Monday, January 31, 2011

Caroline Lucas shocked by the killings in Egypt

Caroline Lucas, leader of the Green Party, and Green MP for Brighton Pavilion, said: "I have been shocked by the brutal response by the Mubarak government to the pro-democracy protests, including police violence that has used tear gas bombs, rubber and plastic bullets, and diluted mustard gas."The Government-led shutdown of telecommunications across the country also raises serious questions about

Gamal Muburak spotted in London

Much of the UK media coverage has been embarrassing, riots, fundamentalists, tourists and falling markets.Al Jazeera is in contrast really inspiring, all about Egyptian people (not a faction) democratically organizing for change.This is a London based story, President's son spotted in our neck of the woods.

Egyptian workers form new union

The TUC has received the following press release from the independent trade union organisation CTUWS, whose website has been blocked by the Egyptian government as part of the repression of dissent in Egypt.Press ReleaseDate: Sunday, 30 January 2011Today, representatives of the Egyptian labor movement, made up of the independent Egyptian trade unions of workers in real estate tax collection, the

Sunday, January 30, 2011

Rapper Keny Arkana - Tribute to the Egyptian people

Listen and repost!

'Walk like an Egyptian' police pepper spray UK Uncut activists

The Police here seem very similar to the police in Egypt!The video is from F for philistine, she notedI saw at least 7 people who had been sprayed in the eyes including a journalist, with three men particularly badly affected. One protesters had contact lenses in, which reacted with the spray. If you’ve never been tear-gassed before, it’s horrific. You can’t see, you’re in extreme amounts of

José María Arguedas is our flag in the war for our planet and against the capitalists!

Here in Peru, from the days of San Martin, we have always been ruled by foreigners. We have never been anything but the servants of aliens."The foreigners are like rapists. They promise everything until they have had their ways, then they beat and scorn their victims. And now, today, the foreigners’ bastard children roll over and beg to be violated, themselves! I tell you, their ‘sophistication’

Egyptian Army arrests Interior Minister Habib Al Adly?

The Egyptian Army has just issued a statement that it has arrested Interior Minister Habib Al Adly and NDP strongman Ahmad Ezz.This suggest that the Army is backing the people and about to over throw Muburak, looks like very good news.The Army is refusing so far to fire on the people.In contrast the police are killing people, over 200 so far and have been causing chaos such as looting so as to

GEORGE GALLOWAY EGYPTIAN UPRISING MEETING IN LONDON

WEDNESDAY 2 FEBRUARY 7PMSOLIDARITY WITH THE EGYPTIAN UPRISINGCONWAY HALL, RED LION SQUARE, LONDON WC1R 4RLSPEAKERS INCLUDE: George Galloway, Dina Makram - Ebeid, John Rees, Bernard Regan Egypt has been a cornerstone of the US "war on terror" and America's strategy for dominating the Middle East. Not for nothing is Egypt second only to Israel in the amount of US aid it receives, including $1.3

Scenes from the Egyptian Revolution video please repost!

Please repost Tamer Shaaban's video!: “Violent clashes between police and demonstrators as over ten thousand gather on the streets of Cairo. The Egyptian people have endured a tyrant’s rule for far too long, millions struggle each day to find where their next meal is coming from. January 25th, 2011 marks the day when the people rise and take back what’s rightfully there’s. This isn’t the end, but

Saturday, January 29, 2011

Aaron Porter chased away by angry Egyptians

Well actually students in the UK...People like Aaron Porter are the lowest of the low.It works like this loyal New Labour activists are fast tracked to be Presidents of the National Union of Students.Few students vote directly for them, its all sewn up by the most right wing members of Labour Clubs at student unions at a local level.They do nothing much for students and for their loyalty they

URGENT MESSAGE FROM EGYPT

URGENT MESSAGE FROM EGYPT: (re-post if you can)To all the people of worldThe people in Egypt are under governmental siege. Mubarak regime is banning Facebook, Twitter, and all other popular internet sites Now, the internet are completely blocked in Egypt. Tomorrow the government will block the 3 mobile phone network will be completely blocked. And there is news that even the phone landlines will

Friday, January 28, 2011

President Mubarak still in Egypt.

Magazine "Akhbar Al Arab" is reporting Egyptian President Mubarak has left Egypt on a private jet headed for London.However he has now appeared on TV (could be in London though!).Still looks like the regime is tottering....

