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Resources on Gaza
For reliable and insightful information as Israel’s onslaught against Gaza continues, we recommend The Heathlander, The Democrat’s Diary, Lenin’s Tomb, Norman Finkelstein and the Electronic Intifada.
You can also take action for a ceasefire here, get involved with the campaign against the UK’s arming of Israel here, and join the UK’s Palestine Solidarity Campaign here.
Protests are taking place in central London and across the country on 3 January – more information is available here.
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Labour History Resurgent?
Paul Mason’s ‘Live Working or Die Fighting : how the working class went global’ “is not a programmatic statement for new forms of socialist organisation”, writes Terry Brotherstone, but it is “certainly relevant to those who want to participate in creating them.”
Is Cameron cosying up to Murdoch?
Nicholas Jones says David Cameron and his communications director Andy Coulson (just named PR professional of 2008) need no lessons on how to woo the Murdoch press: Tony Blair and Alastair Campbell blazed that self same trail in the 1990s.
Flying in the face of reason
As signs of a split in the Cabinet over Heathrow expansion have appeared, Chris Ames argues that the case for expansion is anyway based on deception. Unfortunately, however, the proposal may yet prevail.
Bankrolling coal: not just the oil and gas bank
While claiming to be addressing the environmental and climate impacts of its operations, the Royal Bank of Scotland has in fact been bankrolling intrinsically unsustainable coal developments to the tune of $15.93 billion in the last two years, including some involving notoriously harmful social and environmental practices. By PLATFORM
Children in the Cross-hairs
A shocking new report detailing Israel’s deliberate targeting of Palestinian children met with silence in the British press, illustrating once again, write Media Lens, that for the British media Palestinians are ‘unpeople’, lesser versions of humanity.
The Clyde Gateway: a new urban frontier
Neil Gray discusses the proposed gentrification of the Clyde Gateway area which, with its tracts of derelict land and deeply impoverished population, lends itself to a ‘discourse of decline’. However, the state-sponsored regeneration proposal that builds on this discourse amounts to little more than a form of welfare for the rich.
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Civil Disobedience is a Terrorist Threat
Posted November 15th, 2008 by Merrick GodhavenTagged:
The Observer’s publication of a scare-story about the threat of ‘eco-terrorists’ – citing an ‘unnamed source in the security services’, deliberately conflating civil disobedience with terrorism – marks a new area of state attacks on environmental activists.
Anti-Iran propaganda gets a free pass
Posted September 23rd, 2008 by JamieSWA recent Daily Telegraph article alleging that enriched uranium has gone missing from the Iranian facility at Isfahan has been slammed by the IAEA as “fictitious”, but the Telegraph has refused to publish a correction or a letter to the editor and no other mainstream outlet has reported the story.
5,000 march against the war at Labour Party conference
Posted September 23rd, 2008 by JamieSWTagged:
Stop the War Coalition: 5,000 protestors marched to the Labour Party Conference on Saturday demanding an end to the government’s slavish support for Bush’s wars.
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Back to class
The falling value and rising price of a degree is hitting some harder than others. Laurie Penny looks at what’s left of the egalitarian dream of universally accessible education