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 confirmedBreaking the silence
Michael Pooler discovers how former IDF soldiers are opening up about life in the occupied territories.
Palestine’s wandering poet After the flotillaA 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 DublinIt’s possible, it’s necessary
Antonio David Cattani reviews Ours to Master and to Own by Immanuel Ness and Dario Azzellini (eds)
The pursuit of the good In the revolutionary warm-streamCrowd 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
We are winning – so what do we want? More reflections from a Wall Street Occupier.
“Walking off the job is the only way to express our anger” An electrician explains why he and his colleagues feel so angry about the imposition of new contracts.
Thoughts of a Wall St. occupier With the occupation of Wall St now in its third week, occupier Yotam Marom shares his thoughts
this week's most-read
- The 99% Occupy Wall Street!
- The assault on public services - how can the unions fightback?
- Breaking the silence
- Thoughts of a Wall St. occupier
- 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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