Majority of NSSN Officers resign en-bloc

 At a meeting immediately following Saturday 22nd January's NSSN anti-cuts conference, the majority of NSSN/Shop Stewards Network national officers-all of those not in the Socialist Party- have resigned. This is the statement of four of these officers: Dave Chapple, Bob Archer, George Binette and Becca Kirkpatrick: “1.We are all NSSN national officers. We have decided that we cannot continue to

Live coverage of a revolution unfolding

Live coverage from Al Jazeera here http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/Tony Blair et al just love dictators when they tortured in the interest of a US or UK elite, nice to see the bad guys losing in one North African country after another.In an age of social media the multitude are no longer going to let themselves be dominated by the mafia.

Bolivians Ask British Government to Respect Their Coca (Derek Wall/Alborada.net)

“It is said that the virgin Mary chewed on the coca as she lamented the loss of her son leaving her teeth marks on the back of the Coca…”Bolivian Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca visited Britain on 20 January, as part of a tour of European Union countries, to lobby the British ConDem government to support Bolivia's amendment to the 1961 UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs.At present, due to

Thursday, January 27, 2011

New study finds fear of clowns is far from irrational.

Britain is just as thick with secret police as Tunisia or Egypt, protest and you are in the spotlight. This is an excellent article from Solomon Hughes. Hoping someone will out the MI5 people in political parties and the infiltration of environmental groups by private security, then there is the back door secret state control of the mass media.Think you are in a democracy, well think again, its

Farid Bakht for Mayor!

I am pleased my friend Farid is seeking the Green Party nomination for London Mayor, people tend to vote for incumbents so I expect Jenny Jones is likely to win but I think Farid for a number of reasons would raise the game for the Green Party, he has the personality to make a splash against Boris and Ken.Please like his facebook 4Mayor site hereAnd take a look at his carbon politics blog.The

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

JAY-Z: The Roots of Rap

[col. writ. 1/17/11] (c) '11 Mumia Abu-Jamal For a rapper to write a book, a straight-ahead prose text, is unusual. For they think in rhymes, couplets, metaphors and beats. When books do appear, they are often those dreadful 'as told to' pieces, less written than dictated, more hustle than work of art or deep thought. Jay-Z has produced the former. An MC of almost legendary

James Haywood interview, sweep away Aaron Porter build the movement!

I get criticised along the lines of 'Dr Wall only really takes serious notice if an event is happening in Habana, the Peruvian Amazon or Caracas'.Point taken, companeros...So I have been putting some energy into seeking out the movers and shakers of the English revolution and buying them a pint or a cafe con leche...Today I met up with James Haywood, who is a sabbatical at Goldsmiths College and

‘We can't save capitalism and save the planet’

I am writing regularly for Green Left Weekly, this is my review of a great new book on green politics and ecosocialism.United States activist Chris William’s new book, published by Haymarket Press, is an excellent introduction to ecology and socialism. It is well written and, despite being a long-time ecosocialist activist, I learnt a lot from it. Williams is a professor of physics and chemistry

Monday, January 24, 2011

'Keep your truncheon in your trousers!'

Women blockaded the Met HQ today as a protest against the sexual abuse of women by undercover police agents.Such abuse is a weapon used to disrupt protest, a means of social control.Organiser Sophie Stephens said: "It's time for the abuse of women by undercover police officers to stop. If a person is pretending to be somebody else, if they are spying on you, then you absolutely cannot give your

Adrian Ramsay speaks on Green economics at the LSE this wednesday

Adrian Ramsay, the Deputy Leader of the Green Party, will be speaking at the London School of Economics this Wednesday, 26th January, at an event hosted by the LSE Green Party Society. His topic will be 'Green economics and the Coalition cuts', and will be taking place at 6.30pm in room 2.06 in the New Academic Building, which is at the south-west corner of Lincoln's Inn Fields. Non-LSE students

Sunday, January 23, 2011

Green Party brings down government and triggers General Election

The Irish Green Party have just left the Fianna Fail government, triggering a snap General Election.When they first went into government, I insisted that the Green Party of England and Wales not congratulate them on this.I was aware that Fianna Fail were a party wrapped up in corrupt land deals and I felt it was very wrong for Greens to support a government pushing through a motorway at Tara,

'Pimps and Economists'

Closet idealistsBaldheaded realistsRastas and bikersThe voice on the phonePimps and economistsRoyalty and communistsRioters and pacifistsPersons unknownMORE LYRICS HEREThe Poison Girls were a British anarcho-punk band, at one point a part of that scene around Crass. The female singer, Vi Subversa, wrote songs that kicked patriarchy in the teeth, bringing the kind of punk energy associated with "

Saturday, January 22, 2011

'They come at us because we are strong'

Excellent and sobering article from Cardiff Anarchists on how 'Marco' made it easier for corporations to abuse animals, people and the environment.Sad but important. I am not an anarchist but we have to work for change together and not let them divide and rule us, a lot of good committed people are anarchists and you certainly need a libertarian (but not market libertarian) approach to things.

