On July 3rd remember Iran Air 655 and the true meaning of "American Exceptionalism"
libcom.org starts online fundraiser for digitizing old radical publications
Yesterday’s pig heads, Corbyn-mania, Brexit or business as usual: Tragedy and comedy in the UK - A short report
Dear fellow travellers, for an international meeting of like-minded rebels we wrote a short report about the situation in the UK. We had little time recently to systematically follow and discuss the wider developments, therefore it ended up as a bit of a selective cut-and-paste job - but people outside of the UK might still find it interesting.
#SandersofSthBrisbane ? Council elections, social movements & the #RighttotheCity
This is the latest episode of Living the Dream - a podcast I participate in as part of the collective blog The Word From Struggle Street. Here we talk about the local council election and the Right to The City and various challanges and contradictions around local movements and struggles,
GM and Harry Wilson: Corporate raiding in the 21st century
Not just a 'loner': the Jo Cox murder and fascist terrorism
Some notable (IMO) additions to the libcom.org library in May 2016
It’s getting hot in here! Conversations in Gurnell Leisure Centre’s Sauna, Greenford
What we can learn from the US women's soccer team
From Greenford with love: an interview with the Angry Workers of West London's warehouses
libcom.org catches up with the excellent Angry Workers of the World to discuss their ongoing agitation in the West London warehouses and surrounding communities.
The SPEW and me
A brief catalogue of my encounters with the lesser spotted subspecies of the British Trot in the wild. Careful it may bite you.
Beyond White City - Some Snap-Shots on West London Workers' History
The “gig economy”: Some cursory thoughts and link dump
On budget eve: deflation & the limits to privatised Keynesianism
Recent cases highlight the farcical nature of America's "justice" system
Inside the growing tenants movement that is fighting mass displacement
“Power of the grassroots": reflections on a step into alternative education
Portland Renters Confront County Over Rising Rents and Evictions[VIDEO]
When will the lights go out in Venezuela?
The water level of the Guri Reservoir is dropping precipitously in an El Niño drought year and the hydroelectric turbines may have to be shut down as early as May (2016) to avoid destroying the plant. The real problem is that the ten turbines produce some 70% of Venezuela's electricity. It's easy for the Bolivarian government to blame the rolling electrical blackouts currently afflicting the country on the drought, but the real cause is far more complicated...