the state

March 13, 2014

Manifesto instalment out now: States of imagination

In the latest instalment in the Kilburn Manifesto Janet Newman and John Clarke discuss the state under neoliberalism, exploring both what it currently is, and how it might be reimagined. Continue reading

Capitalism, Events, London, UK

democracy, socialism, the state
November 2, 2013

Police State UK: Kick starting a movement against mass surveillance By Anthony Barnett

We are sleepwalking into despotism. Especially here in Britain. The fact of the nascent despotism is obvious. The UK state is developing systems of total surveillance to collect the metadata that maps the pattern of everyone’s relationships, movements, reading and communications. At the same time it is creating secret courts that will protect its use… Continue reading

Events, UK

culture, GCHQ, metadata, MI5, security, surveillance, the state
November 1, 2013

'Left reformism' and socialist strategy By Ed Rooksby

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”. Continue reading

Capitalism, Socialism

capital, class, radical, reform, reformism, socialism, socialist, SWP, the state
October 22, 2013

Police State UK: The witch-hunt of Britain’s Guardian newspaper By Julie Hyland

Raids on newspaper offices, the forced destruction of computer drives and threats to arrest journalists are actions more commonly associated with military dictatorships. But this is exactly what has been meted out against the Guardian, with threats of worse to come. Continue reading

Media

GCHQ, journalists, MI5, NSA, Prime Minister, security, snowden, the guardian, the state, WSWS
October 19, 2013

Now NATO is getting in on the digital snooping racket

Why is it compulsory that the state, or this case the military confab known as NATO, to have to hijack all of our digital devices throughout Europe? Is it even legal? Continue reading

NATO

Century Wire, children, journalists, NATO, RFID, students, the state, Toyota
October 17, 2013

Even the World Bank Understands Palestine is being disappeared By Jonathan Cook

Two recent images encapsulate the message behind the dry statistics of last week’s report by the World Bank on the state of the Palestinian economy. Continue reading

Palestine

community, Dissident Voice, Israel, Jonathan Cook, Palestine, Palestinian, resources, statistics, the state, World Bank
October 16, 2013

Alienation in Karl Marx’s early writing By Daniel Lopez

As Karl Korsh noted in Marxism and Philosophy, the philosophical foundation of Marx’s works has often been neglected. The Second International had, in Korsch’s view, pushed aside philosophy as an ideology, preferring “science”. This, he charged, tended to reduce Marxism to a positivistic sociology, and in so doing, it internalised and replicated the theoretical logic… Continue reading

Socialism

alienation, class, history, Marx, nature, philosophy, Review, the state, value
October 14, 2013

Media Lens: Where Journalism Collides With State ‘Security’: BBC News, MI5 And The Mantra Of ‘Keeping People Safe’ By David Cromwell

In our May 13 media alert we highlighted how the state, and a compliant media, relentlessly raise fears of the ‘shadows and threats’ that supposedly assail us. Continue reading

Media Lens, National Security State

BBC, David Cromwell, Foreign Policy, frank gardner, GCHQ, MI5, Propaganda, security, terrorist, the state
October 10, 2013

The NHS and You: The BBC wants to hear from you

The BBC is asking for your views on its news and current affairs coverage. This is a good chance to feedback any comments you may have on its coverage of the NHS Continue reading

Media, UK

anonymous, BBC, Health, NHS, Oliver Huitson, privatisation, the state
September 23, 2013

New Statewatch Journal 23 September 2013: Informants, spies and subversion

The intention is not to sort the “good” grasses from the “bad” but rather to interrogate the relationship between states and informers and better understand the role that they play not just in the pursuit of security and criminal justice, but state subversion and the pursuit of profit.” Continue reading

Europe, Spies-R-Us, Statewatch

database state, Journal, justice, liberties, police, privacy, security, surveillance, the state
September 13, 2013

Contested Reproduction and the Contradictions of Socialism By Michael A. Lebowitz

