http://www.aworldtowin.net/about/ourblogs.html For a future without global capitalism en http://www.aworldtowin.net/images/images60/AWTWlogo.gif http://www.aworldtowin.net 60 67 http://www.aworldtowin.net/blog/momentum-of-1968.html 09 May 2008 09:15:00 GMT 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. http://www.aworldtowin.net/blog/indias-farmers-resist-gm.html 08 May 2008 09:15:00 GMT 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. http://www.aworldtowin.net/blog/point-of-no-return.html 07 May 2008 10:15:00 GMT The crisis within New Labour shows no signs of abating as MPs stare electoral oblivion in the face come the next election. In fact, matters are getting worse. Wendy Alexander, its leader in Scotland, has broken ranks with Gordon Brown’s position on an independence referendum in a bid to steal some votes from the nationalists, while opponents of the abolition of the 10p tax rate are resuming their campaign. These are further indications that New Labour has reached and passed the point of no return. It seems inconceivable they can win the next general election – whatever Brown does. http://www.aworldtowin.net/blog/every-little-helps.html 06 May 2008 10:15:00 GMT Amidst the kerfuffle of Gordon Brown’s humble pie about his “mistakes” over the abolition of the 10p tax rate, and anxiety to help those who face difficulties as a result of rising prices, we should bear in mind a few home truths about the true relation between New Labour and corporate taxpayers. http://www.aworldtowin.net/blog/RIP_New_Labour.html 05 May 2008 10:15:00 GMT The humiliating results for New Labour at last week’s local and London elections amount to much more than just a swing to the Tories by people fed up with government policies. The scale of the defeat is a measure of the break-up of a party that once fondly imagined it would rule for decades. http://www.aworldtowin.net/blog/global-car-crash.html 02 May 2008 10:15:00 GMT Any lingering doubts about the trend towards recession were swept away last night as the world’s vehicle makers announced their April results. Falling off a cliff would sum it up. General Motors sales fell 23%, Ford 19%, and Chrysler nearly 30%. And to make matters worse for the manufacturers, the effect of spiralling fuel prices has shifted sales from high-profit trucks and gas-guzzling SUVs to more fuel-efficient but less profitable models. The idea that a US recession wouldn’t affect the rest of the world also took a beating as Toyota dropped 5% and Nissan 2%. http://www.aworldtowin.net/blog/how-to-make-right-to-vote-count.html 01 May 2008 07:15:00 GMT May Day is international workers’ day, when the labour movement celebrates its social and economic achievements. Winning the right to vote is undoubtedly one of the landmark successes in the history of workers’ struggles against the employing classes and the state. So it is more than a little ironic that May Day in England and Wales coincides with local elections which the majority of the electorate will simply boycott. http://www.aworldtowin.net/blog/profiting-from-food-crisis.html 30 Apr 2008 10:15:00 GMT The world’s major governments are sitting on their hands while the world’s poor face starvation from soaring food prices. This is the stark conclusion to be drawn from the fact that the United Nation’s World Food Programme (WFP) has so far received only £9 million towards closing a £380m funding gap, despite all the fine words from London, Washington and other capitals. http://www.aworldtowin.net/blog/NadineGordimerGazadismay.html 29 Apr 2008 10:15:00 GMT This year Israel is marking the 60th anniversary of its declaration of independence in May 1948, which for the Palestinians immediately became a continuing disaster. Yesterday, for example, Israeli shells killed four children and their mother at their home in Ezbet Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip. Now former anti-apartheid activist and Nobel-prize winning author Nadine Gordimer is accused of lending her support to the oppression of Palestinians by joining in “Israel at 60” events. Gaza lecturer Dr Haider Eid, has written Gordimer an open letter. http://www.aworldtowin.net/blog/coastal-peoples-hit-by-climate-change.html 28 Apr 2008 08:15:00 GMT There is serious doubt whether the majority of people who rely on fishing and other coastal activities for their livelihood can survive the impact of climate change. Millions of coastal refugees could be forced to move inland, at a time when the interiors of continents are becoming