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Images and video from Brazil solidarity protest London 18 June 2013

2013-06-18T23:31:30+00:00

Video and images by Lucy Clements and Lucas Perry-Hill from the London protest called in solidarity with the protests sweeping Brazil

People's Assembly live

2013-06-18T18:13:17+00:00

Counterfire's rolling coverage of the People's Assembly Against Austerity

Learning from Taksim Square

2013-06-18T17:39:21+00:00

Neil Faulkner looks at the historical significance of the Taksim protest movement

Greece: Democracy? No Signal

2013-06-18T14:51:01+00:00

Elli Siapkidou describes the movement against the government's decision to shut down ERT, Greece’s national broadcaster

Another Turkey is possible

2013-06-18T08:08:30+00:00

The use of force against mass protests in Turkey has created an even stronger opposition than Erdogan could have imagined. This spark may yet turn into a massive fire, writes Sait Akgul

World War One: All Germany's fault? Neil Faulkner debates Max Hastings

2013-06-17T22:41:59+00:00

Cameron's plans to celebrate WWI are coming under fire - Neil Faulkner debates Max Hastings on the Jeremy Vine Show

The drugs don't work - Why can't our rulers kick the austerity habit?

2013-06-17T22:23:19+00:00

Austerity isn't working, yet all we get is more of it. Why can't our rulers give it up? And how can we break the austerity consensus? With James Meadway and Mary Robinson

Video: Fighting sexism: why it's kicking off everywhere

2013-06-17T21:28:23+00:00

Stephen Harper, David Cameron and the political uses of Islamophobia

2013-06-16T20:09:39+00:00

Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper addressed the UK parliament on Thursday, Sana Malik looks at his record of islamophobia

War Envoy: Tony Blair urges Syria intervention

2013-06-16T11:48:57+00:00

If Tony Blair's suggestion of no-fly zones in Syria become a reality, it would almost certainly presage a war throughout the Middle East and perhaps beyond

Clapham to Brixton march against education cuts

2013-06-16T11:42:23+00:00

A demonstration from Clapham Common to Windrush Square in Brixton on the 15th June 2013 protesting against the government's austerity measures meaning hard cuts to Lambeth college

The Question of Strategy: Part 2

2013-06-13T08:03:17+00:00

In the second part of the review of Socialist Register 2013: The Question of Strategy, the strengths and weaknesses of campaigning strategies are discussed, from Occupy to the People’s Assembly

Video: After Chavez: the future of Latin America

2013-06-12T19:23:01+00:00

Hugo Chavez was a rare thing a poplular hero in government. After his death, how can the Bolivarian Revolution go forward? Jeremy Corbyn MP, Bernard Regan and Matt Wilgress discuss at Dangerous Ideas for Dangerous Times

Iran after Ahmadinejad

2013-06-12T18:36:06+00:00

Sean Ledwith takes a critical look at this week's elections in Iran the first presidential election since the massive wave of protests after the 2009 poll

Occupy Gezi: eruption of a mass movement

2013-06-12T17:39:23+00:00

Volkan Aran traces the growth of Turkey's massive protest movement in response to excessive police violence and the increasingly authoritarian rule of prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

The New Scramble for Africa and the War On Terror

2013-06-12T17:18:08+00:00

Dan Poulton explores the relationship between the new scramble for Africa and the War on Terror in an article is based on a talk given at the recent Dangerous Ideas for Dangerous Times festival

Video: Terry Eagleton: why Marx was right

2013-06-10T20:20:58+00:00

Economic catastrophe has put Marx back on the agenda. Was he right all along? Terry Eagleton makes the case in this video of his talk at Dangerous Ideas for Dangerous Times

Video: David Harvey introduces Rebel cities: from the right to the city to the urban revolution

2013-06-10T19:37:07+00:00

David Harvey, speaking at Dangerous Ideas for Dangerous Times, about his latest book, explaining how cities have been, and will continue to be, the main arena of struggle against capitalism and its affects

Video: Owen Jones on how to tackle scroungers

2013-06-10T19:10:55+00:00

George Osborne takes from those who have least, while the Daily Mail and others cheer his attacks as tackling ‘scroungers’. But Owen Jones thinks that there are some other scroungers in society who might need dealing with

Video: Tariq Ali: is American power in decline?

2013-06-10T10:47:58+00:00

Retreat from Iraq and Afghanistan, allies toppled in Egypt and Libya, recession at home and China on the rise. In this video from Dangerous Ideas for Dangerous Times Tariq Ali asks if US power is on the

Video: what's the point of the Left?