Memo to Mervyn King: Pick up the phone and call Caroline Lucas….

Derek Wall is former Principal Speaker of the Green Party. He keeps a regular blog from an eco-socialist perspective at Another Green World whilst regularly contributing to the Morning Star.Monetary policy is essential. Since 1997 the UK economy has been run primarily not by the government but by the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England. Nine men and even sometimes a women meet

Who is Joan Rivers?

My son Vince just asked me 'Who is Joan Rivers?' 'Well hijo, have a look at wiki!'Most of her brilliant stuff is probably too obscene for this time of the morning and she can be so sharp I would be worried by people getting paper cuts on this blog from some of her videos.This is pretty funny and disturbing though.And I guess you have picked up on her being banned by Fox for saying of their poster

Friday, January 21, 2011

Fidel Castro 'biofuels fuelling new food crisis'

On a good day Fidel, is so good, in his 80s a first class ecosocialist putting Marxism right way up, I salute you commandante. Seriously very very nice to get this stuff hot off the translating team....gracias comrades!Reflections by Comrade FidelTHE TIME HAS COME TO DO SOMETHINGThe problems have suddenly taken shape now, through the phenomena that are being repeated on every continent: heat

Thursday, January 20, 2011

Joan Rivers interview banned by 'politically correct' Fox TV

Exit Alan Johnson, Enter Balls

Alan Johnson probably should have resigned as Chancellor because he simply knew nothing about economics.Ed Balls, has form as a minister deeply interested and concerned with the economy.But neo-liberalism is just going to offer financial catastrophe, inequality and ecological collapse.Rising oil prices and commodities like cotton disrupted by extreme weather events are pushing up inflation.I am

Caroline Lucas says we need to go on war footing

BRITAIN NEEDS A "WAR FOOTING" TO TACKLE CLIMATE CHANGE AND ENERGY CRISIS. The New Home Front is launched by Green MP Caroline Lucas, with a report written by Andrew Simms, Fellow of nef (new economics foundation) and author of The New Economics. Along with experts on climate change, food and community organisation, the new initiative looks at how Britain finally mobilised in the approach to World

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Police ask university authorities to spy on students planning protest

"I would be grateful if in your capacity at your various colleges that should you pick up any relevant information that would be helpful to all of us to anticipate possible demonstrations or occupations, please forward it onto me," the email read. According to a statement by the Met, the email sent to more than 20 higher education centers in London, including King's and Imperial College, “advises

Caroline Lucas is on list of domestic extremists

I haven't checked to see if I am on the list, I suspect that suspected members ofthe Taliban will be far fewer than vegans.National Public Order Intelligence unit database of "domestic extremists" accordingto one of the UK's major newspapers, which has contacted the Green Partyprivately about the matter.Responding today, Caroline said: "I wouldn'tbe surprised if my name was on the list. Anybody

When 'Nut' Ain't Enough

[col. writ. 1/11/11] (c) '11 Mumia Abu-Jamal The recent massacre in Tucson, Arizona has shone an unflattering light on America in the 21st century. What makes this event remarkable though, is not that it happened, but who it happened to. Consider: If the victims were average people, instead of a congressperson and a judge (among others), would you know the name of the shooter? Would it

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

First London Screening 'Secrets of the Tribe'

This tribe seemed to be the ultimate bounty in terms of career-making studies within anthropology and this has created extreme competition and bitchy infighting among the academics. The politics of anthropology is, unsurprisingly, not something I’m overly familiar with and it’s surprising just how catty and backstabbing they are amongst themselves. It even goes beyond the point of who has the

Big coal caused big floods in Australia, according to Bob Brown

Coal barons should help pay for catastrophes - BrownMedia Release Sunday 16th January 2011 The full tax on excess profits by the coal mining industry, as recommended by Treasury, should be imposed with half set aside for future natural catastrophes in Australia, Greens Leader Bob Brown said in Hobart today. "It is unfair that the cost is put on all taxpayers, not the culprits," Senator Brown said

Share more! Shut down the condems not the library

So why are common repositories of freely accessible resources, such as libraries, still important? Eco-socialist Derek Wall argues that ‘sharing provides a way of restoring economics to its original promise as a science that finds ways of matching scarce resources with unlimited human wants’. He says that, in its simplest form, it can ‘give prosperity without wrecking the global environment. If

Sunday, January 16, 2011

Beyond Resistance

A World to Win film on fighting the cuts and building an ecological commons based society, inspiring stuff!

