Capitalism
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Video: Survivors of UK’s Grenfell Tower Block Fire Demand Accountability for the Victims
21 June 2017 — TRNN One week after the disastrous fire that engulfed the whole of Grenfell Tower Block, survivors and their supporters demand justice and a reform of Britain’s national housing policy Continue reading
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Video: Survivors of UK's Grenfell Tower Block Fire Demand Accountability for the Victims
21 June 2017 — TRNN One week after the disastrous fire that engulfed the whole of Grenfell Tower Block, survivors and their supporters demand justice and a reform of Britain’s national housing policy Continue reading
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One Brit MEP is trying to stop the ban on dangerous pesticides! Mail your MEP Now!
A single British politician is trying to stop plans to ban bee-killing pesticides from our fields for good. In just 24 hours, some British MEPs – politicians on a powerful European committee – will be asked to reverse plans to permanently ban these dangerous pesticides. But there are hundreds of thousands of us reading this… Continue reading
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Grenfell Tower: A Fireman’s Story
A heartbreaking account of one fireman’s experience inside the inferno that was Grenfell Tower. A must read Continue reading
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Secret Plans to Cut NHS Services! Sign the Petition
The plans – called a “capped expenditure process” – are being finished right now and Vauxhall is in the shortlist of areas which could get the first round of cuts. Because the plans are secret, it’s hard to say exactly which services near you could be at risk. But the scale of the threat is… Continue reading
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Grenfell Tower Block Fire Petition
The government were warned time and time again of the fire risks in blocks of flats like this. But these warnings were ignored. Now, pressure is growing for the government to change the law to make buildings like Grenfell Tower safer when there’s a fire. It could make sure a tragedy like this never happens… Continue reading
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Grenfell Tower Action Group
15 June 2017 — investigating Imperialism Image from Grenfell Action Group Continue reading
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Book Review: We Need a Much Bigger Leap! John Bellamy Foster on Naomi Klein’s ‘No Is Not Enough’
There is much to admire in Naomi Klein’s new book, but she underestimates the danger posed by Trumpism, and doesn’t pose a real alternative. She calls for a Leap, but it isn’t high enough or far enough. Continue reading
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MAYfly, Brexit, the Economy and the SWP
Theresa May claimed that she called the election having been inspired to do so while on a walk. This fairy tale, like the election, lies in ruins. As the Tory hierarchy fall out and individuals try to duck blame, the ugly truth is dribbling out of fiery arguments between those who saw the advantages of… Continue reading
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Ban Glyphosate!
We need 1-million signatures. A successful ECI guarantees us a right to a public hearing in the European Parliament, and compels the European Commission in Brussels to spell out what action it will take in response. Continue reading
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Ten Theses on Farming and Disease By Rob Wallace
The corporate business model helps pathogens and pests to spread across the world. The only way to stop the next deadly pandemic is to end capitalist agribusiness as we know it. Continue reading
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Democratize This By Michal Rozworski
4 June 2017 — Jacobin Labour’s plans to pursue democratic models of ownership are the most radical aspect of Corbyn’s program. So much about the 2017 Labour election campaign has been heartening: the energy, the conviction, the full-throated embrace of remaking government in the service of the many. Continue reading
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Trump, climate and the breakdown of multilateralism By Dorothy Grace Guerrero
For social movements and climate justice campaigners, the US abandonment of the agreement is disappointing, but there is also a unity in understanding that the future of humanity on this planet does not rest on leaders alone. Continue reading
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US Military Sent over $1 Billion Worth of Light Weapons To “Multiple Armed Groups” in Iraq By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
In 2015, US Congress appropriated $1.6 billion for the ITEF program. The funds were earmarked to fight against the ISIS in response to Obama’s counter-terrorism campaign launched in Summer of 2014. In a bitter irony, a large number of these weapons landed up in the hands of terrorists including the ISIS. Continue reading
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Video: Arctic Climate Warming Twice as Fast As Anywhere Else
Prof. Subhankar Banerjee, Editor of “Arctic Voices: Resistance at the Tipping Point,” talks about the effect President Trump’s climate policies will have on the Arctic and on the rest of the planet (inc. Transcript) Continue reading
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In a Dozen Interviews, Media Never Bothered Asking President Trump About Climate Change
President Donald Trump’s disastrous withdrawal of the US from the Paris Climate Change Accord understandably has the media in a frenzy. “Unconscionable and fatuous,” proclaimed The Economist (6/1/17). Trump “shamefully abandons the fight against humanity’s greatest threat,” wrote Bloomberg News (6/1/17). But when given the opportunity over the past four months of his presidency to… Continue reading
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Toxic Relations: Stop Colluding with Monsanto and the Agrochemical Industry! By Rosemary Mason and Colin Todhunter
Rosemary Mason outlines how Monsanto has conspired to keep its money-spinning, disease-causing product (glyphosate-based) Roundup on the market via a combination of deception, the manipulation of science and regulatory processes and the co-option of key figures – the same company that was also involved in the cover up of Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). Continue reading
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