G4S & Serco fraud: Oops, we couldn't tell the difference between right and wrong
British outsourcers cheated taxpayers out of tens of millions of pounds. Yesterday they said sorry. So that's all right, then.Yesterday, senior executives from Britain's four largest public services...
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Has Siberia had enough of Russia?
With Siberia’s enormous natural resources being mercilessly exploited by Russia, and now China as well, Aleksei Tarasov wonders if the region might some day amount to more than someone else’s...
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Wales, Scotland and the UK
Yesterday, Carwyn Jones, First Minister of Wales, gave a speech at Edinburgh University in which he outlined his case for the union, and for a UK constitution which enshrines devolution. This is the...
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Shining a spotlight on Poland
Poland has long been the subject of offensive stereotypes and a hostile UK media. Our new Spotlight on Poland hopes to shine a light on this misunderstood country.“There has been a history, let's face...
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A cock and bull story
Genitalia have played an important role in recent Russian politics: last year Pussy Riot, this year Pyotr Pavlensky who has made a very public spectacle of his private parts in Red Square. Is he just a...
View ArticleNothing left? In search of (a new) social democracy
(Real) social democracy is not just unknown to several generations of voters, but it is contradictory to their individualist or ethnicized worldview. So far the analyses and prospects do not look...
View ArticleHow to reverse a slow-motion apocalypse
A movement isn’t called that for nothing. It has to move people. It needs lovers, and friends, and allies. It has to generate a cascade of feeling - moral feeling. Apocalyptic climate change is upon...
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From 'Silence Would Be Treason' - the last writings of Ken Saro-Wiwa
No, Shell are merely hoping that the government will succeed in “pacifying” the Ogoni and then they will move in proudly and calmly to continue to steal. They are in for a fight they will never...
View ArticleA Growing Madness
It's become far too easy for pharmaceutical companies to market drugs that simply don't do what their supposed to. As alcohol is such a familiar substance this article hypothesises it as a new...
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Frankenstein's bankers - the tale every taxpayer should know
It is now 5 years since the banking crash but its effects are still with us. What exactly happened, what has the world done about it, and is there anything to stop something similar happening again?...
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Neither working at a kebab shop, nor intending to blow up a plane
On the routine indignities of a migrant's life in Britain.The author in the Highlands, Summer 2013“Are you working at a Kebab shop?” the policewoman at Gatwick Airport border control was yelling at a...
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Time for India to clean up its act
As the world’s largest democracy, India should champion human rights globally. Conscious of its own tawdry record, however, New Delhi’s voice is seldom heard. India should clean up its act and...
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The Radical Independence Conference convinced me last year
After living there for three years, Alys has been persuaded to campaign for an independent - and radically different - Scotland - and encourages you, if you can, to come to the Radical Independence...
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Progress with roots
In the last thirty years, the Basque Country has transformed itself from an economic backwater under Spanish dictatorship to a pioneer in sustainable human development. How did they do it?The Mondragon...
View ArticleBorder patrol international
The U.S. border is no longer static and 'homeland security' no longer stays in the homeland: it’s mobile, it’s rapid, and it's international. Todd Miller exposes the growing border-security complex. It...
View ArticleEgypt in the balance: what the blogs are saying 15 - 20 November
This 'You tell us' feature offers some first hand accounts and a range of opinions in blogs, articles and tweets, first and foremost from the people of Egypt.November 15The ministry of interior...
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Carwyn Jones, the constitution, and the changing forever of Britain
Whatever happens in Scotland, the Welsh First Minister will ensure that the constitutional debate continues across the UK. Britain is changing forever.Carwyn JonesMost people haven't heard of Carwyn...
View ArticleSyria: CW disarmament enters critical phase as hell breaks loose
If by any chance a rogue group gets hold of CW – even from an entirely different source – and uses them, we will be back to the prospect of missile strikes again. Knowing that to be the case, some...
View ArticleExiting the Vampire Castle
We need to learn, or re-learn, how to build comradeship and solidarity instead of doing capital’s work for it by condemning and abusing each other. This doesn’t mean, of course, that we must always...
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All hail the vampire-archy: what Mark Fisher gets wrong in 'Exiting the...
Where to start? He repeatedly accuses feminists of being “moralisers”, when he's not saying we're “vampires” or “liberals” instead. But there can be no real solidarity without intersectionality....
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