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Zombie Nation
Here’s a film by Adam Curtis ‘The Living Dead’ – about how Britain thrives on fictional notions of the past. It’s a powerful reminder of why it’s an irredeemable state. Continue reading
Independence from UKIP?
By Jonathon Shafi Scottish viewers of Question Time, This Week and the local election results in England as they come in could be forgiven for thinking that they have walked Continue reading
Sweet 16
By Michael Bartlet The Ministry of Defence wastes £94 million every year training minors for army roles which could be filled more cost-effectively by adult recruits, says a new report Continue reading
Brutalism of the Iron Lady
By Jamie Maxwell Thatcher managed to unite nationalists and unionists in shared enmity against her. In addition to the death of Margaret Thatcher, last week marked the 15th anniversary of Continue reading
The Patriot Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher: symbol of liberty and strength. Changed Britain and the world for the better. May she rest in peace. – Rupert Murdoch @rupertmurdoch By Mike Small As we enter Continue reading
Watchmen
By Phil Mac Giolla Bháin What do you call a scandal that already has “gate” in the name? “Gallowgategate” doesn’t do it for me, but what happened last Saturday a Continue reading
The Death of Hugo Chavez
The Death of Hugo Chavez By Callum McCormick The announcement of the death of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez provides an opportunity for us to look back on the most important Continue reading
The Reign in Spain
As British bankers criminality under Libor is laid bare Douglas Wilson looks at endemic Spanish corruption. There are so many corruption scandals going on in Spain at present it is Continue reading
Gameboy
“If there’s people trying to do bad stuff to our guys, then we’ll take them out of the game. It’s a joy for me because I’m one of those people Continue reading
Hope is the Rejection of the Status Quo
By Mike Small Here’s the text from Saturday’s Radical Independence Conference #RIC2012 with some of the follow-up responses. I want to talk briefly about how we shift from thinking and Continue reading
Korea Suicide
A Letter from Pyongyang …
Taking Catalonia Forward
By Anna Arqué i Solsona In Catalonia 51 per cent would vote Yes for independence, by latest official polls, in front of a 24 per cent against, however, this ‘YES’ Continue reading
Assange Facts
Due to ongoing media distortion and the inability of the MSM to report this case adequately, we publish this from Occupy London…
Science And The Sixth Of August
By Michael Greenwell I got up early this morning to watch what, from every angle you look at it, was a triumph. However, I am not going to say it Continue reading
Sophie Cooke on Ukraine: Behind the facade of Euro 2012
‘Why don’t you visit Euro 2012 and protest for us?‘ Ukrainian novelist Yuriy Andrukhovych by Sophie Cooke The diamond-encrusted presidential toilet is perhaps the most appropriate symbol of Viktor Yanukovych’s Continue reading
Our Demands are Simple!
Comrades! In the Eurozone and beyond, capitalist crisis deepens. From Greece to Govan the ruling class is imposing brutal austerity. From Mount Olympus to Mount Florida, titanic class confrontations loom. Continue reading
Mayday! Mayday!
Leave details of your Mayday celebrations everywhere anywhere…
Greek Independence
Interview with Liana Kanelli an independent MP elected under the flag of the Greek Communist Party (KKE) for the last twelve years in four consecutive elections. Ms. Kanelli has been Continue reading
A Xmas Letter To A Neoliberal Friend
Dear Friend I totally agree with you that the Arab Spring was the big story of 2011. Toppling dictators means putting your life on the line. That takes guts and, Continue reading
Infinitely Demanding
…we are entering into a period of increasingly massive social dislocations and disorder which harbors within it countless risks, defeats, dangers, false dawns and fake defeats. But…we are all coming Continue reading
Joan McAlpine & Séamas Ó Sionnaigh
This is a guest post by Andrew Anderson following on from Joan McAlpine’s writing on the anti-sectarianism bill and the impact of writing on it, (Sing out for a country Continue reading
Not in My Name
The ceremonies every year on November 11, to mark the anniversary of the end of the First World War in 1918, commemorate the dead but leave no reason for doubt Continue reading
Always got a Line for the Ladies…
We would like to distance ourselves from this sick association. The Tories are waging a war on the disenfranchised. They are the enemy…
Cameron’s White Out
As the leader of the National Front in France congratulated David Cameron on his views on multiculturalism for what she claimed was an endorsement of her party’s views on the Continue reading
Something is rotten in the United States of Amerikkka
The attempted assassination of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was a terrible and cowardly act of homegrown American terrorism which is rightly sending shockwaves throughout the civilised world. It brings to mind the high-profile assassinations of the Kennedy brothers, Martin Luther King Jnr, Malcolm X and many others who opposed the Vietnam War in the 1960s.
Poverty Porn and the Broken Society
By Gerry Mooney and Lynn Hancock We are living in the deepest recession and economic crisis since the 1930s, yet for successive governments and for large sections of the media Continue reading
Jody McIntyre and the Descent of the BBC
By Andrew Hardie Below we show an interview with Jody McIntyre, a disabled protestor who was attacked by the police. The interview borders on the comic as the interviewer seems Continue reading
If You Have a Racist Friend
While we have idiots like Labours Michael McCann, while we have the far-right operating amongst the orange disorder, Sarkozy expelling the Roma and a German leader like Merkel spouting forth, we are in dangerous times. While we remain tied to the racist British State its essential we make clear a different approach. It’s vital that here in Scotland we articulate a progression vision for our country.
English Fascists Jailed
This is interesting given the frequent attempt by some to portray the EDL as a benign force detached from the rest of the fascist and nazi movement in England. The Continue reading
