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MAY 68: Street posters from the Paris Rebellion
Beyond the
Market Economy - socialist solutions for the economic crisis
Conference 24 May
London
Speakers include
John McDonnell MP and Tony Benn
Act to halt climate chaos
- Running a Temperature
- Offsetting your eco-conscience
- The Carbon Connection "an innovative film..."
- Alan & Maia discuss the eco-crisis
- Support our crash programme
Worth a read 
- Making a killing from hunger
- Hunger stalks millions of Americans
- "Nyet" to Wage Dumping: Unions Want to Push Nestlé Out of Russia
- Pro-Israel group's plan to rewrite history on Wikipedia
- Private security firm spied on environmental groups for corporate clients
- US car workers fight 50% pay cut demand
Rights for a 21st
century
democracy
The existing system of government fails to represent the interests of the vast majority of people. Support the campaign for a written constitution for a truly democratic, republican Britain.
External links
- Alternative Energy Bloggers
- Electronic Intifada
- GM Watch
- GRAIN
- Institute of Science in Society
- John McDonnell MP - Another World is Possible
- Statewatch
- Union of Concerned Scientists
- World Resources Institute
- Worldwatch Institute
The momentum of 1968
9 May: The season of celebration of the tumultuous events of 1968 continues in London tomorrow. A World to Win’s new publication 1968 Revolution, analysing the worldwide impact and lessons of those times will be on sale there for the first time. Read more... have your say
8 May: India's farmers resist GM – The Coalition for a GM-free India, representing hundreds of farmers’ unions, environmental and women’s organisations and organic farming groups from 15 Indian states, this week marched in Delhi against the sale and distribution of genetically-modified (GM) crops and seeds. In particular, they are opposed to an experimental type of Bt brinjal (aubergine) recently approved for large-scale field trials.
Check out our previous blogs
Poets rise up against eco-Armageddon
The full spectrum of eco-poetry, from the wilderness of ancient China to 21st-century Native American.
Perfect Blemishes
Menna Elfyn’s latest collection of contemplative, stimulating, visual and thought provoking international poetry.
Queens of the Blue
The rise and fall of the blue stocking women who broke all the rules - now at the National Portrait Gallery.
Cardiff’s trail blazer
Melanie Abrams looks at Artes Mundi, Wales’ biennial contemporary visual arts initiative.
New talent:
the nkr
Dylan Strain interviews the nkr and reviews their debut LP.
Iconic, dramatic and edgy
Vanity Fair portrait show
Zimbabwe
Election controversy spills over into union repression.
Why Stalingrad still matters
What motivated the Red Army defenders to fight and endure against overwhelming odds? A searching book by Michael Jones brings together the testimonies of veterans with newly-opened archives to reveal how leadership was forged in the crucible of battle.
Suicides mount as farm crisis sweeps India
At least 200,000 farmers have killed themselves in India in the last 12 years as governments have imposed policies suited to the global market on poor regions of the country a new report shows.
Urgent! Appeal Denied
Mumia Abu-Jamal faces death penalty or life imprisonment
Free Mumia Now!
Fighting the border regime! Transnationalisation now!
A series of events, protests and actions will take place until October 2008 in various cities and countries all over Europe and beyond: against the border regime, against detentions and deportations, against the exploitation of migrant labour and for legalisation of all migrants.
