What makes the British approach to World War 2 unique is that it is much more a central component of national identity than in any country which wasn’t occupied. This feeds a specifically English contempt for Europe and the Brexiteers seemed to talk about the war nearly as much as they banged on about immigration.
Ian Parker reviews “I Want to Believe: Posadism, UFOs and Apocalyptic Communism”.
Gilbert Achcar argues that even though governments are intervening massively to bail out entire sectors of the economy, it does not mean the end of neoliberalism.
Let us intensify the struggle to lift the blockade against Cuba! Solidarity, self-determination and internationalism! Our lives are worth more than their profits! – Statement from the Fourth International.
Whenever you think that Trump has reached the nadir of his Presidency, he always manages to continue the downward trend, writes Susan Pashkoff.
The secretive and brutal deportation regime was dealt a body blow in the night of 28 March 2017 at Stansted airport by 15 people from 3 groups. In a well-rehearsed operation, they cut through the perimeter fence and locked on round the undercarriage of an aircraft and immobilised it. The plane was being prepared on the tarmac apron some distance from the runway for a deportation flight to Nigeria and Ghana. The demonstators remained in position for 10 hours in the rain.
The Covid-19 pandemic remains out of control, and the government is in chaos but maintains a herd immunity policy writes Alan Davies.
Our starting point, in the best traditions of Earth Day, has to be the defence of the planet itself as a viable living space. We as human beings cannot keep on trashing nature without serious consequences.
Slavoj Žižek’s latest book mines the possibilities of exactly these new conditions in which we respect others in a quite new way, and he repeatedly returns to the question of what kind of social link COVID-19 creates in the world now.
We cannot wait for governments to act, we must act collectively to develop self-managed initiatives of working people, from the territories in resistance, in the countryside and in the cities.
