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Home » Articles posted by Richard Willmsen

  • India’s war on the poor

    India’s war on the poor

    • June 13, 2011
    • By Richard Willmsen
    • Ecosocialism, India
    • no comments

    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 [...]

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  • Demonstrations break out across Spain – exclusive video

    • May 19, 2011
    • By Richard Willmsen
    • Europe, Video
    • 3 comments

    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, [...]

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  • ‘The Invisible Hand’ – an inside view of Ben Ali’s Tunisia

    ‘The Invisible Hand’ – an inside view of Ben Ali’s Tunisia

    • February 8, 2011
    • By Richard Willmsen
    • Africa, International, Online exclusive, Tunisia
    • no comments

    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 [...]

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  • Rio: Crime, corruption and mega-events

    Rio: Crime, corruption and mega-events

    • December 30, 2010
    • By Richard Willmsen
    • Brazil, Online exclusive
    • 1 comment

    ‘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 [...]

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  • Social entrepreneurship – the future of capitalism?

    • November 15, 2010
    • By Richard Willmsen
    • Britain, Most read, Online exclusive
    • 1 comment

    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 [...]

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  • No more colosseums!

    No more colosseums!

    • September 26, 2010
    • By Richard Willmsen
    • Britain
    • no comments

    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 [...]

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  • Defend the Khimki hostages – join the Russian embassy picket Monday 20th

    • September 17, 2010
    • By Richard Willmsen
    • Britain
    • 2 comments

    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 [...]

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  • Haringey protest against Labour council’s threat of £70m cuts

    • September 14, 2010
    • By Richard Willmsen
    • Anti-cuts
    • 1 comment

    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 [...]

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  • Review: Žižek is endlessly elliptical and self-reflexive

    • September 13, 2010
    • By Richard Willmsen
    • Most read, Reviews
    • 2 comments

    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 [...]

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  • The Urgent Need to Struggle – Chto Delat? at the ICA

    The Urgent Need to Struggle – Chto Delat? at the ICA

    • September 12, 2010
    • By Richard Willmsen
    • International, Left debates, Most read, Reviews
    • 2 comments

    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 [...]

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