Well in 10 years not one of the tens of thousands of documents WikiLeaks has releas… Read More
2016-12-12 11:13
The British mainstream media portrayed the defeat of the Italian government referendum as a defeat for the left and a victory for the far right. But as Cinzia Arruzza points out below thi… Read More
2016-12-12 00:25
Residents flee in Haifa after trees caught fire and spread to parts of city.
The Uri Avnery column examines the recent spate of fires in Israel:
When my parents married in Ger… Read More
2016-12-12 00:20
2016-12-11 12:58
2016-12-10 10:55
2016-12-10 00:32
Terry Bell writes about his former comrade in the anti apartheid movement who died recently aged 92:
Myrtle Berman, anti-apartheid activist, librarian, political prisoner, hunger strik… Read More
2016-12-09 08:18
We refer to them as ‘rebels’ – as if they were the Maquis fighting in the French resistance or Partisans freeing Yugoslavia from the Nazis or, indeed, the insurgents of Wa… Read More
2016-12-09 00:32
The British government needs to come out of the shadows and tell us what Brexit will actually mean.
On Wednesday Tory MPs, John Whittingdale and Michael Gove suggested to the Confederation o… Read More
2016-12-09 00:30
Ukip flyposting Union flags on lamp posts.
Gareth Fearn sets out a Labour Party strategy to win over potential Ukip Voters:
For a brief moment on last Thursday’s Question Time, the cri… Read More
2016-12-09 00:25
2016-12-08 00:31
Below is an article from Rachael Swindon which she first posted on her new Blog. In it she takes a pop at Labour MP's Tom Watson and Michael Dugher. Like many of us who voted… Read More
2016-12-08 00:30
2016-12-08 00:25
“The fate of Aleppo has the potential to seal the fate of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's regime in Turkey. Too many of Erdogan's eggs are placed in the basket of northern Syrian geo… Read More
2016-12-07 18:42
Cover letter by Julian Assange:
"Six years ago today, on 7 December 2010, I was handcuffed and locked into Wandsworth prison by order of a Swedish prosecutor, Marianne Ny. I had not and s… Read More
2016-12-07 00:35
Bill Clinton meets Adams
As Hillary Clinton and her closet campaign aides continue to blame everyone but themselves for her humiliating defeat in the presidential co… Read More
2016-12-07 00:25
Jill Stein at a news conference in front of Trump Tower in New York on Dec. 5, Stein is spearheading recount efforts in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin.
The Green Party’s push fo… Read More
2016-12-06 11:48
2016-12-06 11:42
Harmatz as a young man.
Joseph Harmatz, who has died aged 91, was one of the few surviving “Avengers”, a death squad formed after the Second World War by Jewish partisans to take… Read More
2016-12-06 00:30
Organized Rage does not normally republish Guardian opinion pieces, but Larry Elliott the paper's economics correspondent is spot on in the Article below. The remain campaign have made no… Read More
2016-12-06 00:25
2016-12-05 00:30
Flags in the Free city of Danzig in the 1930s which were designed to intimidate the Jewish population.An elderly lady who I have known for many years said to me at the weekend: "Why are… Read More
2016-12-05 00:27
Corbyn represents common decency and progressive societal change whereas Nuttall represents reaction and the hard right.Frank Parker writes mainstream media pundits hit new heights of s… Read More
2016-12-05 00:25
Hilary Beaumont of Vice News reports on the arrival yesterday of several hundred US military veterans at the Sacred Stone protest camp in the Cannon Ball area of North Dakota… Read More
2016-12-04 10:09
2016-12-03 13:25
Republicans are panicking because the Green Party’s presidential recounts in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania could prevent Donald Trump from receiving 270 Electoral College vot… Read More
2016-12-03 10:56
There are no independent foreign journalists present in east Aleppo. They are not there for the very good reason that Isis imprisons and beheads foreigners while Jabhat al-Nusra, until rece… Read More
2016-12-02 12:42
People flee rebel-held eastern neighborhoods of Aleppo into the Sheikh Maqsud area, controlled by Kurdish fighters.Writing in the Independent Mary Dejevsky posed this question:
Given tha… Read More
2016-12-02 01:00
2016-12-02 00:35
Megha Rajagopalan is a World Correspondent for Buzzfeed covering Thailand and greater Asia below she reports on President Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody drug war has filled the streets with… Read More
2016-12-02 00:30
Willie McKelvey, who has died aged 82, was a popular working-class Labour MP whose career was divided between two former bastions of Scottish industry, Dundee and Kilmarnock. The link was… Read More
2016-12-01 12:14
By Gina Petry
Our final days representing Radical Women and the FSP at Standing Rock were action-packed and compelling.
Varied voices of water protectors
Members of the Internatio… Read More
2016-12-01 11:08
Paul Nuttall with one of his more unsavory friends, the English Defense League Stockport area leader, Andy Edge.
I expected better from Ukip members in Thurrock than this, it reeks of the… Read More
2016-12-01 00:25
Members of the Lucas Aerospace Combine Committee on the steps of Wortley Hall, 1977Hilary Wainwright of Red Pepper reflects on an attempt by British workers to produce a democratically alter… Read More
2016-11-30 13:00
Paul Nuttall's election by a landslide suggests a desire on the part of the party’s much-reduced membership (of which, 15,500 out of 33k cast a ballot) to put the recent perio… Read More
2016-11-30 01:30
To hear the simplistic denial of those who scream out with naiveté “give Trump a chance” as they condemn others engaged in selfless protest against a certain political… Read More
2016-11-30 00:20
UK Public sector workers demonstrate against what amounts to paycuts
Along with last weekend's political poll the Irish newspaper the Sunday Business Post and RedC polled some opinions on ot… Read More
2016-11-29 12:08
Labour’s candidate in the Richmond Park by-election claimed vindication on his environmental policies today after local greens attacked their party leader over the question of tacti… Read More
2016-11-29 11:04
[By arming and financing Islamic militias in Syria] "the Americans and the Europeans are like the shepherd who allows the wolf into his home – this wolf will eventually eat all the ch… Read More
2016-11-29 00:20
2016-11-28 17:41
2016-11-28 00:30
As he tours the U.S. in the wake of Donald Trump's devastating electoral victory this month, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is using his growing influence within the Democratic Party and amo… Read More
2016-11-28 00:25
Steve Freeman looks at a Little England which has been trumped.
Here we have a glimpse of reality, (see link) entirely absent from the Tory referendum. The iconic picture of Trump w… Read More
2016-11-28 00:21
Julian Assange once said of Google: “A “don’t be evil” empire is still an empire.” How true those words are turning out to be.
It is impossible to calculate… Read More
2016-11-27 13:08
In mobster movies the bad guys always kidnap the wife of the protagonist. They’ll phone the husband to say: “We have your wife. Do as we tell you otherwise she’s gone.&r……Read More
2016-11-27 00:20
Post-Election, Noam Chomsky Braces the Left for a Trump Presidency from AlterNet on Vimeo Read More
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