Capitalism
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Reversing The Tide: Cities And Countries Are Rebelling Against Water Privatization, And Winning By Tom Lawson
Problems with water privatization often begin to occur soon after the initial wave of enthusiasm – from lack of infrastructure investment to environmental neglect. A 2005 study by the World Bank said that overall evidence suggests “there is no statistically significant difference between the efficiency performance of public and private operators in this sector.” The… Continue reading
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Army plots against British PMs are not new By Jonathan Cook
Jeremy Corbyn,Photo by AP Photo There has been some debate about the significance of a warning issued this weekend through Rupert Murdoch’s Sunday Times by a British general that the army would “mutiny” and use “whatever means possible, fair or foul” should the new Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn ever get near 10 Downing Street. Continue reading
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Nasty party’s racist policies damage the NHS By John Lister
Nurses forced to leave Britain, new charging systems being set up even for emergency care – Tory policies are damaging the NHS, writes John Lister in an article from the latest Keep Our NHS Public newsletter. The NHS is already suffering as a result of racist changes to the rules governing non-EU staff, even as… Continue reading
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The NHS stays centre stage as the political ground shakes By Tony O’Sullivan
As Labour’s newly elected leader throws down the gauntlet on undoing NHS privatisation, the Tory ideological and financial attacks on our health service are escalating. Continue reading
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The Trade Union Bill is an attack on the NHS, our services, and all that it means to be British By Caroline Molloy
Tonight, David Cameron attempts to drive through a bill which will make it ‘close to impossible’ for trade unions to take any lawful industrial action. Senior Tory MP David Davis this weekend complained that parts of the Trade Union Bill (which gets its second reading this evening) resemble something General Franco would have come up… Continue reading
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Help stop the bee deaths
In 48 hours, I’m meeting with the government minister in charge of bees – Liz Truss. She’s my MP – I’m going to talk to her about toxic bee-killing pesticides, and why they need to stay off our fields. I’m Paul, a 38 Degrees member from Norfolk. Can you help raise a million voices behind… Continue reading
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Is Jeremy Corbyn’s foreign policy socialist? By Chris Marsden
For most working people, sympathy will rest with Corbyn. But the crucial issue to be understood is that none of this imparts a socialist character to his policies. Nor does it mean that those looking to him as a means of opposing war will find the answers they are seeking. Continue reading
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Purge of Jeremy Corbyn Voters Unmasks Britain’s Labour Party By Jonathan Cook
If Corbyn wins, it would be the first time in living memory that the UK has had a Labour leader who is actually of the left. It is a prospect terrifying our supposedly liberal media, including the BBC and most of the Guardian’s senior staff, from Polly Toynbee to Jonathan Freedland. Continue reading
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Video: Smoke and Mirrors of Corporate Buybacks Behind the Market Crash By Michael Hudson
Michael Hudson, the author of Killing the Host: How Financial Parasites and Debt Destroy Global Economy, says the stock market crash on Monday has very little to do with China and all to do with shortermism and buybacks of corporations inflating their own stocks. Continue reading
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TTIP threatens our bees!
There’s a huge new threat to our bees – and it’s wrapped up in a secret trade deal. If we don’t stand up for our bees, the dangerous bee-killing pesticides we’ve fought so hard against could be flooding our fields again – and back for good. Continue reading
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What does the “Jeremy Corbyn phenomenon” represent? By Chris Marsden and Julie Hyland
A new “one member, one vote” system for the leadership contest was meant to help consolidate the party’s right-wing course, based on the assumption that the electorate—or, more properly, the narrow social layer to which all the parties pitch their rotten wares—shared the party’s concerns and prejudices. This appears to have backfired. Continue reading
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Tell Unilever to pay up!
I’ve got an important meeting tomorrow with UK company Unilever – and I need your help to make sure it has an impact. 38 Degrees members have been piling on the pressure for Unilever to fix the mess left by their factory’s deadly mercury spill in India. Unilever’s mercury spill has ruined lives and poisoned… Continue reading
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Revolutionary Greece By Andre Vltchek
In the recent history, Greece already lost countless sons and daughters during the German, Italian and Bulgarian fascist occupation. It was also choked by North American and British imperialism, which supported Greek military and its horrid dictatorship. That is when the Pinochet-style disappearances, torture, and assassinations took place. Hundreds of thousands of Greek patriots had… Continue reading
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US-NATO Military Deployments, Economic Warfare, Goldman Sachs and the Next Financial Meltdown By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
US led wars in the Middle East under the humanitarian mantle of the “global war on terrorism” largely serve the interests of Wall Street, the Anglo-american oil conglomerates, the so-called ‘defense contractors”, the biotech conglomerates (Monsanto et al), Big Pharma and the corporate media. Continue reading
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War in Our Time By Andrey Panevin
1 August 2015 — Slavyangrad War In Our Time The Crisis of Distraction “Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses a revolt that can become fruitful.” –Albert Camus In 2015 we are barrelling towards a third world war at breakneck speed… Continue reading
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More dead bees? Thank the Barbarians!
Fresh batches of bee-killing pesticides are on their way to British farms right now. [1] Prime Minister David Cameron could stop these toxic chemicals before they are spread across our fields and wreak havoc on bees. But he’ll only do it if enough of us pile on the pressure. Continue reading
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SA(S)R Syndrome Moves On By S. Artesian
Short-Attention-Span-Radicalism has quickly recovered from its setback in Greece, finding solace in its own unique spin on Joe Hill’s supposed last words– “Don’t mourn, Don’t organize; Forget, Ignore, Repeat.” The SARs brigade made up of VIBs; SIPs; near, neo, quasi, democratic, semi, hemi, demi, erratic, mo, po, po-mo socialists is done sitting shiva for Greece… Continue reading
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Video: Who rules Europe?
From the outbreak of Europe’s debt crisis in 2010, Germany and the Troika institutions of the European Commission, European Central Bank and IMF have come to wield immense influence over the continent and the populations within it. This video examines the individuals and institutions of power in Europe. Continue reading
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Video: Interview with Costas Lapavitsas
In the case of Greece the Eurozone is an unmitigated disaster. Greece basically doesn’t belong in the Eurozone. If you weren’t Greek and you weren’t subject to the culture and so on, the everyday life here, it would be so obvious again looking at it from the outside. This is a country that’s been thrashed… Continue reading
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Syriza Betrays Greece’s No Vote: Why the Left Should Form a Popular Front Against the EU By Stavros Mavroudeas
The referendum’s victory with such huge margin was unexpected even for the NO supporters. In the short one-week campaign the Greek economic and political elites unleashed a blatant terror and misinformation campaign through their mass media purporting that a NO vote would destroy Greece and that EU’s terms should be unconditionally accepted. In this unconcealed… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 