Oisín Mac Giollamóir responds to a debate on whether UK capitalism ‘needs’ to make the cuts.

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The mass sacking of 35 trade union organisers at Topy Top, Peru's most profitable textiles exporter, has prompted a callout for worldwide protests against near slave-labour conditions at the firm's factories.

In this talk given at Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting's fifteenth anniversary celebration in New York City on January 23, 2002, Noam Chomsky considers how a journalist sent from Mars would consider the then-government's 'war on terror', which remains ongoing.