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Establishment impotence fuels climate denial

Posted on February 18th 2010 | No comments

Capitalism and sustainability do not mix, says James Turley
And it was all looking so rosy for the official green movement. After the low point that followed America’s failure to ratify the Kyoto protocol, and the election in 2000 of president George W Bush, who openly flirted with global warming denial, the tide slowly seemed to [...]

Left in Die Linke loses its Bonaparte

Posted on February 15th 2010 | No comments

The resignation of Oskar Lafontaine is a serious blow to the German left party. Tina Becker reports
Since Die Linke shook the German political scene by achieving a tremendous 11.9% in the national election of September 2009 (leading to the election of 76 of its members to parliament), it has been followed keenly by the German [...]

Quake: no act of god

Posted on January 24th 2010 | No comments
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Millions around the world were appalled at the death and devastation in Haiti. James Turley puts the calamity into context

As readers will know, just before 5pm local time on January 12, a catastrophic earthquake struck Haiti. Its epicentre was very close to Léogâne, a well-populated town not far from the capital, Port-au-Prince.
The tremor is estimated [...]

Theocracy threatens bloodbath as mass movement grows

Posted on January 11th 2010 | No comments

Iranian workers are on the offensive, reports Chris Strafford
2010 has begun the way 2009 ended in the Islamic Republic of Iran, with millions protesting in cities and towns across the country. But the dangers facing the Iranian people have undoubtedly increased over the last few weeks.
Further sanctions are being put in place, and Obama is [...]

Iran: fighting over the corpse

Posted on December 17th 2009 | 1 comment
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As the two wings of the regime continue to squabble, the opposition movement grows in radicalism and confidence, write Chris Strafford of CS and Iranian socialist Yassamine Mather
There seems to be no end to the crisis which has erupted after Iranian state television showed protesters tearing down or burning images of ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini following [...]

Blue wave needs red vision

Posted on December 10th 2009 | No comments
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On Saturday December 5, around 50,000 activists took part in the London ‘blue wave’ demonstration against climate change. Ben Lewis was there

Organised by the Stop Climate Chaos campaign, the protest was conceived as a way of building up pressure on the great and the good assembled for the UN climate summit in Copenhagen. The event [...]

Where now for the Greek working class?

Posted on December 9th 2009 | No comments

Callum Williamson looks at the re-emergence of the struggle in Greece
 On Saturday 6th of December 2008 15 year old anarchist, Alexander Grigoropoulos, was shot dead by police in the Exarhia district of Athens. This was to spark weeks of rioting and the ascendance of a new movement in Greece. With this new movement came a [...]

Obama cannot win in Afghanistan

Posted on October 22nd 2009 | No comments
President Karzai; imperialist stooge

President Karzai; imperialist stooge
The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have conclusively demonstrated a single, simple proposition, writes James Turley: imperialism has no progressive role to play
Following months of foot-dragging and not a little strong-arming from his paymasters abroad, the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, has finally been induced to call a second round of elections after [...]

Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize

Posted on October 19th 2009 | 1 comment
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Joining a rogues’ gallery
Barack Obama is presiding over an escalation of military action in Afghanistan. Despite that, he is a hero for the liberal bourgeoisie, writes James Turley
Fairly soon after Barack Obama’s victory in last year’s presidential elections, there appeared an amusing little website called Bad Paintings of Barack Obama,1 which randomly flashes up canvasses [...]

Reports from Honduras

Posted on October 13th 2009 | No comments

Honduras: Cracks in the ranks of the coup-makers
The Soldiers and police of the coup regime in Honduras continue to attack demonstrators

On Wednesday, September 30, more than 1,000 people demonstrated in Tegucigalpa for the right to free speech. They were protesting against the closure of the radio station Radio Globo and the television station [...]

 
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