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• Will the Euro 2016 Football affect the result of the British EU Referendum?
  on Jun 10, 2016 in Democracy EU Referendum Europe Football Scotland SNP
  The Euro 2016 football tournament kicks off this evening with the host nation, France, playing Romania in the opening game. It should be a celebration of football and bring the nations of Europe together, in what should be a party atmosphere. Let’s...
• Let Them Drown - The Violence of Othering in a Warming World - Naomi Klein
  on Jun 9, 2016 in Capitalism Climate Change Climate Justice corporate death Energy Environment Equality Immigration Imperialism London Naomi Klein Polution socialism War
  Written by Naomi Klein and first published at the London Review of BooksEdward Said was no tree-hugger. Descended from traders, artisans and professionals, he once described himself as ‘an extreme case of an urban Palestinian whose relationship to...
• Boris Johnson’s Opportunism on the EU Referendum is what Turns People off Politics
  on Jun 6, 2016 in corporate Democracy EU Referendum NHS Tories Wages
  Boris Johnson’s recent Damascene conversion to the Brexit cause, is a case study in the kind of cynical behaviour that brings politics into disrepute for many members of the public. Johnson’s record on EU matters is of a broadly Europhile stance,...
• Our Renewable Future
  on Jun 4, 2016 in Climate Change Economics Energy Environment
  Written by Richard Heinberg & David Fridley and first published at CounterCurrents.This is the introduction to Richard Heinberg's and David Fridley's new book, Our Renewable Future, now available from Island Press. Post Carbon Institute's compani...
• Alleged Tory Election Expenses Fraud Should Lead to 33 By-Elections
  on Jun 2, 2016 in Democracy Elections Green Party jail legislation London Police Tories UKIP
  The Independent reports that the judge who has granted Kent police more time to fully investigate the allegations of fraud in the Parliamentary seat of South Thanet, at last year’s general election, said that if it is proven, a by-election would ne...
• Marx’s Ecology and the Left
  on Jun 1, 2016 in Capitalism Climate Change Climate Justice Economics Environment James Bellamy Foster socialism
  Written by John Bellamy Foster and Brett Clark and first published at Monthly ReviewOne of the lasting contributions of the Frankfurt School of social theorists, represented especially by Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno’s 1944 Dialectic of E...
• Capitalism’s Steady March Towards Irreversible Ecological Tipping Points
  on May 30, 2016 in Capitalism Climate Change Environment socialism
  Written by Kelly Reed and first published at Revolutionary EcologyAll of the world’s ecosystems experience small changes on an ongoing basis, but over time have relatively stable characteristics. For example, in a given year a prairie may receive m...
• The EU Referendum Campaign Debate is Dismal
  on May 28, 2016 in Caroline Lucas Democracy Economics EU Referendum Europe Labour Party London SNP
  As we enter the final four weeks of the European Union (EU) referendum campaign, the public must be in despair at the ridiculous arguments espoused by both sides of the debate. Hardly a day passes without one of the camps claiming that the sky will f...
• There could be a General Election this Year
  on May 27, 2016 in Democracy Elections EU Referendum Green Party Jeremy Corbyn Labour Party Tories
  The Guardian reports that the Labour Party leader, Jeremy Corbyn, has ordered an internal party review to make sure that Labour is ready for a snap general election this year. Corbyn has asked a former head of the civil service, Sir Bob Kerslake, to...
• Whatever being English is, Labour’s Tristram Hunt has another Agenda
  on May 24, 2016 in Elections Immigration Jeremy Corbyn Labour Party Trade Unions
  With the publication yesterday of a collection of essays by Labour Party MPs, edited by Tristram Hunt, the former Labour shadow Education spokesperson, entitled Labour’s Identity Crisis, the issue of English nationalism is in the news.The essays gi...

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