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
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The Censorship That Dare Not Speak Its Name By James F. Tracy
5 November 2013 — Memory Hole
The Censorship That Dare Not Speak Its Name
This is a subtly revised set of remarks given at “The Point is to Change It” conference on November 1, 2013 at the University of San Francisco. The event was co-sponsored by Project Censored.
'Left reformism' and socialist strategy By Ed Rooksby
7 October 2013 — International Socialism
There has been a significant revival of interest among the radical left in “big picture” questions of socialist strategy that, as Mark L. Thomas has pointed out, represents a return to “important debates of the left largely absent over the last three decades”.1
“The struggle to tell the truth through stories”: An interview with British film and television producer Tony Garnett—Part 1
23 October 2013 — WSWS
In a retrospective this summer, “Seeing Red,” the British Film Institute (BFI) celebrated the work of veteran film and television producer Tony Garnett. The BFI described Garnett as one of television’s “most influential figures,” who “produced and fostered a succession of provocative, radical and sometimes incendiary dramas.” Continue reading
History Will Absolve Me: Fidel Castro, Sixty Years Later By Maximilian Forte
17 October 2013 — Zero Anthropology
Today marks the 60th anniversary of Fidel Castro’s famous “History Will Absolve Me” speech, given in his defense during his trial following the unsuccessful guerrilla attack on the Moncada barracks on July 26 of that year.
The complete speech, which was transcribed after the fact entirely from memory, is available here in English and aquí en Castellano, and below I am highlighting certain extracts which I think are still critically relevant today.
Ready to detonate: Saudi-backed rebels strap bombs to Geneva-2 talks By Nile Bowie
15 October 2013 — RT
As Syria’s rebels refuse to take part in Geneva-2, Saudi Arabia has emerged as the primary state-backer of rebel groups now trying to escalate the Syrian conflict and topple Assad by force.
More competition medicine – now it’s your GP’s turn By Deborah Colvin
9 September 2013 — OurNHS
GPs are the most cost-effective part of England’s NHS – so why is the government so keen to make radical changes to address the lack of ‘competition’?
Iran Foreign Minister: “We Informed US of Chemical Weapons Transfer to Syria 9 Months Ago”
1 September 2013 — Iran Times
Interview with Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif
By: Aseman Weekly
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Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the Islamic Republic had sent an official memo to the United States through the Swiss Embassy in Tehran (which serves as the US interests section in Iran) last December, in which Washington had been forewarned that “handmade articles of chemical weapons, including sarin gas, are being transferred into Syria.”
The Russian position on the chemical attack on East Ghouta affirmed
31 August 2013 — Australians for reconciliation in Syria
Taken from Al-Hadath News and translated from Arabic, 23 August 2013. It confirms what was already apparent from other reports including the Saudi connection.
Pepe Escobar: More democratic freedoms in Saudi Arabia? Not going to happen
12 August 2013 — RT
Saudi Arabia policies are enormously hypocritical. They discriminate against 10 percent of their own population, the Shiites, while saying they are intervening in Syria for more democracy, journalist Pepe Escobar told RT.
SYRIZA: The Great Social and Political Movement of Subversion
7 August 2013 — The B u l l e t • Socialist Project • E-Bulletin No. 860
Political Resolution, First Congress of SYRIZA
1 The Conference of the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) is a continuity and a breakthrough in its course, which started in 2000, continued with its official founding in 2004, and was sealed when it took on the historic responsibility to deliver the Greek people from the catastrophic neoliberal memoranda policies that have turned our country into a debt colony and led its creative, social, and productive forces to marginalization.
