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Features - Friday, January 9, 2009 5:06 - 0 Comments
Remembering 1968
In 1968, French youths took to the streets of Paris demanding change and recognition - and incredibly, they got it. Forty years later, Camille Herreman examines the legacy of the movement and wonders if it has been a victim of its own success.
Politics - Friday, January 9, 2009 5:04 - 3 Comments
The gun-maker next door
Not many people are aware of it, but Nottingham is home to a major multinational arms company.
Politics - Friday, January 9, 2009 5:03 - 0 Comments
Fifth anniversary of the Iraq war – and of Ceasefire Magazine
We warned about the disastrous conequences of basing British foreign policy on a blind annexing of our national interests to those of the world’s superpower and, sure enough, many of those consequences have come to pass.Arts & Culture - Friday, January 9, 2009 4:55 - 0 Comments
Death of a genius
By many accounts, David Foster Wallace was the greatest American writer of the past 50 years.Arts & Culture - Friday, January 9, 2009 4:54 - 0 Comments
Mark Curtis reveals a very British contempt for democracy
Ben Rath Mark Curtis (2003) Web of Deceit: Britain’s Real Role in the World (London: Vintage) (2004) Unpeople: Britain’s Secret Human Rights Abuses (London, Vintage) Myth and illusion have always been central to the working of imperial power; how often we hear the lofty rhetoric of freedom, democracy, and human rights to justify aggression and […]
Columns - Friday, January 9, 2009 4:49 - 0 Comments
An unjustifiable police presence at climate camp
The police operation at this year’s climate camp was politically motivated and unjustifiable, writes a climate camper
Interviews, Profiles - Friday, January 9, 2009 4:27 - 1 Comment
Interview Norman Finkelstein – ‘The left is not a political force in American life’
Norman Finkelstein is a renowned scholar and author of ‘The Holocaust Industry’ and ‘Beyond Chutzpah.’ Hicham Yezza asked him about the Israel-Palestine conflict, Iran, and Obama.
Features - Tuesday, July 22, 2008 11:23 - 11 Comments
Terrorist or not? The political organisations banned in Britain
Since 2000, the British state has maintained a list of organisations which are officially banned. People are not supposed to be members of these organisations. We aren’t even supposed to support these organisations. Even wearing a T-shirt bearing their name or logo is a criminal offence. Such is the depth of political control today.
Ideas - Monday, July 21, 2008 17:13 - 4 Comments
What is imperialism?
We’ve all heard the word, but what does it mean? Here, Dr. Andrew Robinson looks at the economic and social history of imperialism, examining the work of key thinkers, and asks whether imperialism is still around us.
