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‘Set It All On Fire’: The Answer to Planetary Chaos is Closer Than You Think

Alison Banville — Sun, 05 Dec 2021 23:01:00 +0000

First published in New Dawn magazine: ‘Strange days indeed’ sang John Lennon, and one can only ‘imagine’ what a man at the forefront of creating positive planetary change in his day would have made of where we are now? Because these are indeed extraordinary times in which the very foundations of everything we collectively believed to be ‘how things are’ […]

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Bastard Pandemic v. Bastards

Scott Ludlum — Sun, 29 Mar 2020 19:07:30 +0000

When you want to know how things really work, study them when they’re coming apart.’― William Gibson, Zero History A crisis has its own way of focusing our minds on what matters and what doesn’t. It still feels like such early days and who knows what’s over the edge of this thing, really, but our relationships, our politics, our infrastructure—everything—is facing […]

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The Elites Are Jumping Ship As The Financial Collapse Draws Near

Mac Slavo — Mon, 31 Jul 2017 17:41:39 +0000

Corporate executives have been selling their stocks at an unprecedented rate for several months. Meanwhile, ordinary people are still placing their faith and their bets on a stock market that most experts agree is completely unsustainable.

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Trump protests must see and oppose US crimes in their totality

John Hilley — Fri, 03 Feb 2017 21:02:05 +0000

As global protests continue against Donald Trump, what could be the nucleus of a promising new progressive movement, akin to Occupy, is being compromised by a faux liberal ‘resistance’. It’s been encouraging to see people act in a spirit of intuitive solidarity with Muslims in rejection of Trump’s discriminatory edicts. But, thanks to the liberal media’s veneration of Obama and […]

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Fake News About ‘Fake News’ – The Media Performance Pyramid

Media Lens — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 18:29:16 +0000

In the wake of Brexit and Trump, ‘mainstream’ media have done the formerly unthinkable by focusing on media bias. The intensity of focus has been such that the Oxford Dictionaries have announced that ‘post-truth’ is their ‘Word of the Year 2016’. ‘Post-truth’ refers to ‘circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion […]

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Britain’s Trade and Aid Policies After Brexit – Neo-liberalism Goes Mad

Mark Curtis — Tue, 06 Dec 2016 13:41:26 +0000

Unless there is a serious challenge, Britain is set to increasingly promote a failed model of international trade that will impoverish developing countries still further. It will also likely pursue an aid strategy that supports corporations, neo-liberal economic objectives and wider British foreign policy.

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Neo-Liberalism Under Cover of Racism

Craig Murray — Wed, 16 Nov 2016 01:48:02 +0000

It is indeed peculiar that Trump can be elected President on 47.4% of the popular vote. But not nearly as peculiar as that the Conservatives can have untrammelled power in the UK on 36.9% of the popular vote. Both electoral systems need reform, but the UK’s is absolutely indefensible. There is a tiny blogroll down the bottom right hand margin […]

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From Greenford with love: an interview with the Angry Workers of West London’s warehouses

Angry Workers of the World — Sat, 27 Aug 2016 22:50:26 +0000

libcom.org catches up with the excellent Angry Workers of the World to discuss their ongoing agitation in the West London warehouses and surrounding communities. Some introductory comments from the Angry Workers of the World Dear libcom crew, Thanks a lot for inviting us to be interviewed! The answers to your questions are below, but before we start, we would like […]

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What Next After Brexit?

Steve Keen — Tue, 28 Jun 2016 23:13:57 +0000

The main changes I do expect from Brexit are a long overdue material shift in the power balance away from London and its elite and back to the once working class regions of the UK. These have been the victims of a globalisation that, when it was first championed by Thatcher and then Blair, was supposed to have either no victims at all, or “losers” who could be easily compensated by the “winners”.

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Labour protests continue – French workers fight back!

Gearóid Ó Colmáin — Sun, 29 May 2016 19:28:10 +0000

The spate of strikes throughout France show that working class militancy remains strong. But the labour movement needs to break with class collaboration and social democracy if it is to succeed in advancing the cause of the poor.

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