Flesh and Blood

Really like 'Flesh and Blood' about 3.33 minutes in, nice rap!'scritti politti' means 'political writing' reference to Tony Gramsci I think

UK Uncut action report from Lee Massey

Today in Londons’ busy Oxford Street, around 50 protesters from the group UK Uncut, turned up outside the Vodafone store to protest about the alleged non payment of a £6billion tax bill. The group conducted many speeches and chants through a megaphone and eventually managed to get the store to close.Dr. Derek Wall, who is a lecturer at Goldsmiths College teaching Political Economy said “I think

Saturday, January 15, 2011

Indigenous killed for nuclear power?

Added attraction for Liberal Democrat support for nuclear power, mining the uranium kills poor and indigenous people.Funny how the Liberal Democrats reversed their policy on nuclear power, I bet there are thousands of Liberal Democrat activists up and down the country having a good laugh at the suckers who voted for them.Any way this a shocking story that I suspect both Nick Clegg and the

Join me for some Direct Action Tax Collection

Meet me at 1pm today, (Saturday) 15th January outside the Vodafone at 350 Oxford Street near Bond Street tube station, I am going to be asking them to pay their tax bills to the British public.MORE DETAILS

Friday, January 14, 2011

The Open Veins of Ireland slit by Eamonn Ryan.

I often think fondly of my good comrades in Donegal and Wicklow!My good friend, originally from Dublin, Joseph Healy alerted me to this film 'The Pipe' about how Shell assaulted Ireland.Joseph sagely notes:Well worth watching the documentary ‘The Pipe’ which tells the story of Shell and the pipeline in the West of Ireland. Green Energy Minister, Eamonn Ryan, has presided over the criminalisation

Response to RSCG PR to 'indigenous' allegations

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Euro RSCG London appears to have been caught "red-...": Euro RSCG PR is unaware of the alleged telephone conversation as reported by EnviroLeaks regarding Amazonian tribes. We are taking this very seriously and are investigating the allegations. This alleged point of view does not reflect the high ethical standards to which we consistently operate as

Liberal Democrat lose Oldham, would have won with AV

Labour: 14,718 (42.1%)Lib Dems: 11,160 (31.9%)Conservatives: 4,481 (12.8%)UKIP: 2,029 (5.8%)BNP: 1,560 (4.5%)Green Party: 530 (1.5%)Monster Raving Loony Party: 145 (0.4%)English Democrats: 144 (0.4%)Pirate Party: 96 (0.2%)Bus Pass Elvis Party: 67 (0.1%)Pretty clear Lib Dems would have won with AV!Modest Green Party vote but then we don't tend to do well at parliamentary by-elections.

Thursday, January 13, 2011

Euro RSCG London appears to have been caught "red-handed"

A representative of the London-based PR firm Euro RSCG London appears to have been caught "red-handed" stating that his company is prepared to help relocate Uncontacted Indigenous Peoples in Bolivia to make way for an open cast lithium mine. According to this transcript of a telephone call with an anonymous caller, first published on the Enviroleaks ...Continue Reading: http://

A lovely tree is just lumber for Nick Clegg

Government plans are appalling. In the same way the International Monetary Fund has insisted that to pay debt countries in the south of the globe have had to sell assets and turn rainforests into logged cash cows, our government is selling everything it can lay its hands on. Britain is for bond traders and other species of finance capitalist.Resistance is absolutely vital. And there is a rich

Archbishop accuses Irish Green Party of 'corruption' and calls for social revolution

‘Somehow the Greens managed to do a complete turnaround and stabilise the Fianna Fáil government, and they have stayed there through thick and thin. It’s a very sad thing. It’s not just true of the Green Party, but it is very true of them, power tends to corrupt.’ Dr Neill is also ‘very sad’ at how our sovereignty was ‘diminished in the economic field’ by the IMF/ECB bailout. ‘We are in a mess.