2013-06-10T09:56:49+00:00

China Mieville, Chris Nineham and Laurie Penny debate the future of the Left at Dangerous Ideas for Dangerous Times 2013. Video by Paul Hanes

A chance to change this country's history

2013-06-09T09:01:32+00:00

The first People's Assembly is the start of a process of mobilisation, it will need the commitment of every activist to make its early promise a political reality that can shape our future

Socialist Register 2013: The Question of Strategy

2013-06-06T14:05:47+00:00

In this two-part review essay, Alex Snowdon discusses Socialist Register 2013: The Question of Strategy, on how the left, internationally, has responded to austerity and crisis

Letter from Italy: race, class and Balotelli

2013-06-05T11:25:43+00:00

Elle Gierre looks at what the treatment Balotelli's tells us about the deep seated racism of Italian society and the experience of the 'italiani di seconda generazione

Video: Remembering Emily Wilding Davison

2013-06-04T17:18:47+00:00

A short film in memory of suffragette martyr Emily Wilding Davison who ran in front of the King's horse at the Epsom Derby in 1913 100 years ago this weekend

A 'normal' country: football hero Mahmoud Sarsak fights for justice

2013-06-04T13:32:19+00:00

Footballer who staged the longest hunger strike ever launched by a Palestinian prisoner held by Israel tours UK

Even the Times knows we can turn the tide against austerity

2013-06-04T07:15:10+00:00

This is a moment of hope for the labour movement at last the unions, the left and the anti-austerity movement are getting it together, writes John Rees in the Morning Star

Emily Wilding Davison: The one who threw herself under the horse

2013-06-03T20:03:10+00:00

To mark the 100th anniversary of the death of Emily Wilding Davison, Kate Connelly interviews the people behind a new play about the suffragette hero

From the barricades of Taksim Square

2013-06-02T21:31:37+00:00

Kathreen O'Connor, an activist from Scotland, has been in Istanbul since the upsurge of

Dead giveaway: Charles Ramsey and racism in Obama's America

2013-06-02T20:53:23+00:00

The reaction to Charles Ramsey's words to the media after he helped free three white women and a six-year old girl from a domestic

Leninism for Dangerous Times

2013-06-02T19:55:14+00:00

What can we learn from Lenin about how we organise to transform society? Paul Le Blanc provides some answers in this text of his talk presented at Dangerous Ideas for Dangerous Times, 31 May 2013

Terrorism and wars in Muslim countries: is there any connection?

2013-05-26T11:20:10+00:00

The politicians who have waged endless wars in Muslim countries are exactly the people who now want to deny any connection between their policy and the rise of terrorism

The Making and Unmaking of a Zionist

2013-05-24T14:25:53+00:00

Antony Lerman’s remarkable memoir, The Making and Unmaking of a Zionist, details a life entwined with a cause he has abandoned as conflicting with his own Jewish values

Women’s liberation: theory and practice

2013-05-24T00:00:00+00:00

Fundamental change for women means challenging the priorities of a system based on profit, and that requires connecting women’s movements to the wider fight for change

The lessons to learn from the Woolwich killing are obvious: but not to David Cameron

2013-05-23T10:47:18+00:00

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Any rational balance sheet of the last decade would show that the 'war on terror' has been a failure in its own terms: it has not prevented terrorism but caused

A movement rises: hundreds pack People's Assembly rallies‏

2013-05-22T20:42:28+00:00

Chris Nineham reports on a week of electric anti-austerity events backing the People's Assembly Against Austerity

A short history of Britain since 1945 (without the boring bits)

2013-05-20T09:17:55+00:00

The great social achievements of the post-war generation have been systematically attacked and eroded. Historian Neil Faulkner explains why – and outlines how we can shape history in a different direction

Raising Expectations (And Raising Hell): My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement

2013-05-16T11:37:40+00:00

Jane McAlevey’s Raising Expectations, an account of the problems and possibilities of trade union activism in the US, is full of wit and wisdom, finds Season Butler

People's Assembly: we need unity to beat austerity

2013-05-15T19:39:43+00:00

The People's Assembly is not merely a nice idea or a worthwhile event, but the main basis for co-ordinating resistance to cuts for some time to come

Bulgaria after the elections

2013-05-15T14:31:47+00:00

As rigidly neoliberal rules on spending and monetary policy push ordinary Bulgarians to despair, the Left needs to offer a coherent, credible alternative writes Dancho Medarov