hotter and drier. http://www.aworldtowin.net/blog/debt-crisis-behind-grangemouth-strike.html 25 Apr 2008 09:15:00 GMT Members of the Unite trade union at Grangemouth are set for the first strike at an oil refinery for 73 years over pension rights. The dispute brings the potential impact of declining production of oil into sharp focus. The threat of a major impact on availability of fuel in Scotland and the North of England has driven already record prices higher and triggered panic buying as supplies from the North Sea oil and gas field are cut off. http://www.aworldtowin.net/blog/form-alliance-to-defeat-government.html 24 Apr 2008 09:15:00 GMT Today’s strike by teachers, college lecturers and civil servants is an important challenge to the low pay and privatisation agenda that this government is inflicting on workers in the public services. It is the first national strike by teachers in the National Union of Teachers (NUT) for 21 years. For many lecturers in the University and College Union (UCU) and for civil servants in the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) it is the first time that they too have taken industrial action. http://www.aworldtowin.net/blog/new-labours-tame-copper.html 23 Apr 2008 09:15:00 GMT Sir Ian Blair, commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, is New Labour’s favourite copper. Ministers can always rely on him to back the government when others are reluctant to do so. In fact, when it comes to plans to extend pre-trial detention to 42 days, Blair is about the only supporter of substance that they can wheel out. http://www.aworldtowin.net/blog/americas-judicial-murder-machine.html 22 Apr 2008 09:15:00 GMT As the campaign between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton for the Democratic Party presidential ticket comes to a head, it would be well to note that they both support the death penalty just when the gruesome American prison system is gearing up for a slaughter of the mentally ill, people of colour and Hispanics from a poor or working class background, not to mention the downright innocent. http://www.aworldtowin.net/blog/another-fix-for-debt-junkies.html 21 Apr 2008 10:15:00 GMT The true nature of New Labour doesn’t come clearer than this. If you are a low earner, New Labour says you should pay more tax. But if you are a banker, government hand-outs are the order of the day. So prime minister Brown is “standing firm” over the abolition of the 10% tax band, which reduces the incomes of five million people, while his chancellor is today helping out the major banks to the tune of £50 billion. http://www.aworldtowin.net/blog/real-costs-of-price-of-oil.html 18 Apr 2008 10:15:00 GMT The price of a barrel of oil reached and passed $115 yesterday. It has doubled in a year. As the price of oil goes up so must everything else, as everything that is produced, distributed and consumed depends on it in some way. The higher the price of oil goes, the deeper will be the global economic slump. http://www.aworldtowin.net/blog/climate-change-hits-water-cycle.html 17 Apr 2008 10:15:00 GMT Global warming has already brought about significant changes to what is known as the hydrological cycle, warns an authoritative new report on climate change and water. The International Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) stark assessment comes as the major economic powers refuse to take action to cut carbon emissions and, in Britain’s case, are actually allowing them to rise. http://www.aworldtowin.net/blog/italy-at-crossroads.html 16 Apr 2008 10:15:00 GMT The election of billionaire Silvio Berlusconi as prime minister of Italy for the third time brings together an extreme right-wing coalition at a time of severe economic problems for the country, even before the global credit crunch hits home. These conditions are certain to create a nationalist-racist, authoritarian regime and, at the same time, deepen the crisis of a decrepit and corrupt Italian parliamentary state. http://www.aworldtowin.net/blog/german-student-revolt.html 15 Apr 2008 10:15:00 GMT Forty years ago today, students demonstrated in Berlin following the attempted assassination of their revolutionary leader, Rudi Dutschke. After narrowly surviving the attack, he and his family later took refuge in Britain, only to be expelled by the Heath government as “undesirable aliens” in 1971. http://www.aworldtowin.net/blog/meltdown-hits-new-labour.html 14 Apr 2008 10:15:00 GMT The turmoil in global financial markets is now reflecting itself as