by Andrew On Sunday, with 500 others, I attended a meeting on ‘India’s war on the poor’ at Friends House in London. The headline speaker was the novelist Arundhati Roy. She spoke eloquently and movingly about the war by the [...]
Demonstrations have broken out in Madrid, Barcelona and many other Spanish cities in protest at the Government’s handling of the economic crisis. Sandra from the organisation Izquerdas Unidas (United Left) writes: The protest in the video is in my city, [...]
The following was written by a Tunisian academic now living in the UK who wishes for the moment to remain anonymous. In it she describes in detail how it felt to live under the internationally supported and recently deposed dictator [...]
‘The system is fucked’. That is the conclusion reached at the end of the film that has become in the last few weeks Brazil’s most succesful production of all time. ‘Tropa da Elite 2′ is the sequel to a film [...]
What does the audience watching this talk learn about why the majority of the people of Malawi are poor? They certainly seem to enjoy it, which must be a relief as they have paid thousands of dollars for the privilege [...]
The prospect of the failure of the Commonwealth Games in Delhi, with reports of unfinished facilities leading to athletes and even countries threatening to pull out, has led to an outpouring of racism in the British press. India was never [...]
A picket of the Russian Embassy in London is to be held on Monday September 20th. The protest is part of a series of international actions in defence of the Khimki hostages. These are two grassroots antifascist activists (Alexei Gaskarov [...]
Around 120 protestors braved the elements on Tuesday evening and raised their voices in a spirited and lively anti-cuts demonstration outside the offices of Haringey Council. The demonstration was organised by the Haringey Alliance for Public Services and marked the [...]
Slavoj Žižek recently proclaimed that ‘only a strong dose of the left can protect liberal freedoms’. At a moment like this, such a clear statement of the importance of radical left-wing ideas and of activity inspired by the Socialist tradition [...]
An exhibition has just begun in the Institute of Contemporatry Arts in central London which should be of great interest to socialists and radical activists. Chto Delat? is an autonomous Russian collective made up of artists, philosophers, activists. It takes [...]
There were a number of very positive things about the Compass conference ‘A New Hope’ in London last weekend. Both Caroline Lucas and Nick Dearden communicated very radical anti-cuts messages to a packed and very appreciative audience. The Green leader [...]
One of the tragedies of the failed New Labour experiment is that it was always based on a repudiation of all historical precedent. Alistair Darling seems to be feeling the pinch of this somewhat. He has attacked the Tories for [...]
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