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Sophie Katz extends her first commentary on the situation in Egypt. It is often a mistake to comment from afar but the British media is so appalling and the Internet so full of trash it is difficult to hear genuine voices from the Egyptian left in these crucial hours. But great events pile on great […] Read more »

It is a puzzle for everybody with revolutionary and democratic instincts what to think about the Egyptian coup, says Sophie Katz. It is not of course a problem for Britain’s popular ‘commentariat’ who trumpet their clichés about everybody else’s failure to abide by the rule of law and shamefully remind their readers of the horrors […] Read more »

The latest GDP release from the Office for National Statistics was accompanied by a set of revisions to previous data. These now show that the downturn was more severe than had previously been estimated and that the British economy is even further away from recovery, says economist Michael Burke. Previously, ONS data had shown that […] Read more »

  The recent decision of the Greek Prime Minister, Samaras, to close down the public television and radio stations, caused a large mobilization and resulted in a crisis of the governmental coalition, reports Stavros Panagiotidis. Since that day, representatives of trade unions, student unions, workers federations, party leaders, MPs, members of all left parties and […] Read more »

Orsan Senalp reports on the massive June Days mobilisation in Turkey and highlights the music produced in solidarity with the protests, including some of the best known musical and video products of the June Days. Last Saturday (22 June) hundreds of  thousands gathered in Taksim Square to commemorate martyred comrades of the resistance. However while people […] Read more »

The Finnish Left Alliance held its party congress during June 8-9 in Tampere, Finland, reports Ruurik Holm. The congress approved a visionary and programmatic paper Red-Green Future, which outlines the central features of a red-green society and describes what kind of measures need to be taken for achieving it. For example, economic growth is not […] Read more »

In his “keynote speech” on Saturday, Ed Miliband attempted to make links between the ‘Labour Government’ of 2015 and the Attlee Government of 1945. John Penney, from Crewe Left Unity, was not impressed.    I had the misfortune today, since I  couldn’t attend the Peoples Assembly event in London, to listen on the TV to […] Read more »

I am writing to you with regard to the new bedroom tax, which as you are aware was imposed on 1st April 2013. As you know, there is a lot of concern about how the sick and disabled are coping, I fully understand that they have special needs and need help with regard to getting […] Read more »

Mark Perryman argues why the Left should take sport seriously Of course how fast an individual can run, how far they can chuck an object, how high they can jump hardly matters at all in the greater scheme of global justice and human rights. But that isn’t what is being claimed on behalf of sport […] Read more »

The gathering of over 4,000 people at the People’s Assembly Against Austerity in London on Saturday 22nd June was truly inspirational, reports John Keeley. To be together with so many who regard profit as a dirty word & who want a world based upon more humane values, such as equality, solidarity & dignity, it’s hard […] Read more »