paralysis and confusion in the minds and actions of politicians, amid opposition from bankers to their plans for more regulation. Most significantly, the crisis is also finding a strong echo in the opinions of voters, especially in Britain where confidence in the Brown government has plunged to a record low. http://www.aworldtowin.net/reviews/Stalingrad.html 11 Apr 2008 14:30:00 GMT 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. http://www.aworldtowin.net/frontline/Indianfarmersuicides.html 11 Apr 2008 13:30:00 GMT regions of the country a new report shows. http://www.aworldtowin.net/reviews/MennaElfyn.html 11 Apr 2008 12:30:00 GMT Menna Elfyn’s latest collection of contemplative, stimulating, visual and thought provoking international poetry. http://www.aworldtowin.net/reviews/EllenGraubart.html 11 Apr 2008 12:30:00 GMT In her passage from the real to the ideal, Ellen Graubart sets up rules in order to break them again. http://www.aworldtowin.net/reviews/bluestocking.html 11 Apr 2008 12:30:00 GMT The rise and fall of the blue stocking women who broke all the rules - now at the National Portrait Gallery. http://www.aworldtowin.net/blog/food-prices-revolt-grows.html 11 Apr 2008 10:15:00 GMT Governments across the globe are being shaken by mass protests, as people take to the streets demanding lower food prices. According to the World Bank, increases in global wheat prices reached 181% over the 36 months leading up to February 2008, and overall global food prices increased by 83%. The UN says the price of rice has soared by 75% in just two months. http://www.aworldtowin.net/blog/imf-predicts-unpredictable.html 10 Apr 2008 10:15:00 GMT Headline reports of the stark admissions, predictions and warnings in the two latest reports from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) literally overshadow the impact of the developing financial and economic crisis on the world’s population. A third report, also released this week, for the weekend spring meetings of the central bankers and finance ministers has been almost universally ignored. http://www.aworldtowin.net/blog/housing-market-misery.html 09 Apr 2008 10:15:00 GMT The morbid concern over the sharp fall in house prices in March not only expresses middle-class obsession with property values. It is also graphically illustrates how the market economy in housing results in gross distortions. In human misery terms, it means growing numbers of repossessions, more homelessness, overcrowding, extortionate rents and children denied the space to grow up or do their homework. http://www.aworldtowin.net/blog/help-i-could-lose-my-seat.html 08 Apr 2008 10:15:00 GMT If some New Labour MPs are suddenly concerned about how Gordon Brown’s tax changes benefit the well off at the expense of low earners, it is not because for the most part they have suddenly developed a political conscience. Their real worry - panic is probably a better expression - is about whether they can retain their seats, along with their comfortable, expenses-paid, two-house, lifestyle, at the next general election. http://www.aworldtowin.net/blog/put-this-olympic-torch-out.html 07 Apr 2008 10:15:00 GMT Former Blue Peter presenter Konnie Huq no doubt summed up many people’s feelings after a protester tried to grab the Olympic flame from her yesterday. She valued the Olympic ideals but also condemned the “despicable” nature of the Chinese government’s role in Tibet. The Chinese Olympic organisers may well have lost control of the script for the flame, but they are still in charge of China and will get on with murdering Buddhist monks in Tibet and killing and jailing dissidents at home. http://www.aworldtowin.net/blog/martin-luther-kings-unfinished-business.html 04 Apr 2008 10:15:00 GMT Martin Luther King, who was assassinated 40 years ago today in Memphis, where he was supporting a strike of low-paid municipal workers, is more often than not characterised as leader of the civil rights movement in the United States and man driven solely by religion. But King was much, much more than that and by the end of his life was advocating change of a revolutionary character, challenging the power of American capitalism. http://www.aworldtowin.net/blog/carbon-emissions-deadline-looms.html 03 Apr 2008 10:15:00 GMT Carbon emissions have to peak before 2015 to have any impact on climate change, according to the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) meeting in Bangkok this week, where it discussed mitigation measures. It would take a reduction in