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Sting accused of green wash

Career in perpetual artistic decline the first Police singles were quite good but down hill after that.Likewise green wise, it started with a fund raising record for the Ecology Party and has since gone into the usual eco excesses identified by Paxman.Bet Paxo flies around the word, eats huskies and leaves his heating on.....oh we must get beyond lifestyle but I do find Sting a bit green in the

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Open Letter from Bob Crow: Unit to fight the cuts or face destruction

AN OPEN LETTER IN A PERSONAL CAPACITY FROM RMT GENERAL SECRETARY BOB CROW TO THE NATIONAL SHOP STEWARDS NETWORK AND SOCIALIST PARTYDear Brothers and Sisters,I am writing to urge maximum unity in the struggle against the Coalition government’s austerity programme.Such is the scale of the onslaught against our class that no one should be in any doubt of the need for such unity.There can be no

Eye witness report from killer gold mine in Colombia

Colombia Solidarity Campaign London Branch meeting Report back from Cajamarca – the fight to stop AngloGold AshantiEyewitness account from two Campaign members just back from the region7pm Tuesday 18 January at The Apple Tree pub, 45 Mount Pleasant, WC1 (Russell Square, Farringdon, Kings X or Angel tube)AngloGold Ashanti is ploughing ahead with the exploration phase of La Colosa in

When academics lie, people die.

The field of anthropology goes under the magnifying glass in a fiery investigation of the seminal research on Yanomami Indians, also known as the 'Fierce People'. In the 1960s and 70s, a steady stream of anthropologists filed into the Amazon Basin to observe this 'virgin' society untouched by modern life. Thirty years later, the events surrounding this infiltration have become a scandalous tale

Monday, January 10, 2011

Political violence is American as the Baked Alaska

There has been huge shock over the shooting of Arizona Congresswomen Gabrielle Giffords and the accompanying killing of six people, including a nine year old girl and a judge, this weekend.Many commentators on what passes for the US left have pointed to incitement from former Republican Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin, who used the slogan ‘”Don’t retreat, reload.” and produced a map with

Former high profile Labour activist says vote Green in Oldham

John Nicholson, who used to be Labour deputy leader of Manchester City Council, has called on voters in this weeks Oldham by-election to vote Green.I would echo this not just cos I am Green but Peter Allen the candidate is a good amigo and a principled ecosocialist a strong green vote would really stick it to those neo-liberal democrats as well and give Phil Woolas's nasty escapades it would be

Sunday, January 9, 2011

Climate trial collapses after police infiltrator unmasked

Good news but remember if you do good the cops will infiltrate your organisaton.Today’s trial against six people charged with conspiracy to shut down Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station in 2009 will collapse on its first day at Nottingham Crown Court. Activists exposed that an undercover police officer had been spying on them for seven years, and had actually helped organise the proposed

Jerry Hicks backs left candidates for Unite NEC, list here

Proud to have Jerry as a comrade, please spread the word, he achieved a lot coming second as an explicitly socialist candidate for Unite General Secretary and he is a good friend of greens and ecosocialists.Jerry Hicks : Re: Election for Unite National Executive Committee [NEC] Please feel free to forward. Can I again convey a massive thank you for your support in our campaign for General

Greens go Orange!

just got this, from London Guantánamo CampaignThe London Guantánamo Campaign [1] will hold a silent vigil to mark the 9th anniversary of the opening of Guantánamo Bay on Tuesday, 11 January 2011, from 1-2pm, at the top of Trafalgar Square (opposite the National Gallery). All London MPs and MEPs have been invited. Green London Assembly Members Jenny Jones and Darren Johnson have pledged their

'strongly desired'

Sometimes I feel submerged in a blog/web/twitter world of 'progressives' who want what we have but without the sharp edges.I want something else. I want a world that works....what we have does not work, its the locomotive heading towards the abyss....progressives simply want us to pay less for a train ticket to hell.Utopia needs to be made real and practical.This is from my good friend Michel

Saturday, January 8, 2011

A GREEN PARTY PACT FOR ELECTORAL POWER

This is from Philip Hosking of the Cornish Republican blog, I am very pleased to have this an important debate to be had. Over to Philip, please come along and discuss!Following some comments left on the blog post -Caroline Lucas's New Year Message to Ed Miliband- I've been invited by the author of Another Green World to blog about the success of Europe Ecologie in France. Equally my choice to

Friday, January 7, 2011

UK UNCUT VODAFONE 350 OXFORD ST, SATURDAY

January · 13:00 - 16:00 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Location Outside Vodafone at 350 Oxford Street (near Bond Street tube station) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Created by: Aaron Peters, Sam Halvorsen, Gaius Julius Augustus, Bernard Goyder, Seb Sears, Sarah Gibby, Maham Hashmi-KhanShow all (7)

Lib Dems destroyed in by-election wipe out.

