Following the unprecedented step of the European Commission tabling legislation for the Financial Transaction Tax, David Hillman explains why taxing the financial sector has never been so important and why success may only be a few months away.
Left blocked Los indignados: the emerging politics of outrage
Healthy alternatives
Colin Leys looks at how Scotland and Wales have rejected marketising the NHS
Making sense of the ‘pause’ in the health bill The worst fears confirmed‘War is a racket’: Lessons of 9/11
Ross Eventon discusses the shortcomings of media comment on the last decade of US empire
Libya: Here we go again A vicarious potencyA glasnost moment?
There is great potential for a real transformation in the British media and politics, writes Sarah-Jayne Clifton
Political designs for our times Activism 3.0The assault on public services – how can the unions fightback?
Canadian trade unionists Michael Hurley and Sam Gindin propose new strategies for a labour movement facing new challenges.
Organising ourselves Big Society brings little aid
Bristol has a progressive social fabric that sustains radical thinkers, artists and activists. Dan Iles shows us round
Copenhagen: Something radical in the state of Denmark Radical road round DublinThe pursuit of the good
Peter McMylor considers Alasdair MacIntyre's classic After Virtue: a study in moral theory, first published in 1981
In the revolutionary warm-stream Flower powerCrowd allowed
Siobhan McGuirk on the way inspiring new documentary Just Do It was made
Film review: Unwrapping the drugs debate From kitchen sink to fish tankGil Scott-Heron: Speakin’ for a whole generation
Steve Pretty looks at the musical and political life of the poet
Illegal Art: Recreating records Craft workBangladesh: Forty years free
Photographs from Bangladesh’s 1971 struggle for independence
Kanaval: Mardi Gras in a Haitian town
Ed Miliband's speech had little to say on the unions. Hilary Wainwright urges the Labour leader to embrace a newly political trade unionism
Jeremy Hardy thinks… about Ed Miliband Being led by EdAudio: Science roundtable
Listen to Red Pepper’s roundtable on science, corporates and democracy.
Out of the laboratory Jeremy Hardy thinks… about genesRelax: alternative hedonism and a new politics of pleasure
Kate Soper on re-imagining fulfllment
The revival – and the retreat – of the state? After the springSouth Africa: Power to the people
Bobby Peek tells how the struggle for environmental rights is intertwined with the one over access to energy
Voices from the Tunisian Revolution Dispatches from TunisiaRitz justice
A bill going through parliament threatens to make access to justice a right available only to the rich. Jon Robins reports
Justice as rough as ever Big Society brings little aid
The 99% Occupy Wall Street! Pham Binh welcomes the rising tide of support for the occupation
Rebellious Media: History gives us hope Tim Gee looks ahead to this weekend's Rebellious Media Conference by telling the story of a radical newspaper from the past.
Video: The true cost of the Afghanistan war This video charts the rising costs in billions of pounds - and human lives
this week's most-read
- Rebellious Media: History gives us hope
- The 99% Occupy Wall Street!
- The assault on public services - how can the unions fightback?
- A revolutionary without a revolution
Hilary Wainwright
Refounding the politics of labour
Mike Marqusee
This is what Swazi democracy looks like
Jeremy Hardy
Jeremy Hardy thinks… about Ed Miliband
Edible treasures: foraging for food
Forget plastic packaging – foraging can be sustainable and fun, writes Sophie Haydock
The bankers’ friend
Who controls the taxpayer-owned bailed out banks? Michael Moran and Karel Williams investigate
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