Which way for Left Unity? The case for the Left Party Platform
2 August 2013 — Socialist Resistance
[And here’s a defence of the ‘Party of Left Unity’. WB]
A debate has begun inside Left Unity – the project to set up a new party of the left in Britain – about what kind of party it should become. Here Tom Walker argues the case for the Left Party Platform
A Socialist Programme for London? By Carl Rowlands
30 July 2013 — New Left Project
It is easily forgotten that the 1980s were nearly not the 1980s at all, politically speaking. At the decade’s outset, an aggressively organised, ideologically diverse Left insurgency was the ascendent force in a Labour Party hovering around 50% in opinion polls, as the British public recoiled from the initial, monetarist-brutalist phase of Thatcherism.
UK Event: Revolutionary realignment, democracy and the new left
16 July 2013 — Socialist Resistance
Hetero what?
A joint public meeting of the Anticapitalist Initiative, International Socialist Network and Socialist Resistance.
7pm Tuesday 23rd July at the University of London Union, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HY
Corruption, Accountability and Media Power By Justin Schlosberg, Tom Mills
15 July 2013 — New Left Project
Justin Schlosberg is lecturer in journalism and media at Birkbeck, University of London and the author of Power Beyond Scrutiny, a book examining how the British media cover cases of institutional corruption. In an interview with NLP’s Tom Mills he discussed media power and democratic accountability in the UK.
Questions surrounding 2011 triple murder point to government cover-up in Boston Marathon bombing By Thomas Gaist and Barry Grey
12 July 2013 — WSWS
The New York Times published a front-page article Thursday (“In 2011 Murder Inquiry, Hints of Missed Chance to Avert Boston Bombing”) that raises new questions about the alleged perpetrators of the April 15 Boston Marathon bombing and adds to the evidence of a government cover-up in the explosions that killed three people and wounded more than 260 others.
Video: Glenn Greenwald: “Rogue” Actions of U.S. in Snowden Row Yield Latin American Offers of Asylum
8 July 2013 — Democracy Now!
Venezuela, Bolivia and Nicaragua have opened the door to granting asylum to National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden in a standoff with the United States. The offers came after a plane carrying Bolivian President Evo Morales was forced to land in Austria after France and Portugal barred it from their airspace over false suspicions that Snowden was on board. The United States has refused to confirm or deny whether it was responsible. We discuss the latest with Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald, who broke the NSA surveillance story based on Snowden’s leaks last month. Continue reading
Racist David Brooks Applies His Mental Equipment to the Egypt Coup By Jim Naureckas
5 July 2013 — FAIR Blog
David Brooks
“Islamists…lack the mental equipment to govern,” New York Times columnist David Brooks writes today (7/5/13). “Incompetence is built into the intellectual DNA of radical Islam.”
Now, Brooks has been known to cite eugenicist Steve Sailer on “white fertility rates” (12/7/04;Extra!, 4/05). But let’s give him the benefit of the doubt and assume that rather than making a racist argument, he’s simply appearing to be racist as a metaphor (as when he wrote recently that interracial marriage was producing a “nation of mutts”–6/27/13).
Escalation of Syria War: Ahmed Al-Assir, America’s Pawn in Lebanon By Phil Greaves
28 June, 2013 — Global Research
This weeks conflagration near Sidon, a majority Sunni city in the South of Lebanon has been on the cards for some time. Sheikh Al Assir, the instigator of the street battle’s with the Lebanese Armed Forces, (LAF) has been on a concerted campaign to incite sectarian strife and division between the Sunni and Shi’a sects in Lebanon, with one major goal; to draw Hezbollah into a sectarian-based conflict.
Escalation of Syria War: Ahmed Al-Assir, America’s Pawn in Lebanon By Phil Greaves
28 June, 2013 — Global Research
This weeks conflagration near Sidon, a majority Sunni city in the South of Lebanon has been on the cards for some time. Sheikh Al Assir, the instigator of the street battle’s with the Lebanese Armed Forces, (LAF) has been on a concerted campaign to incite sectarian strife and division between the Sunni and Shi’a sects in Lebanon, with one major goal; to draw Hezbollah into a sectarian-based conflict.
The New Dark Age 