#idlenomore: Clayton Thomas-Muller speech on indigenous rights
Clayton Thomas-Muller of the Mathias Colomb Cree Nation in Northern Manitoba Canada is the tar sands campaign director for the Indigenous Environmental Network and a friend of Bright Green. He…
Mexico to Canada, indigenous North Americans take brave first steps into a new era
By Liam Barrington-Bush As the Mayan calendar came to a close yesterday, signifying the end of what the ancient empire had described as ‘the fifth era,’ Indigenous peoples of North…
¡No Pasarán! David Lomon 1918-2012, survivor of the International Brigade
David Lomon, the last survivor in Britain* of the International Brigade, died yesterday. He was 94. A salesman in Hackney, East London, Lomon started his political life battling Oswold Mosley's…
No silver lining: The ugly truth about Canadian mining in Oaxaca, Mexico and beyond
Jen Wilton and Liam Barrington-Bushreport from San José del Progreso, Oaxaca, Mexico In a small, dry town in the south-west of Oaxaca, Mexico there is a deadly political battle being…
An open letter to the BBC on their use of the word 'militant'
Dear BBC, I am writing to complain about you coverage of the ongoing violence in Israel/Palestine. I am sure that you get many such complaints. Much of this, I suspect,…
Obama? Stein? It's decision time
Every four years, radicals in America face a dilemma. Should they vote Democrat to keep out the Republican? Or should they vote for a candidate who offers change? (some, of…
Even if Iran did have nukes, what would it do with them?
It took some chutzpah for the prime minister of the country possessing the world’s largest unregulated nuclear arsenal to lecture the United Nations on the dangers of an Iranian bomb.…
Campaigners target Adidas with huge projection at Olympic park
Last night, this is the scene that greeted thousands of people as they left the Olympic Park after the men's 100 metres final. Projected on to a building overlooking the…
Last week's agreement on oil could lead to war between the Sudans, not avert it
Tim Flatman, writing from Juba, South Sudan The “international community”, a nebulous concept at the best of times, achieved rare unity in its desire for and welcoming of an agreement…
Scottish Coalition Against NATO and For Peace Formed
The SNP are considering reversing their opposition to Scottish membership of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO). In response to this news a Scottish coalition has come together to make…