How US Uncut saved my friend from jail
To protect the identity of the person in this story, I'll refer to him as "Harold." On a recent Sunday morning, my best friend Harold's birthday, we both intended to…
University Students Support Lecturers’ Strike.
The University and College Union (UCU), the recognised trade union for lecturers and academic support staff at Edinburgh University, have balloted to strike on Thursday the 17th and Thursday the…
6 Billion Ways: When did we become obsessed with monetary policy?
I'm at the "Six Billon Ways" conference this weekend, which is organised by the main NGOs campaigning for global justice - this is my thoughts on the first discussion -…
Organising Against Austerity: Economic Power, Unions and Communities
In the UK today we no longer have mass industrial trade unions; with the possible exception of the transport unions it is hard to have an effect that can't simply…
6 Billion Ways and our global struggle
The struggle against neo-liberalism is global or it is nothing. It is easy to imagine that the current cocktail of poisons forced on the people of Britain is something new.…
Bright Green Fringe at the Green Party Conference
This weekend's Green Party Conference, featured a new fringe organised by Adam Ramsay - Bright Green (named after the very excellent blog of the same name). I was asked to…
The Case For High Speed Rail
Photo by Irargerich via flickr I was quite shocked to discover that during their party conference at the weekend, the Green Party of England & Wales has voted to oppose…
The Case Against High Speed Rail
The proposed High Speed Rail (HSR) project can not be part of a green solution to Britain's transport infrastructure problems. The carbon emissions from a trip using HSR would be…
Privatising profit and socialising risk
This is essentially the modus operandi of the modern western government: to promote the interests of corporate gloabalisation and to offload the risks onto the people. This has manifested itself…
San Francisco Uncut: we decide what American means
A couple of weeks ago while still living in London I read Paul Mason's 20 reasons why it's kicking off everywhere. I remember thinking where the hell is the US?!…