Thatcher
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Broken Britain: Broken record By Ann Czernik
The interpretation and response to mass expressions of anger, frustration and despair from the media, politicians or the public is like a broken record. Over and over again, we hear the same phrases and the same message. Continue reading
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July Days Again in Britain — This Time in August By S. Artesian
The sun never sets on the poverty of British capitalism. In its wretchedness Britain represents the pinnacle of bourgeois society. In its decline Britain is a monument to the market, to private property, to progress. Continue reading
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I’m starting to think that the Left might actually be right By Charles Moore
Throwing off the chains: in the late 1970s, the circulation of Murdoch’s Thatcher-supporting Sun overtook that of the ever-Labour Daily Mirror – I’m starting to think that the Left might actually be right Continue reading
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The NewsCorp inquiry: an exercise in mass deceit By Robert Stevens
For the British ruling elite, Prime Minister David Cameron’s speech to a specially convened session of parliament was a critical moment. The decision to hold the special session was dictated by demands that Cameron respond to Tuesday’s appearance of News Corp head Rupert Murdoch, his son James and former News of the World editor Rebekah… Continue reading
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Moeletsi Mbeki: On Wealth creation in South Africa
I CAN predict when SA’s ‘Tunisia Day’ will arrive. Tunisia Day is when the masses rise against the powers that be, as happened recently in Tunisia. The year will be 2020, give or take a couple of years. The year 2020 is when China estimates that its current minerals-intensive industrialisation phase will be concluded. Continue reading
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Why teachers should strike (even if they don’t want to) By Ed
On June 30, although most of the teachers and lecturers in the NUT, ATL and UCU will be going on strike, not all of them will be. The following post, by Jacob Mukherjee*, presents a case for why those teachers should make the sacrifice and join the strike on June 30. Continue reading
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How New is the New Imperialism? By William Bowles
24 April 2003 Reagan-Thatcher, Bush-Blair, can you spot the difference? I hope you can still recall the days of Ronald Reagan and the ‘Evil Empire’, ‘Star Wars’ and all that other Hollywood-inspired propaganda crap. Well in any case, it’s around twenty years ago that we were subjected to the formative stirrings of the ‘neo-con revival’ Continue reading
The New Dark Age 