Beating the right and the coming European event horizon
“Event Horizon: (n) A spatial boundary around a black hole inside which gravity is strong enough to prevent all matter and radiation from escaping.” As the European economy teeters on…
Technology, self-organisation & some dreams for the #Occupy movement…
This post is by Liam Barrington-Bush, and first appeared at Concrete Solutions On my first day hanging around Finsbury Square, the 2nd London manifestation of the #Occupy movement, I met…
Feminism, journalism and practicing what we preach
How good are organisations that are committed to gender equality at getting their own house in order? Left-wing organisations, without exception, formally accept the basic ideas of gender equality and…
OK, the Times talks shit. Now can we move on?
In response to the 'expose' across the right wing press that people occupying London don't actually sleep in their tents, the occupiers have released a video: What it shows is…
Privatisation and the SNP
While Alex Salmond received a hero's welcome at the SNP conference in Inverness last weekend, controversy has been brewing back in Edinburgh. On Thursday, the City of Edinburgh Council –…
How can Occupy London Stock Exchange move beyond its limits?
This is a guest post by Guy Mitchell, who spent Saturday and Sunday at Occupy LSX. There is a starting point that is incredibly powerful to all this. It is…
Counterpower – a review
We are a generation facing failed economic policies, high expenses without the means to pay for them, a lack of employment opportunities that mirrors the Great Depression and a government…
In defence of Johann Hari
This is a guest post by Stuart Rodger I first stumbled across Johann Hari’s journalism in 2006, when I was a lonely, frightened gay teenager. Reading through his many articles…
Does the action of the Sparks herald a return to militancy?
Two years ago a wave of militant industrial action swept across the UK. As the global financial crisis unfolded, neo-liberal capitalism seemed to be in crisis, banks were nationalised, and…
Anti anti-growth and the fallacy of economics
As our current economic model continues to drive us relentlessly towards the precipice of cataclysmic environmental destruction. While simultaneously forcing us to contemplate a 'lost decade' of stagnate high unemployment,…