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The party game is over. Stand and fight

  • 04 November 2010
  • 213 comments

The lesson of the French anti-government protests is that “normal” politics exists only to promote corporate interests. Britain must prepare for a rebirth of the only thing that works — direct action.

The BBC is on Murdoch’s side

  • 30 September 2010
  • 62 comments

We deceive ourselves in thinking that the Beeb has a left-wing bias. The corporation is in thrall to the same interests as Rupert Murdoch’s New Corp and the saviour of Iraq, Tony Blair.

C’mon, time to rebrand your life!

  • 16 September 2010
  • 14 comments

Sport today seems obsessed with image, repackaging, pursuing profit. What ever happened to the sportsmanly spirit of Bobby Moore and the England 1966 World Cup squad?

Flying the flag, faking the news

  • 01 September 2010
  • 95 comments

Loud noises from Washington about a US pull-out from Iraq are a poor disguise for America’s determination to keep waging war. And the same sort of spin is at work here in Britain

Why WikiLeaks must be protected

  • 19 August 2010
  • 68 comments

The case of the Afghanistan war logs and the hounding of Julian Assange prove that there’s never been greater need to speak truth to power than today.

Blair must be arrested

  • 04 August 2010
  • 179 comments

Having helped destroy other nations far away, our former prime minister — “peace envoy” to the Middle East — is now free to profit from the useful contacts he made while working as a “servant of the people”.

Julia Gillard, the new warlord of Oz

  • 22 July 2010
  • 50 comments

The rise to power of Australia’s first female prime minister led to hopes for political change. But early signs indicate that Gillard will do little more than protect vested big-business interests.

The charge of the media brigade

  • 08 July 2010
  • 55 comments

Behind the Pentagon’s façade of honourable motives for invading other countries lies a history of promoting violence and covering up atrocities with wars of misinformation. Next stops: Afghanistan, Iran, North Korea.

The way to lie about another war

  • 03 June 2010
  • 20 comments

The CIA set a precedent with the Tonkin “incident”, sparking off the Vietnam war. Today, we see the same arts of spin at work in Israel’s reasons for the bloody assault on the Muslim aid ships to Gaza.

The heresy of the Greeks offers hope

  • 21 May 2010
  • 8 comments

Greece is a microcosm of a modern class war rarely reported as such.

The interview

Preview: Ken Livingstone: “The world is run by monsters”

The interview

Preview: Boris Johnson: “I’ll tell you what makes me angry – lefty crap”

On Syria

Intervention in Syria won’t work, so how do we stop Assad?

GOP race so far

Infographic: Republican primary race 2012

Mind your B-sides

Mind your B-sides

Time to rethink

Time to rethink, not reassure

Who minds?

Latter Day Taint?

Alistair Darling

Alistair Darling, the Miliband dilemma and what the party must do next
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