It was said recently that South Africa was going to lead Africa into a nuclear revolution. After having wasted billions on research into the matter and with our inability to pay for our own brand-new (cheaper-than nuclear) coal power stations without indebting our children to the World Bank, are we really going to charge off northwards and convince poorer countries than us to pay for exorbitant electricity that they might not need and aren’t able to distribute?
Jaitapur: a new nuclear folly
16 August 2011, byThe Fukushima disaster has highlighted the fact that insecurity is inherent to nuclear energy. It is quite simple not possible to predict all the technical or human malfunctions or the outbursts of nature.
Protest in the face of Syria’s tanks
15 August 2011, byThe regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is carrying out a bloody offensive against the four-month-old popular uprising in the hopes of dealing it a lethal blow at the beginning of the monthlong celebration of Ramadan, the Muslim holy month.
The Arab revolutions in perspective
13 August 2011, by ,This interview with Gilbert Achcar was conducted by Yvan Lemaitre, and published in the newspaper of the French New Anticapitalist Party (Nouveau Parti anticapitaliste; NPA) on 28 July 28 2011.
Sacrificing the earth on the altar of politics
11 August 2011, byAgainst a backdrop of mounting evidence of climate change, Chris Williams, author of Ecology and Socialism : Solutions to Capitalist Ecological Crisis, http://www.haymarketbooks.org/pb/Ec... examines why we need an environmental movement independent of both major parties in the United States.
Why we need a living wage campaign
10 August 2011, byThe ideologues of business have started a systematic and sustained campaign against the wages and the laws that protect workers. The job crisis is central to their campaign and deregulation is their leading mantra.
Neo-liberalism in Britain reaps what it sows
10 August 2011, by ,The first year of David Cameron’s Conservative–led coalition in Britain was marked by austerity; increased inequality; rapid impoverishment of millions of people; corruption in the media, police and politicians and destruction of public services. Its second year looks set to be marked by massive industrial action and open conflict with the state in the poorest parts of British cities by the people with least to lose. That is the significance of the riots that have been taking place across Britain in early August.
Stand against fascism and imperialism, stand with the revolutionary Arab masses
9 August 2011, byOn August 2nd, 2011 a sit-in was called in-front of the Syrian embassy in Beirut at 8:00 pm in support of the syrian revolution. Around 50 independent activist and leftist gathered at the embassy, in 10 minutes time, groups of pro-Assad supporters (which included members of the Syrian Baath Party and Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP)) gathered as a counter sit-in and stood at the gates of the embassy.
A crisis without end
8 August 2011, byAs this article was being completed, two major crises shook capitalism and made the stock markets plunge: the sovereign debt crisis in Europe, together with the debt ceiling cliff-hanger in the United States. It is probable that the governments concerned will resolve these crises, on the brink of disaster. However, three years after the crisis broke out, these serious tensions show that it is far from being resolved and its bill, after having been issued to the public budgets, is now being presented to the people. The aim of this article is to survey the recent trajectory of capitalism and examine its implications for the period opened by the crisis.
Defeat to the corrupt, oppressive battalions of Mahinda
6 August 2011, byBreivik, the Norwegian terrorist proved what we were attempting to establish for a long period that is that terror is a method which can be utilized by either the left or the right. There are many including Kumar the cricketer, who believe that any terror action should be connected to some sort of communism. Sure, Breivik thought himself to be a revolutionary, but he is a committed anti-communist.