average annual growth rates of less than 0.12%, to achieve this target, the IPCC report claims. http://www.aworldtowin.net/blog/out-of-control.html 02 Apr 2008 10:15:00 GMT Some people you meet have a touching faith in global capitalism, although they would never put it like that. They believe that the authorities are more or less always in control of affairs and they will always be able to “manage the crisis” to avoid disaster. The assumptions behind this are that a) capitalism is a rational system that follows a predictable logic b) they have all the answers up their sleeves. Of course, if you add a) and b) together, there is no chance of challenging, let alone defeating, the economic system. http://www.aworldtowin.net/blog/speculation-feeds-rice-price-crisis.html 01 Apr 2008 09:15:00 GMT Across Asia, sudden stratospheric increases in rice prices have prompted countries to ban exports amid fears that shortages could provoke food riots following street protests in Jakarta, capital of Indonesia. World prices for rice, the staple food of about 2.5 billion Asian people, have almost doubled since the beginning of the year, joining those of wheat, corn and other agricultural commodities which have surged since the end of 2006. http://www.aworldtowin.net/blog/unions-should-act-on-asylum-rights.html 31 Mar 2008 10:15:00 GMT The sinister underside of New Labour’s racist, dehumanising immigration policy came to light at a trade union and community conference over the weekend. It is a Kafkaesque world of state-organised disappearances, unlimited detention, rapid expulsions, exploitation and destitution designed to divide communties and win cheap votes at election time. http://www.aworldtowin.net/blog/send-for-dr-who.html 28 Mar 2008 10:15:00 GMT Regulate! Regulate! Regulate! This is the cry heard with increasing stridency on both sides of the Atlantic as the global financial crisis continues to take its toll on both bankers and ordinary people’s lives. This sounds plausible enough, even mildly anti-capitalist. But in truth, regulation is a non-starter when it comes to dealing with the depth and breadth of the meltdown. http://www.aworldtowin.net/blog/anglo-french-nuclear-nightmare.html 27 Mar 2008 10:15:00 GMT The very concept of a “nuclear renaissance” is such an assault on the senses that it seems that only a madman could come up with it. Yet today Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy will agree to build a new generation of Anglo-French nuclear power stations, with the aim of becoming the world’s largest exporters of nuclear technology. http://www.aworldtowin.net/blog/credit-chain-breaks-at-weakest-link.html 26 Mar 2008 10:15:00 GMT Hedge funds are not just investment opportunities open only to wealthy individuals. They also apparently come in the shape of Iceland. Now, pardon the pun, Iceland’s finances are in meltdown and it could be the first country to fall victim of a global credit crunch that shows no signs of abating. http://www.aworldtowin.net/blog/hidden-unholy-alliance.html 25 Mar 2008 10:15:00 GMT The backlash from senior religious figures against the human fertilisation and embryology Bill before parliament should not be allowed to obscure their medieval, anti-science viewpoint on the one hand and the government’s close connection with biotech corporations on the other. http://www.aworldtowin.net/blog/no-security-against-climate-change.html 20 Mar 2008 10:15:00 GMT New Labour’s characterisation of climate change as a “security threat”, second only to terrorism in the pecking order, indicates how the state intends to respond to the results of global warming. And we’re not talking drastic cuts in carbon emissions here but a huge increase in the powers of the state over ordinary people. http://www.aworldtowin.net/blog/iraq-americas-nightmare.html 19 Mar 2008 10:15:00 GMT Exactly five years ago, US and British forces embarked on an illegal pre-emptive war on Iraq with the stated aim of bringing “freedom and democracy” to the country. Instead, they have destroyed Iraq, turning it into a country of mutually hostile ghettoes, presiding over the deaths of over one million Iraqis, driving more than two million into exile, with another 1.9 million internally displaced. http://www.aworldtowin.net/blog/policies-for-crisis-without-precedent.html 18 Mar 2008 10:15:00 GMT The global financial crisis, which this weekend claimed the giant investment bank Bear Stearns and led to a hysterical response on world stock markets, has no precedent. Comparisons with the