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MAY 68: Street posters from France - this Friday at the Hayward Gallery
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
Two anniversaries, one catastrophe
14 May: Palestinians across the world tomorrow mark the 60th anniversary of the Nakba – “the day of catastrophe”. Only hours before, on the evening of May 14, 1948, a group of Zionist Jews declared themselves the independent government of a Jewish state, excluding Palestinians who had lived on the land since time immemorial. They are two very different anniversaries. Read more... have your say
13 May: Will Hutton's fantasy world – I wonder what Will Hutton, writer on economic affairs, chief executive of the Work Foundation and former editor-in-chief of The Observer thought at breakfast this morning as he scanned today’s financial headlines, where the talk is all gloom and doom?
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
Life inside the bubble
The new Catch 22 for Iraq.
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.
