Recent revelations about VW cheating emissions tests have underlined the obvious fact that private business interests are not the same...
Neoliberalism
The dominant ideology of modern times is hard to pin down but its influence is global and catastrophic. A mixture of bogus economic theory, direct assaults on behalf of class power and a Trojan horse to subvert democracy – everyone needs to understand the nature and influence of neoliberalism.
NEVER in our worst nightmares did we imagine that the government would behave so shamefully it would be investigated by...
Bolivia is calling for investigations into cables leaked by WikiLeaks that reveal the US had plans in 2008 to topple...
We have not seen this type of anguish since the days of my boyhood in the 1930s | Harry Leslie Smith
Today’s Tory Britain is sickeningly unjust – but my past does not have to become your future... THE darkness of...
Earlier this summer, the world watched Greece try to resist a disastrous neoliberal diktat and get a painful thrashing in...
Not many people enjoy the existence of poverty. Some think it’s inevitable, others that tackling it is politically impossible. But...
Interesting discussion hosted by WellRed films. In the almost total absence of any mainstream coverage worth watching (its mostly...
While other countries apply themselves to environmental challenges from climate change to nature protection, Russia - with its massive wealth...
China has fined the British pharmaceuticals giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) $488.8 million (3 billion Yuan) for a “massive bribery network” to get doctors...
In autumn 2002 the Observer newspaper’s correspondent Ed Vulliamy found confirmation of a terrible truth many of us already suspected. In a world-exclusive,...
Following Jeremy Corbyn's landslide election as new Labour leader his new shadow cabinet is taking shape, and there are many...
Tick, tick, tick - BOOM! Jeremy Corbyn has done it - he is the new leader of the Labour Party,...
Those who run the world seem to suffer from cognitive dissonance. On one hand, they say that without social law...
Labour's 1983 election campaign has long been used to say it is impossible for a leader like Jeremy Corbyn to...
Ben is the founder and lead media speaker for Positive Money. We have featured their work in the past because...
China’s rise has come at horrific social and environmental cost. . The first time Li Gengxuan saw the dump trucks...
Terrible pictures arrive onto social media of refugees from Syria and elsewhere, washed up on the shores of Europe. One...
Today's lesson in how propaganda works: The rumor mill turns a trickle of a story early this week about "thousands" of...
Noam Chomsky and other serious critics on the left often have to contend with dismissals from opponents (including most in...
This autumn may see anti-austerity coalitions gain power in Portugal, Spain and Italy, while Marine le Pen’s National Front in...
THERE never was a truer example of “when you’re in a hole, stop digging.” Tony Blair’s article in the Observer...
I grew up in a tiny town of less than 1500 people in western Montana. It is a land of...
Will The Labour Party allow me to vote for in their leadership election? As a lifelong Labour voter until the Iraq War...
"Our governments care more about the concerns of big business than scientists' warnings about climate change." Two weeks to save...
The zombie apocalypse has upended the entire TV business. Those were the words of America’s TV Guide in response to...
Though we like Seamus Milne - his discussion of smears against Corbyn in the mainstream media would carry more weight...
They must think we are all stupid. Not even four months into the new conservative administration and the BBC (whose...
This shocking picture exposes the brutal reality of David Cameron’s Bedroom Tax – a severely disabled Merseyside man forced to...
BRISTOL, England—On a recent evening in this port city, Mark Kerridge and Kester Ratcliff patiently explained the inner workings of...
"Never presume to know, therefore, for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee" The political graveyard where Labour's loony right and...