Wall Street crash of 1929 or even the “bankers’ panic” of 1907 don’t even begin to get near the essence of the crisis. http://www.aworldtowin.net/blog/tibet-brown-puts-trade-before-human.html 17 Mar 2008 10:45:00 GMT While China is desperate to present a benign image to the world in anticipation of the summer Olympics, the brutal crackdown on Tibetans determined to defend their language, religion and culture, betrays the real nature of the authoritarian regime in Beijing. http://www.aworldtowin.net/blog/prayers-as-great-unwinding-claims.html 14 Mar 2008 10:45:00 GMT Guests on last night’s Newsnight (BBC2) talked about a ‘crumbling house of cards built by the capitalist financial system’. They weren’t talking about our book 'A House of Cards, from fantasy finance to global crash' but they might as well have been. Instead, they were discussing the latest bankruptcy of a major financial group. http://www.aworldtowin.net/blog/eon-calls-tune.html 13 Mar 2008 12:25:00 GMT Alistair Darling’s failure to keep his pledge to put “sustainability at the heart of his budget” may have disappointed campaign groups like Friends of the Earth, but they shouldn’t really be surprised. Earlier this week, the government’s new Committee on Climate Change met for the first time – and got an object lesson in just how effective they are likely to be. http://www.aworldtowin.net/blog/goldsmiths-allegiance-to-state.html 12 Mar 2008 10:45:00 GMT As we approach the fifth anniversary of the occupation of Iraq, it is indeed ironic that the man who now tells us that an oath of allegiance to the state by young people would enhance respect for authority and engender a stronger sense of citizenship, is the same person who in 2003 helped facilitate the illegal invasion. http://www.aworldtowin.net/blog/surveillance-olympics.html 11 Mar 2008 10:30:00 GMT If gold medals were awarded for surveillance, then Britain will win a hatful at the 2012 Games. The Metropolitan Police hopes to use no fewer than 500,000 CCTV cameras to police the 2012 Olympics Games in London. http://www.aworldtowin.net/blog/clegg-sounds-alarm-bells.html 10 Mar 2008 09:30:00 GMT Media pundits made fun of the Liberal Democrats’ new leader, Nick Clegg, when he split his party over the European Union treaty referendum vote. But over the weekend, he defied predictions of disaster by winning over spring conference delegates with a sweeping condemnation of “establishment politics” in a bid to position himself for the outcome of the next general election. http://www.aworldtowin.net/reviews/ArtesMundi.html 07 Mar 2008 14:30:00 GMT Review of Artes Mundi at National Museum Cardiff http://www.aworldtowin.net/blog/american-dream-in-tatters.html 07 Mar 2008 10:30:00 GMT The first fall in US household wealth in five years reveals the growing impact of a financial and economic crisis that will be felt by every person on the planet. World prices for oil – now over $100 dollars for a barrel of crude, gold nearing $1000 an ounce, food driven skywards by demand for biofuel, and many other basic commodities are spiralling, whilst the warning signs of recession, including declining retail sales are appearing everywhere. http://www.aworldtowin.net/blog/shelter-strike-for-homeless.html 06 Mar 2008 10:30:00 GMT The charity Shelter was founded in 1966 in response to the television play Cathy Come Home. The powerful drama brought to a head widespread anger about Britain’s housing crisis. Now the play’s director, Ken Loach, is backing a series of strikes by Shelter workers – the first took place yesterday – over plans to make them work longer hours for the same pay. http://www.aworldtowin.net/blog/profit-and-loss-government.html 05 Mar 2008 10:30:00 GMT You can’t argue that this government hasn’t got its priorities clear. New Labour commits up to £100 billion to propping up the failed Northern Rock bank in a desperate bid to keep the financial system intact but won’t spend relatively smaller sums to maintain disabled workers’ jobs or keep post offices open. In these cases, “commercial considerations” come first, second and last above those of the community at large. http://www.aworldtowin.net/blog/railroading-begins.html 04 Mar 2008 10:30:00 GMT With Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama facing a crucial day in their campaign to win the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination, organised labour is having its day in the limelight. With no viable or independent alternative on the horizon, US union leaders still hitch their