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The great tide of 31 January 1953
An enormous surge of water over the coastal lands of south-east England sixty years ago took hundreds of lives and marked survivors for a lifetime. A meticulous account of the tragedy written a few...
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British and American empire: patterns of power
Despite its claims of 'exceptionalism', the US empire is following in the footsteps of Britain and other European imperial forebears. Alex Doherty interviews the author of new book,'Patterns of...
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What do today's republicans have to say about work?
Historically, republicanism has failed to reconcile the principle of non-domination with the realities of economic life. What do contemporary republican thinkers have to say about work and...
View ArticleWhy the British left must engage with Europe
Labour needs to re-think its position on Europe. Time to blow off the dust from Tom Nairn's unparalleled 1972 essay on Britain and what was then an infant EU.Picking through the detritus of twitterings...
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Can we cooperate our way out of trouble? A review of ‘The Resilience...
Embrace local and co-operative models to build a decentralized, steady-state economy. So says a new book by Michael Lewis and Pat Conaty, but does it convince?The Resilience Imperative - Cooperative...
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Why Russia is not losing Siberia
The Yellow Peril was a feature of life in Soviet times and the demographics on either side of the Russia-China border do little to convince the fearful that Siberia will not be colonised by the...
View ArticleAlgeria, Mali: another front in the “Global War on Terror”?
What the Islamist terrorist threat has become is an incoherent pretext to intervene militarily on the part of the west. The only principled position to adopt therefore is the rejection of both, for the...
View ArticleThe new generation and the future of the broader Middle East
In the wake of the Arab uprisings some governments may have changed but the challenges remain the same. The recent rise to power of untested Islamist political parties means that they will have to...
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A Presidential address brings the radicalism of Seneca Falls into the 21st...
A century and a half after the Declaration of Sentiments and Rights, President Obama’s nod to Seneca Falls, Selma and Stonewall is important to the politics of equality, a potent reminder that,...
View ArticleMigrants and the State: an exclusive national family?
Agnes Woolley examines the implications of the UK Government’s new rules on family migration and argues that if families are the building blocks of a secure and stable nation, then the right to family...
View ArticleLost in a 1990s timewarp: the UK and the European Union
Is the crucial change in the UK's position in the EU, that demands a referendum, really the need to extend UK doctors' working hours? And what of the EU – has it got a better story to tell?As debate...
View ArticleG4S human rights record under tough Scandinavian scrutiny
Putting reputational capital at risk: when a security company's human rights record counts in the contest for public contracts.Politicians in Oslo have been pushing for the exclusion of British-Danish...
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After the election, Czech political transformation is not over yet
On Saturday, the Czechs elected Miloš Zeman, an important figure of the democratic transition of the 1990s, to be their new president. Although this role is mostly a symbolic one, expectations were...
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Israel: the whirlwind and the butterfly wings
Perhaps someone forgot that Rothschild blvd used to be Rehov Ha'Am: The People's Street, before it was renamed after the tycoon, an irony that seemed to come full circle in that humid summer.It wasn't...
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Sovereignty and the national question
The British media's sidelining of Scotland and its referendum is part of a history in which questions of nationality are smothered by the UK establishment. Today, it is increasingly clear that popular...
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A false start for the UK's fresh settlement with Europe
While Germany and France were celebrating 50 years of European successes, David Cameron outlined a much more pessimistic vision of the future of the Union, further underlining, if proof were needed,...
View ArticleA bill to re-instate the NHS?
A new bill to reinstate the legal and democratic basis of the NHS in England has been laid before parliament in the House of Lords by David Owen. Here, to launch our new NHS section, Owen writes for...
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It’s not me, it’s you: a bad Egyptian break-up
Just as Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood have been continuously accused of hijacking and jumping on the coattails of the revolution, now the finger is being pointed by activists towards other activists...
View ArticleThis week's window on the Middle East - January 28, 2013
Arab Awakening's columnists offer their weekly perspective on what is happening on the ground in the Middle East. Leading the week: It’s not me, it’s you: a bad Egyptian break-upIt’s not me, it’s you:...
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Are smaller avenues of collective self-determination emerging out of the crisis?
Is national citizenship still a valid organizational factor in the context of the crisis? A radical re-thinking of political citizenship, based on smaller entities such as Catalonia, Scotland or...
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