Austerity, Brexit and the Corbyn challenge
After the harshest winter for more than a decade, Britain finds itself still gripped by the icy fingers of neoliberal austerity, writes Phil Hearse. Both the health service [...]
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Corbyn to make politicians pensions greener
This week, Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn and Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell signed the pledge for the Fossil Free UK campaign to Divest Parliament, writes Joe Walsh The [...]
Charlottesville Virginia and the failure of legitimisation of the Far Right
The “Unite the Right” demonstration held in Charlottesville Virginia on the 12th of August was meant to be a turning point for the far right in the US. Using the excuse [...]
Love is not enough
Andy Stowe reviews Naomi Klein’s new book “No Is Not Enough” on Trump’s rise and her plan for defeating him. The first thing that hits you reading this very useful [...]
Corbynism arrives in Australia
Greens Senator Lee Rhiannon, the standard bearer for a more radical politics in the Australian Greens, has found herself compared to Jeremy Corbyn but the impact of Corbyn [...]
Momentum looks to the future
Brian Standish reports from the March 25th Momentum Conference in Birmingham. It was well attended – probably about 500 people and it was standing room only in the [...]
Brothers in power
Return to the Shadows: The Muslim Brotherhood and An-Nahda since the Arab Spring, Saqi, 2016 £16.99 reviewed by Farooq Suleheria The phenomenon of the Muslim Brotherhood [...]
Corbyn’s relaunch
Susan Moore looks at what the Labour leader has been doing since Christmas: Corbyn’s relaunch since the start of the year has seen him take a more combative and pro-active [...]
Why isn’t God answering?
Andy Stowe reviews Silence by Martin Scorsese. Any film about Jesuit missionaries that has Ad maiorem Dei gloriam (for the greater glory of God), the Catholic [...]
