Information and Analysis: Towards a world for people not profit
21st Century Socialism
Friday, 30th July 2010
In Depth
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 ...
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
by Simon Korner
Ramita Navai’s Unreported World television documentary, USA: Down and Out (C4, June 25, viewable online) gives a shocking insight into poverty in the United States. More ...
by S. Wordfish
By turns comical, far-fetched and occasionally moving, The Concert has a sub-text as slippery as an eel. It is an exemplary piece of contemporary anti-Communism-by-innuendo. More ...
by Jonathan Cook
There is one video Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, must be praying never gets posted on YouTube with English subtitles. To date, the 10-minute segment has been broadcast only in Hebrew on Israel’s Channel 10. More ...
by Claudia Ciobanu
Canadian company Gabriel Resources has managed to resurrect a cyanide-based gold exploitation project which had been declared illegal in the courts, and is opposed by most Romanians. More ...
by Hilary Keenan
Only a small coterie in the USA and South Korea know for sure what really happened to the South Korean warship. But, unreported in the Western media, the 'proof' that the Cheonan was sunk by North Korea has been thoroughly discredited. More ...
by John Wight
Since the invasion and occupation of Iraq back in 2003, a common refrain among those opposed to the war has been that Britain’s special relationship with America is not a relationship of equals, or partners, as successive British governments have sought to maintain, but rather more akin to that which exists between dog and master. More ...
Britain
When Barack Obama referred to a major UK-based criminal organisation by its former name, British Petroleum, a storm of outrage followed in the UK's corporate press and in the statements of Britain's Liberal and Conservative politicians. They strenuously denied the US President's outrageous implication that BP, the destroyer of lives, livelihoods and the environment, is a British company; while at the same time they insisted that the British government must bravely stand up for BP, Britain's most lucrative company in terms of shareholder dividends and the lifeline of the UK's pension funds. More ...
Britain
Following the inconclusive outcome of the British general election on May 6th, the ‘centrist’ Liberal Democratic Party decided to turn sharply to the right by agreeing to join the Tories in a coalition government. In the run-up to the election, the Tories had argued strongly that Britain faced the prospect of a fiscal crisis unless the government's deficit was brought down further and faster than the outgoing Labour government intended. More ...