Why did ‘real socialism’ and, in particular the Soviet Union, fall? Let me note a few explanations that have been offered. With respect to the Soviet Union, one very interesting explanation that has been suggested is that it’s all the fault of Mikhail Gorbachev. And not simply the errors of Gorbachev but the treachery. Those… Continue reading

Russia, Socialism

bureaucracy, capital, class, democracy, labour, reproduction, socialism, socialist, Soviet Union, the state, Yugoslavia
August 27, 2013

Britain: Police justification for Taser killing in Manchester unravels By Tony Robson

Jordan Begley, a 23-year-old factory worker, was shot on July 10 at approximately 8:15 p.m. by officers from the Greater Manchester Police (GMP). The incident took place at his mother’s home where he lived in Beard Road, Gorton. Jordan died within two hours of being shot with the Taser, which carries a 50,000-volt charge. Continue reading

UK

England, IPCC, Jordan, police, prison, the state, Wales, WSWS
August 20, 2013

The Guardian: Downing St. involved in ‘Snowden materials’ destruction order

The effort to seize or destroy the Snowden-related documents held at the Guardian’s London office was handled by senior Whitehall officials, who answered directly to Number 10 Downing Street, Rusbridger said during an interview with BBC News on Tuesday. Continue reading

Liberties, UK

BBC, david miranda, Downing Street, GCHQ, greenwald, interview, London, Obama, RT, rusbridger, the guardian, the state
August 16, 2013

The Bullet: Connective Party or Return to a "War of Maneuver"?

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… Continue reading

Socialism

Gramsci, Lenin, social movements, the state
August 16, 2013

Preoccupying: an interview with David Harvey

David Harvey highlights the importance of challenging the state and addresses the everchanging ideal of the city and the social groups that sustain and contest it. Continue reading

Capitalism, Socialism, UK

capital, China, class, community, interview, London, social movements, the state
August 15, 2013

Creating a Situation that Does Not Yet Exist

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… Continue reading

Socialism

capital, Europe, Greece, Lenin, progressive, Spain, the state
August 10, 2013

The European Union and Greece: the Murder of a Nation By Anna FILIMONOVA

At the end of July, eurozone deputy finance ministers approved another transfer of money to Greece to the tune of EUR 6.8 billion (it had previously been thought that Athens would be allocated EUR 8.1 billion). Several days earlier, meanwhile, the Greek parliament approved the latest in a series of legislative acts, the adoption of… Continue reading

Capitalism, Europe

banks, community, debt, ECB, EU, Eurozone, Greece, growth, IMF, nature, Strategic Culture, the state
August 9, 2013

The Unnatural Death of Dr David Kelly: The Illusions of the Illicit Hutton Inquiry – the ‘Forensics’ By Dr. David Halpin

If Albion is perfidious in foreign lands is it not likely its cunning and its lying will be strong suits on the home front? The trappings of Crown, ancient ceremony, and red empire stamp authority and apparent integrity on the British state. These, and much else, are the coinage of a supine and incestuous media… Continue reading

UK

BBC, David Kelly, doctors, dodgy dossier, Dr David Kelly, empire, Global Research, High Court, inquest, Iraq, peace, suicide, the state
August 1, 2013

Israeli army recruitment plan aims to incite Christian-Muslim tensions By Jonathan Cook

Critics of a new Israeli army recruitment campaign say it’s designed to fragment the Palestinian community and make it more difficult to obtain their rights. Continue reading

Palestine

Arab, community, conference, Intifada, Israel, Jonathan Cook, Palestinian, the state, values
July 21, 2013

Political Assassination and the Crimes of War: The “Unnatural Death” of Dr. David Kelly By Dr. David Halpin

He was a member of the UNSCOM team finding and disabling germ and chemical weapons in Iraq. He would have seen the irony that almost all of these had been supplied to Iraq by western nations, including an anthrax strain that was originally cultured from a cow in Oxfordshire before WW2 (2). He visited 37… Continue reading

Iraq, National Security State, UK

David Kelly, Dr David Kelly, Global Research, inquest, Iraq, Israel, the state, unscom, WMD

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