wagon to the Democratic Party in the hope that they will have some influence when and if their nominee occupies the White House. http://www.aworldtowin.net/blog/murderous-smokescreen.html 03 Mar 2008 10:30:00 GMT The Israelis have done this so many times before that it’s hard to find the appropriate words to describe their latest murderous onslaught in occupied Palestine. More than 100 Palestinians dead in Gaza, including many women and children, is just the cold statistic of a military action that cannot hide a deep political crisis inside Israel itself. http://www.aworldtowin.net/blog/new-drugs-strategy-same-result.html 29 Feb 2008 10:30:00 GMT Another week, another government “10-year strategy” aimed at grabbing the tabloid headlines with get-tough policies that might even pull in a few votes. Sounds cynical? It’s not when you examine the facts. The latest “war on drugs” strategy is much like the last one, which even had a “Drugs Czar” in charge for a time. http://www.aworldtowin.net/blog/more-like-mafia-than-democracy.html 28 Feb 2008 10:30:00 GMT As Russia moves towards its coronation – sorry, presidential election – this Sunday, the clampdown on the autocracy’s political opponents continues to tighten. The outcome is already decided, as President Putin has anointed Dimitry Medvedev as his successor. But just to make sure, the authorities have been using every trick in the book to clamp down on freedom of expression, assembly and association. http://www.aworldtowin.net/blog/making-money-out-of-unhappiness.html 27 Feb 2008 10:30:00 GMT Global drug corporations have been making make millions out of people’s unhappiness. Now it turns out that the drugs don’t work and the 40 million people taking anti-depressants like Prozac and Seroxat, and the doctors prescribing them, may have been duped. http://www.aworldtowin.net/blog/global-food-crisis-grows.html 26 Feb 2008 08:00:00 GMT The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is warning that it will be forced to abandon millions of people to starvation, as sharp increases in food prices eat into its funds. International market prices for wheat, corn, soya beans and dozens of other commodities have doubled or trebled in recent years. http://www.aworldtowin.net/blog/heathrow-eco-vandalism.html 25 Feb 2008 08:00:00 GMT The government’s plans to expand Heathrow Airport have succeeded in one respect. They have created a veritable mass movement in opposition to the proposed third runway and new terminals. Local people, campaign groups, environmental organisations, direct action activists, local councils and MPs from all political parties have united against New Labour’s eco-vandalism. http://www.aworldtowin.net/blog/crime-and-punishment.html 22 Feb 2008 10:00:00 GMT Perhaps it could be a two-part question set for those taking a “citizenship test” to prove that they know about British values before getting a passport (or an ID card). How big is the prison population and what distinguishes the country’s record in jailing people? Answer: the prison population in England and Wales has risen to a record high of 82,006 - 21 places short of capacity; nowhere in Western Europe jails more of its population than England and Wales, where about 147 people per 100,000 are in prison. http://www.aworldtowin.net/blog/debt-tsunami-builds.html 21 Feb 2008 10:00:00 GMT The emergency legislation to allow a temporary period of public ownership of what now seems are the most worthless parts of Northern Rock, is increasingly looking like a finger plugging a hole in the dyke (or levee for American readers) as the global financial system continues to haemorrhage on debt. http://www.aworldtowin.net/reviews/FromRussia.html 20 Feb 2008 14:30:00 GMT Corinna Lotz reviews the From Russia exhibition at the Royal Academy http://www.aworldtowin.net/reviews/Rodchenko.html 20 Feb 2008 11:30:00 GMT Roger Huddle reviews an exhibition dedicated to the revolutionary work of the great Russian photographic artist Alexander Rodchenko, who lived between 1891 and 1956. http://www.aworldtowin.net/blog/cuba-at-crossroads.html 20 Feb 2008 10:00:00 GMT The chorus from the White House and Downing Street was entirely predictable (and so hypocritical). On hearing about the retirement of Fidel Castro as the president of Cuba, those pre-eminent world leaders and exemplary champions of human rights, George Bush and Gordon Brown, said that they now hoped that the island state would move “towards democracy”. It was enough to make you throw up! http://www.aworldtowin.net/reviews/VanityFair.html 