By-election result here.If there are two parties I really hate (for the same reason)at least both are going to be wiped out.The Irish Greens went into coalition with 'corrupt motorway building through prehistoric sites' Fianna Fail...they will lose all their MPs in the spring election in IrelandThe Tories are in government with a big enough majority to out Thatcher Thatcher only because of the

Thursday, January 6, 2011

Wise words from Aaron Peters

Great to get this from Aaron Peters in response to some of his earlier opinions.Caution is important but I would urge people to support Uncut!Hi guys - the article was for a friend, a Tory who needed it for the journal because i can only assume there was a lack of other content. In any case, I was a Labour member from 2005-10 and have now left.That piece in particular was to clarify that every

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

This war is against you!

I remain very emotional about Mumia.Decades on death row for something he didn't do.A green socialist to the core, via his radical ecological perspective, derived from John Africa.A poetic political commentator.If you are a serious human being, concerned about the chaos on our planet, listen to Mumia and repeat his words.Work for this freedom.

Take a look Laurie Penny, Aaron Peters, Richard Seymour et al!

Many of my Latin American comrades like Hugo Blanco have led successful uprisings, makes some one like me on the British (largely ineffective) left quite jealous.What can we learn from Latin America Michael Lebowitz who is Caracas based gave this talk in Greece recently (first part of three).Take a look Laurie Penny, Aaron Peters, Richard Seymour et al!Network Marxism, neither the streets nor the

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

WTF Uncuts Aaron Peters in bed with UCL Tories?

Let us hope that in the period of fiscal authority that will inevitably follow next year‟s general election that the two parties can unite on this most crucial of areas. Mutually agreeing on the necessity of delivering a respect agenda and how to foster higher levels of social capital, self-reliance and working class aspiration, while re- ducing the size of the state, eliminating a „benefits

My neo-liberal nag Nick finished first in dick race!

Yes I nominated Nick Clegg and he won!It’s the most highly anticipated election of the year so far. The votes have been cast; the ballots counted. There were 40 nominations for 38 challengers. But in the end, it wasn’t even close.525 people voted. Of them, 248 gave one of their five preferences to Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg. That’s 47% of voters.MORE HERE

Lowkey: The Rebel MC

Interview with Pablo Navarrete - Levelground.info'We're now at a stage where anything that contradicts too strongly with the main line, or the way they want young people to perceive the world, and the things they want young people to find important, it's not deemed worthy of exploitation. In the UK they very much keep their eyes on America, what American hip hop is saying, and if you look at

'[Sufis] are the real comrades

Beautiful piece of music from Laal, who are huge in Pakistan,This is what Laal say about their song:Laal presents "Meray Dil, Meray Musafir" dedicated to the Birth Centenary of Faiz Ahmed Faiz. The music video is a new interpretation of Faiz's iconic poem "Dil e Man, Musafir e Man". While Faiz wrote this poem about exile, this video explores Marx's concept of alienation within the context of

Monday, January 3, 2011

Dispatches from the frontline of the war on our planet

In this month's Underreported Struggles: Ecuadorian soldiers evict Kichwa community; UN approves two Resolutions from Bolivia; South Dakota oil project near Mato Paha; UN approves two Resolutions from Bolivia Underreported Struggles #45 Members of the Toba Qom community of La Primavera called off a hunger strike after the Argentine government agreed to listen to their demands for justice ...

Mutual attraction

Lenin’s Tomb has condemned the recent advocacy of mutuals and cooperatives on the left. As a hombre who loves to give his Co-op card a good spanking on the trip to buy a Morning Star, some mushrooms and unfeasible quantities of beer, you might expect me to lay into Lenin’s Richard Seymour with abandon.However my feelings are a little more complex.I am sceptical for reasons which are complex but

Pete Postlethwaite RIP

Sad Peter Postlethwaite has died today.Here he talks about 'The Age of Stupid' an excellent film about climate change in which he starred.A lot of stupidity talked about climate change and Pete, who did so much to make us think more, is tragically no longer with us.

Sunday, January 2, 2011

No No No!

If I can't dubstep it innit my revolution

I am told Dubstep is a genre of electronic dance music, originating from Croydon, UK. Its overall sound has been described as "tightly coiled productions with overwhelming bass lines and reverberant drum patterns, clipped samples, and occasional vocals".Mozart may have been the music of Marx for Jean Luc Godard but the sound of street protest in the UK is dubstep.Enjoy!