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After Wiggo, London 2012, Murray in New York, The Ryder Cup and Chelsea winning the Champions League it looked like last summer could never be bettered. And then this summer began… Mark Perryman of Philosophy Football reviews a selection of books that explain sporting success, and failure. The Lions series victory in Australia, Murray’s triumph […] Read more »

Kevin Ovenden, a national officer of the Stop the War Coalition, looks at the arguments about whether protest makes a difference – and what we need to do now. It may seem wearily familiar – a rush to war, disputed intelligence dossiers and a determined effort to proceed without even UN Security Council authorisation. There […] Read more »

London: Downing Street, 5—7pm, Wednesday 28th August Britain, France and the US are committing to another disastrous military intervention. Apart from the inevitable casualties, any attack on Syria can only inflame an already disastrous civil war and would risk pulling in regional powers further. Most people in this country have learnt from the disasters of […] Read more »

CND general secretary Kate Hudson shares her recent blog post on why we should oppose attacks on Syria. We oppose any military attack on Syria. Such actions will only exacerbate this bloody civil war and risk drawing neighbouring states into the conflict. The alleged use of chemical weapons within Syria is to be condemned in […] Read more »

Ed Bauer, a supporter of Birmingham based Communities Against The Cuts reports from the Reclaim the Power camp in Balcombe, Sussex The Sussex town of Balcombe has played host to Reclaim the Power, a protest camp targeting the site of a fracking bid by the controversial firm Cuadrilla. Many of the headlines on the day […] Read more »

Dave Kellaway, from Hackney Left Unity, reviews Elysium (102 mins) Directed by Neill Blomkamp, starring Matt Damon and Jodie Foster. All science fiction films are like the future perfect tense, they have to have a connection between our present lives and sometime in the future. If they don’t they become too dense and incomprehensible. However […] Read more »

Chris Strafford and Rachel Brooks from the Anticapitalist Initiative discuss the need to defend and extend struggle for LGBT equality in our schools. The revelation that at least 40 schools in Britain have introduced homophobic Section 28-like rules banning the “promotion of homosexuality” has to be met with a calls for them to be overturned. […] Read more »

Egyptian revolutionary socialist Hannah Elsisi, currently in Cairo, talks to Hesham Zakai about the sources and repercussions of Egypt’s unfolding tragedy. Hesham Zakai: Have we just witnessed a massacre in Cairo and where does the blame for the enormous bloodshed lie? Hannah Elsisi: We haven’t just witnessed a massacre. We’ve just witnessed another massacre. The […] Read more »

Not even the opposition can face the public unscathed, says Will Skyrme. Not even those ordained by Her Majesty to oppose the current ruling clique can wonder freely in the righteous world of the un-egged. Quite apart from the deliciously appropriate nature of the tactic itself – sitting perfectly as it does on the right […] Read more »

Working tax credits subsidise big corporations to exploit poor people. Let’s have a mandatory living wage, says Salman Shaheen. Ed Miliband’s summer of silence has been criticised from the left as the perception grows that Labour has failed to provide a coherent and effective alternative to austerity. The standard riposte to those who claim there […] Read more »