Greed – comedy with a kick

Andy Stowe reviews the film "Greed", directed by Michael Winterbottom, and with Steve Coogan as McCreadie, a fashion mogul based on real-life billionaire Sir Philip Green.

‘The bell is tolling’ on Heathrow expansion

Aviation is the fastest growing and most dangerous form of greenhouse gas emissions we face. The impact of CO2 emissions at high altitude is around double of such emissions at surface level—a factor which is conveniently ignored by the international aviation industry and by the Tory government.

Palestine: The “deal of the century” or a new attempt to liquidate the Palestinian question

Trump and Netanyahu are promoting their so-called Middle East peace which constitutes a veritable program for a new attempt to liquidate the Palestinian question, and is in violation of all the international resolutions passed by the United Nations and of international law.

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  • The electric cars revolution

    21st February 2020

    Modern society was massively (grotesquely) shaped by the ICE – the Global North in particular. It spawned the development of suburbia and the drive into the city to work. This destructive legacy will take huge investment to reverse.

  • Winter in the Bookshop

    17th February 2020

    Sylvia has not written a history: it is better than that. She recollects the activities, the feelings and the hopes of young people coming into politics. The story is delightfully irreverent and funny.

  • Michael Löwy argues that the ecological crisis is already the most important social and political question of the 21st century.

  • Analysing a disastrous result

    12th February 2020

    This was not only a devastating defeat for the left and progressive forces, but a huge victory for English nationalism.

  • Parasite by Korean director Bong Joon Ho, which has done so well at the Oscars, is at its heart about class war and family.

  • As Bashar al-Assad brutally crushes the last areas in not under his control, Syrian socialist Joseph Daher gives this wide-ranging interview