Features
Features - Monday, February 23, 2009 7:32 - 4 Comments
Sowing the Seeds – Gaza 2009
'Not surprisingly,' writes Rowan Lubbock, 'the anger and rage that is slowly sprouting form this latest sowing of violence is already visible. As with all episodes in the great chess-game of Middle East power politics, it is the weak that suffer the consequences.'
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.
Features, The Anti-Imperialist - Friday, January 9, 2009 5:05 - 1 Comment
Africa: the return of colonialism
We tend to think of problems on the African continent as purely internal. But, argues Adam Elliott-Cooper, that ignores our own role in fuelling the brutal conflicts that are taking place.Interviews, Profiles - Friday, January 9, 2009 4:35 - 1 Comment
Interview Gavin Hayes – Can Labour be saved?
It is now a common assumption that Labour is in a state of collapse. Yet there are those, like as the influential pressure group Compass, who think it can be saved. Gavin Hayes, its General Secretary, spoke to Musab Younis about the super rich, Thatcher and revolution.Interviews, Profiles - Friday, January 9, 2009 4:30 - 1 Comment
Interview Michael Albert – On the death of capitalism
Musab Younis Michael Albert is a renowned activist, speaker and writer who was elected President of the MIT student body during the 1960s, and expelled for his vocal and direct anti-war activism. He is the co-founder of ZNet, an independent media centre which incorporates the successful, ad-free magazine ZMag. Albert is perhaps best-known for his […]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 - Friday, January 9, 2009 4:18 - 2 Comments
The struggle for academic freedom
The recent arrest of two university members over political research fits into a broader picture - the relentless corporatisation of our universities, and the disastrous results that follow. University of Nottingham alumnus and academic Jeremy Bates looks at the struggle between marketisation, and resistance.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.
Features - Thursday, May 29, 2008 14:55 - 2 Comments
The future of the world – as seen from an airport
by Hicham Yezza Airports are salty wounds, full of tight air and crimson stale tears and often, when sitting rigidly on an Africa-to- Europe flight, I can feel the passengers are wounds inside wounds: bundles of dry nerves in a bath of dry uncertainty.
Features - Saturday, April 26, 2008 18:05 - 7 Comments
What we can learn from Black Power
In less than 200 pages, Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America, written by Stokley Carmichael and Charles Hamilton, virtually decimates any book published recently in terms of perception, understanding and potential.
