Running out of road James Turley looks at the G20 and continued US-UK domination Over the weekend, finance ministers and officials from the G20 group of industrialised states met in London, ahead of a summit of G20 leaders in Pittsburgh later this month. The result of the meeting is, to say the least, very telling. The main talking ...
Chris Strafford identifies a virtual split in the ruling class over current police tactics that we should use Following the death of Ian Tomlinson at the April 1 G20 protest, the policing of recent demonstrations has come under close scrutiny. After their initial account of the incident was exposed as clearly false, thanks to the numerous ...
Police thugs randomly searched and brutalised G20 protesters. Chris Strafford reports The G20 summit saw thousands of people protest outside the Bank of England on April 1. The demonstration was called by a variety of groups under the banner of G20 Meltdown. From early on the police had protesters hemmed in a ‘kettle’, which restricted access, compacted the ...
The optimistic notes sounded by world leaders after the G20 summit ring hollow, says James Turley Amid energetic protests, the G20 group of world leaders - representatives from Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States, along ...
Communists must do their utmost to overcome illusions in the potential for capitalism’s top representatives to deliver, writes John Sidwell The past week has seen another financial institution fall by the wayside. This time Scotland’s biggest building society, the Dunfermline. The extent of the crisis beyond the financial sector is also clear. We are dealing with ...
The G20 will not agree on anything substantial, reckons James Turley, but the left has problems too As most on the left will be aware, the G20 - an inter-governmental group comprising representatives of 19 economically powerful countries, with an extra slot for the European Union - meets on April 1. This is a routine meeting, but ...
James Turley writes that we need an internationalist response to the capitalist crisis When the present economic crisis first began to bite, the bourgeois press - and the left - used up a lot of ink discussing how deep it would turn out to be. Would it be as bad as the 1997 Asian financial collapse, ...
Thursday April 2, London : peace and social justice demo at the G20 meeting. Called by Stop the War and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament