Wednesday, 7th January 2009
In Depth
Televised debate. Participants: Calvin Tucker (co-editor of 21st Century Socialism), Cristina Palomares (FAES Foundation, Madrid), Francisco Dominguez (Director, Centre for Latin American Studies, Middlesex University). Presented by Alan Mendoza of the Henry Jackson Society. More ...
What lessons can be drawn from China's spectacular and sustained economic growth? More ...
The way that Russia marked the 15th Anniversary of the end of the USSR, the final events of which took place between the 8th and 31st of December 1991, has caused consternation in the Western media. More ...
The Ma’an News service is a valuable resource. While its TV stations inform and entertain the locals, its news agency (MNA) sends the world 24-hour news from beleaguered Palestine. Viewers of its well-designed website receive minute-by-minute information in Arabic, Hebrew and English, with local news from ten districts in the West Bank, Gaza and Jerusalem, accompanied by high quality, and often shocking, photographs. More ...
The greatest successes in industrial development and prosperity of the last fifty years have been produced by state ownership and investment, central planning and regulated monopoly rather than by the 'free market'. More ...
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Current Affairs
Death shrouds the hallways of Gaza City’s Ash-Shefa medical compound, its smell creeping in from all corners. More ...
by Calvin Tucker
The Western press rushed to report a story which framed Venezuela's socialist president Hugo Chavez as a covert supporter of terrorism. Now it is clear that the key 'evidence' on which the story was based does not exist- but this is a fact which the media chooses not to publish. More ...
The following statement on the Israeli war crime against Gaza has been issued by 14 Palestinian human rights organisations. More ...
by Noah Tucker
Through the proposals in the Welfare Reform White Paper, the UK government intends to make the 'underclass' work for its living. The experience of similar measures taken in the USA indicates that the likely effect of these reforms will be to depress wages, while having no beneficial impact on the level of poverty. More ...
by Francisco Domínguez
Had elections with similar results taken place in any other country, they would have been reported in the corporate media as giving a landslide victory to the pro-government forces. More ...
Supposedly, it shouldn't happen in a liberal, democratic country- the detention for nine hours of a top opposition politician, while his houses in Kent and London, and his parliamentary office, were raided and searched by elite police units, his laptop computer and his mobile phone seized for investigation. More ...
Headlines
The image of Che Guevara - beret, long hair, handsome face fixing you with his stare, is reckoned to be amongst the most reproduced images in the world. Whereas corporate symbols, the McDonald’s Golden Arches, the Nike swoosh, Coca Cola’s red and white can or bottle, have come to represent one version of globalisation, a Che T-shirt represents another. More ...
Britain
Ken Livingstone, former Mayor of London, in conversation with Calvin Tucker, co-editor of 21st Century Socialism. Part 3: racism, the media, his record as London Mayor, and plans for the future. More ...
People & Culture
A photographic record of the rural armed struggles and urban conflicts which have led to the overthrow of royalist rule and the establishment of the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal More ...
Opinions
This year is the centenary of the birth of the Chilean socialist hero Salvador Allende, and also the 35th anniversary of the military coup which overthrew his Popular Unity government. As current events in Venezuela and elsewhere in Latin America show, the thousands who were murdered in that coup did not die in vain. The course of their struggle provides valuable, though painful, lessons for revolutionary movements today and in the future. More ...
International
In Highgate Cemetery, three miles from where I write, Karl Marx's body lies a-mouldering in his grave; and, for so many years, it seemed that his critique of the capitalist system was also safely buried. More ...
Britain
Many prominent Labour Party members, including more than fifty Members of Parliament, have expressed their concern about the installation of parts of the USA's post-Star Wars radar and missile system in Europe, and have called for a debate in Parliament on the issue. A new poll shows that their views are supported by majority opinion in Britain. More ...