7 November 2013 — Our Kingdom
The British public support nationalisation and price controls. They are losing their faith in free market capitalism, and political parties will do well to capture the radical mood of the public. Continue reading
Tag: progressive
Black Agenda Report for Oct 23, 2013: Black Homeland Security Chief / Remember Grenada Invasion / Forgiving White People
23 October 2013 — Black Agenda Report
This week in Black Agenda Report
By BAR managing editor Bruce A. DixonThe Department of Homeland Security is a secretive, lawless, largely privatized police and surveillance agency, with its own prisons and soon, its own drones. Now it’s headed by a black man, a progressive Democrat, a Morehouse man & Pentagon lawyer who invokes Dr. King as patron saint for murderous US global empire, a certifiable member of the black misleadership class. Continue reading
Black Agenda Report for Sept 11, 2013: Obama Defeated, Comes Undone / CBC Minions of War / Black Shadow Budget Revealed
11 September 2013 — Black Agenda Report
This week in Black Agenda Report
by BAR executive editor Glen FordPersuading the Left Intelligentsia on Syria
9 September 2013 — Memory Hole
Barack Obama’s fervent drive for yet more war carries a number of important lessons in terms of propaganda and the extent to which the “progressive left” literati can be persuaded to jump on the homicidal bandwagon.
Creating a Situation that Does Not Yet Exist
15 August 2013 — The Bullet • Socialist Project • E-Bulletin No. 864
For some two decades, the anti-globalization movement and its successors have assumed that society contains within itself – and automatically throws up – political oppositions and organizational forms independent of capital and of the state. There is simply the need to encourage the cumulative growth of society’s own potentialities for forming alternatives apart from the state and apart from the terrain of politics. Politics is not about the contesting directly, never mind conquering, political power. Instead, politics is viewed as the evolutionary and ‘progressive emptying out of the power of capital and of the state.’ Social coalitions, social forums, networks, and localist alternatives – with an associated range of one-off tactical actions – became the outer limit of organizational agendas.
Black Agenda Report 19 July 2013: Trayvon, White Madness, Dog Whistles, More on MHP, Teach For America
19 July 2013 — Black Agenda Report
This week in Black Agenda Report
by BAR executive editor Glen FordWhy millions of Egyptians wanted Morsi out By Abayomi Azikiwe
3 July 2013 — Pambazuka News Issue 637
The only real hope for Egypt is the formation of a government of national unity where the progressive forces are at the centre of the emerging political dispensation
STOP PRESS: Following mass protests, Egypt’s army has ousted President Mohammed Morsi from power, placed him under house arrest, suspended the constitution and pledged to hold early elections. The top judge of Egypt’s Constitutional Court, Adly Mahmud Mansour, has been sworn in as interim leader.
Washington v. Edward Snowden: The “Russia -China Connection” By Stephen Lendman
24 June 2013 — Global Research
Events are fast-moving. On June 23, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region’s (HKSAR) press release said:
“Mr Edward Snowden left Hong Kong today (June 23) on his own accord for a third country through a lawful and normal channel.”
Video: NSA Whistleblower: NSA Spying On – and Blackmailing – Top Government Officials and Military Officers
20 June 2013 — WashingtonsBlog
Whistleblower Says Spy Agency Targeting Top American Leaders
Call it Fascism: Big Brother Writ Large in America By Stephen Lendman
20 June 2013 — Global Research
Spying on its citizenry reflects one of the most defining police state characteristics. Post-9/11, America crossed the line.
Darcy James Argue's Secret Society – 'Brooklyn Babylon — Chapter Five'
6 June 2013
Weaving together progressive jazz, early-American popular styles, Balkan folk musics, and the sounds of Brooklyn’s diverse contemporary music scene — from the dance-punk of LCD Soundsystem and experimental indie rock of Dirty Projectors to Missy Mazzoli’s blend of post-rock and quirky minimalism — Argue creates a vividly evocative musical narrative that is at once timeless and unlike anything heard before. Argue’s Secret Society is one of the most admired ensembles in contemporary jazz, having toured in Europe, Brazil, and North America and been twice featured at the Newport Jazz Festival. Its members include in-demand instrumentalists such as John Ellis, Ingrid Jensen, Ryan Keberle, and Sam Sadigursky. Continue reading
Bradley Manning Court-Martial: Secrecy and Injustice on Trial By Stephen Lendman
4 June 2013 — Global Research
America honors its worst. It persecutes its best. Manning is heroic. He risked great personal harm. He did so to reveal vital truths. Washington has no right to conceal them. People have a right to know.
Secrecy, lawlessness, and contempt for humanity define US policy. Evidence vital to Manning’s defense is prohibited. Information refuting charges of “aiding the enemy” is barred from trial proceedings.
Claiming it’s not relevant or harmful to national security doesn’t wash. Excluding it reflects police state justice.
Report from Turkey: A Taste of Tahrir at Taksim By Sungur Savran
1 June 2013 — The Bullet • Socialist Project E-Bulletin No. 831
Istanbul has become a battlefield covered by tear gas. The police, no doubt at the behest of the Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan and his AKP government, have been attacking protestors in the centre of the city, near Taksim Square, for five consecutive days. This would have been no news at all: Turkish police are famous for their brutality in dealing with demonstrations unwelcome to the government. Only a month ago, on May Day, they had dispersed a gathering of thousands of workers and unionists using tear gas unsparingly. So nothing new on the police front. This time is different for another reason.
Video: Dan Hind: Democratizing the public sphere should be of acute interest to progressive movements
30 May 2013 — Youtube
The Croatian government is running a trial of democratic control of the media this year, and that’s why I was in Zagreb, giving the interview. The interview was made during Dan Hind’s visit to Zagreb and participation in the Balkan Forum of the 6th Subversive Festival 4-18th May 2013 Continue reading
The Manifesto of the Mediterranean Meeting in Tunisia
3 May 2013 — The Bullet • Socialist Project E-Bulletin No. 815
We, the representatives of progressive political parties from the Mediterranean region, gathered in Tunis from March 23 to 24, 2013, at the call of the Popular Front, and adopted the following resolution.
Video: Under Thatcher, the Poor Became Poorer
9 April 2013 — The Real News Network
John Weeks: Thatcher and Reagan set out to crush the union movement and assert the power of capital Continue reading
European Trade Unions and the Struggle for Public Services By Christoph Hermann
4 April 2013 — The Bullet • Socialist Project • E-Bulletin No. 797
The public sector is a key battleground for a progressive trade union strategy and for an alternative to neoliberalism in Europe. On the one hand the existence of a public sector is a continuing example that a not for profit driven production of goods and services is not only possible in the 21st century – it is also preferable. Continue reading
The Return of Empires (II) By Dmitry MININ
26 February 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation
A World of Postmodernism or the Newest Middle Ages?
The process already taking shape in the world of consolidating «larger spaces», and the return of the empires of by-gone eras may not, at first glance, seem to respond to the spirit of the times. However, we are living in an age which, in view of its uncertainty in people’s minds, is indiscriminate to such an extent that it is no stranger to the most improbable policy prescriptions.
15 February 2003: Reconsidering the March that Failed By Ian Sinclair, Alex Doherty
15 February 2013 — New Left Project
Ten years on from the largest public demonstration in British history NLP’s Alex Doherty spoke to Ian Sinclair, author of the new book The march that shook Blair: An oral history of 15 February 2003.
Black Agenda Report 31 January 2013: Melissa Harris-Perry Hides Cause of School Closings, Job Discrimination, Mali
31 January 2013 — Black Agenda Report
By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
The New Dark Age 