19 Feb 2008 11:00:00 GMT Melanie Abrams reviews the Vanity Fair portrait show http://www.aworldtowin.net/blog/21st-century-balkan-powder-keg.html 19 Feb 2008 09:00:00 GMT Birth should be a happy event. But the declaration of a new state in Kosovo, which according to the United Nations is still part of Serbia, could spin dangerously out of control. Both the majority Kosovan Albanians and the ethnic Serb minority have become parties to 19th-century style Balkans manoeuvres, with Western Europe on one side and Russia and Serb nationalists on the other. http://www.aworldtowin.net/blog/darling-going-down-with-ship.html 18 Feb 2008 11:00:00 GMT “Floundering - SS Corporate Globalisation taking on heavy water – pumps failing.” That was the essence of the emergency message relayed to the world yesterday by chancellor Alistair Darling as he announced public ownership of failed bank Northern Rock following failure to strike a deal with venture capitalists led by Sir Richard Branson. His was the equivalent of announcing "don't panic" to passengers on the Titanic. http://www.aworldtowin.net/reviews/CarbonConnection.html 17 Feb 2008 10:00:00 GMT Review by Penny Cole "This innovative film brings together two communities on opposite sides of the world, in every way, to explore the impact of one global corporation – BP - on each others' lives and livelihoods..." http://www.aworldtowin.net/blog/bird-flu-good-for-business.html 15 Feb 2008 10:00:00 GMT One thing is certain when bird flu strikes in developing countries: small poultry keepers will suffer to the advantage of major producers. That is exactly what has happened in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal, where local people have had their livelihood destroyed, enabling the corporations to assume ever-increasing dominance. http://www.aworldtowin.net/blog/judges-hit-back.htmll 14 Feb 2008 10:00:00 GMT The Appeal Court’s decision to strike out the convictions of five young Muslim men is part of a continuing struggle between the government and the judiciary over the rule of law. Now into its sixth major piece of anti-terror legislation, New Labour has trampled over the long struggle for rights and has attempted to bypass ancient and contemporary legal rights as well as the independence of the judiciary. http://www.aworldtowin.net/blog/non-doms-have-their-way.html 13 Feb 2008 10:00:00 GMT The government’s ignominious retreat over modest proposals for taxing super-rich, non-domiciled foreigners – the so-called “non-doms” – is a further sign of New Labour’s confusion and decline as the party favoured by big business. After a decade of helping to turn London in particular into the playground of the rich, the government is losing its touch to such an extent that there are clear indications that business is turning back to the Tories. http://www.aworldtowin.net/blog/crucifying-archbishop.html 12 Feb 2008 10:00:00 GMT A World to Win’s editors are not for any religion or the supremacy of one “belief system” over another. But we can see how those who want to find a peg on which to hang all their prejudices have chosen the Archbishop of Canterbury’s thoughts about the rights of minorities. Rowan Williams has become a punch bag for reactionaries and fake liberals of all kinds following his considered remarks about sharia law and minority communities. http://www.aworldtowin.net/reviews/TomHurndall.html 11 Feb 2008 16:00:00 GMT Peter Arkell reviews Defy the Stars, The Life and Tragic Death of Tom Hurndall, which tells the struggle to uncover the truth behind his killing by an Israeli sniper. http://www.aworldtowin.net/blog/staring-at-economic-calamity.html 11 Feb 2008 10:00:00 GMT The world’s financial ministers are all in a dither, and it is not surprising. At the weekend meeting of the G7 – the world’s richest economies – ministers took a few steps towards acknowledging the scale of the economic unravelling that is both cause and consequence of the global credit crunch. Then most did a sharp about turn, rejecting America’s call for a global reflationary package and claiming things could be contained. http://www.aworldtowin.net/blog/week-of-intolerance.html 8 Feb 2008 10:50:00 GMT Another bad week for civil liberties and human rights in Britain, courtesy of the New Labour government and their supporters around the country. A mixture of anti-working class, anti-Islamic and plain anti-democratic measures all add to the authoritarian and intolerant atmosphere that is the hallmark of this grim government.