Video: 'A Marxist History of the World: From Neanderthals to Neoliberals'

2013-05-14T11:49:57+00:00

From the dawn of humanity to the greatest crisis to confront the human race, Neil Faulkner introduces his new book. Video by Fourmanfilms

Remembering Rainsborough

2013-05-11T18:21:05+00:00

Sunday May 12 sees the unveiling of a memorial to Thomas Rainsborough, Leveller leader in the English Civil War, a revolution the Tory right would rather forget

Bahrain: 20/20

2013-05-10T19:09:29+00:00

A huge, glossy, photographic history of the Bahrain uprising presents a misleading narrative that seeks to whitewash the regime, finds Dominic Kavakeb

Israel's illegal act of war threatens to inflame the region far beyond the borders of Syria

2013-05-06T09:26:58+00:00

It is highly likely that the US will have been notified about these attacks in advance and they are part of a growing campaign of intervention in the civil war in Syria

Rise of the 'clowns': Ukip and British politics today

2013-05-05T11:17:43+00:00

In the wake of this week's local elections, where Ukip took nearly a quarter of all votes, Alex Snowdon looks at what they represent and how the left should respond

Mad Science: The Nuclear Power Experiment

2013-05-03T16:08:59+00:00

Nuclear power is championed by some environmentalists as an answer to global warming, Mad Science provides evidence that it remains far too dangerous

Letter from Italy: when the old is dying and the new cannot be born

2013-05-01T11:46:09+00:00

In the first of a regular series, Elle Gierre's letter from Italy reports on a left struggling to get a grip on a country in crisis

Len McCluskey's victory is a vote for a fighting union

2013-04-30T15:13:34+00:00

McClusky's victory is an endorsement of the strategy for a fighting union by Unite activists, but the 15% turnout shows the need to win this strategy with the wider membership

Michael Gove: holiday snatcher

2013-04-30T13:35:03+00:00

Michael Gove's determination to demoralise and destroy public sector education appears to be boundless

Syria descending into hell

2013-04-29T09:20:50+00:00

The alliance of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Israel, Jordan and the western powers has in its sights the taking out of Syria as a key ally of Iran, and with it Hezbollah in Lebanon

Murdoch’s Politics: How One Man’s Thirst for Wealth and Power Shapes Our World

2013-04-26T10:01:15+00:00

The threat monopoly media ownership poses to democratic politics is laid bare in a compelling new study of Rupert Murdoch’s use of his corporate power, argues Paul Hartley

The day we nearly broke Blair

2013-04-24T14:44:30+00:00

In the latest edition of Strike! magazine Chris Nineham remembers the power of protest

Labour, the movement and the radical left

2013-04-22T19:48:47+00:00

Labour activists are an important part of the anti-cuts movement in many areas. Reuben Bard-Rosenberg argues for a united anti-cuts movement involving those inside and outside the Labour Party

The Endless Crisis

2013-04-20T12:39:02+00:00

John Bellamy Foster and Robert McChesney’s new book on the economic crisis, explaining the tendency to stagnation of the era of monopoly-finance capitalism, is clear and compelling, argues Peter Stauber

North Korea threatened by rogue nuclear state

2013-04-20T09:43:33+00:00

As tensions rise on the Korean peninsula its worth remembering that the US spends more than the next 42 countries combined on waging war

Stealing the suffragettes: Margaret Thatcher’s funeral and false historical parallels

2013-04-19T10:32:17+00:00

Katherine Connelly explains why attempts to claim Thatcher as the heir to the suffragettes are a gross distortion of history and an attack on our struggles today

Fighting drone wars behind our back: cheap, invisible and risk-free mass murder

2013-04-17T12:40:48+00:00

The great advantage of drones for western governments is they can be used without domestic casualties and therefore, they hope, without the risk of popular opposition or protest

The Lady's not for mourning: Margaret Thatcher and the neoliberal counter-revolution

2013-04-16T20:41:17+00:00

Historian Neil Faulkner on Thatcher, the neoliberal counter-revolution, and the battle for the future

Bombs from Boston to Baghdad: what is the value of a human life?

2013-04-16T16:08:36+00:00

Whoever is behind the tragic Boston bombings, such carnage is routine in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Middle East, argues Lindsey German

Mortgage fraud, faux-democracy and escrache in Spain

2013-04-13T12:21:52+00:00

As David Cameron plans another housing boom in Britain, Yaiza Hernández looks at how the people of Spain are suffering and resisting the dire consequences of a bursting bubble