United Kingdom Watch
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Latest UK
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Dolack: Private sector is “efficient” only at extracting money from public
There is nothing that capitalists won’t grab if they see a possibility to score a profit. Not even the most basic needs for human life, such as water, are exempt
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It is time to impanel a citizens’ tribunal to investigate the utter failure of the governments of Boris Johnson, Donald Trump, Jair Bolsonaro, Narendra Modi, and others
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Hackbarth: Among World Leaders, Only Mexico’s AMLO Has Offered Julian Assange Asylum
While world leaders remain quiet, AMLO stands alone in speaking for freedom of speech — and has offered Assange asylum in Mexico
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It is hard to imagine how the government’s handling of the pandemic could have been more catastrophic
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Driver: Toxic Sludge is Good for You – Corporate Propaganda and Public Relations
Most people are simply unaware of the scale of the manipulation, and the extent to which businesses influence governments and their citizens
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Cockburn: What Assange’s Victory Really Means
This is one of the most worrying aspect of the case – the willingness of the media to stand to one side during one of the greatest attacks on press freedom in modern history
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Cook: How the left is being manipulated into colluding in its own character assassination
We need to find ways to turn the tables on the war criminals who have been gaslighting us in demanding that Assange, who exposed their crimes, is the one who needs to be locked up
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Cook: The US and UK may not will Assange’s death, but everything they are doing makes it more likely
Washington has wanted Assange permanently silenced and made an example of – by demonstrating to other journalists its terrifying reach and powers of retaliation
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Seymour: No future: the English Left in retrospect
What is next for the English Left after Corbyn-led Labour’s crushing electoral defeat in last year’s election?
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Driver: Brutal Human Rights Abuses – Torture, Sanctions and Our Failure to Discuss Economic Rights
People in advanced nations assume that their governments do not torture prisoners, but it is practized by the US, and was used by Britain in its colonies and in Northern Ireland
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Cockburn: The UK is Out of the EU
But the Balance of Power in Europe has Tipped Permanently Against It
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Cohn: Assange Extradition Denial Indicts US Prison System But Imperils Journalism
In a stunning decision, British judge Vanessa Baraitser denied Donald Trump’s request for extradition of Assange to the United States, ruling that he was at high risk of suicide if he were extradited because the U.S. prison system could not protect him
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Rios-Jara: Lessons from a decade of student activism in the UK
The pandemic has exposed the disgraceful failures of market reforms in the British higher education sector. But the resistance of students continues
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The cost: The crushing of press freedom, and the labelling of dissent as mental illness
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Driver: The Irrelevance of Human Rights in US and British Foreign Policy
Historical human rights abuses are not explained well in most school textbooks or by the mainstream media
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Robinson: “Victory for Julian”
U.K. Blocks WikiLeaks Founder Assange Extradition to U.S. on Espionage Charges
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Finn: Jeremy Corbyn’s Opponents Burned the House Down to Stop Him
Keir Starmer has set the seal on a drastic shift to the right for the British Labour Party
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Corbyn: Jeremy Corbyn: Why I’m Launching a Project for Peace and Justice
Interview on his hopes for the initiative — and why he refuses to be cowed by the attacks he has endured
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Cockburn: COVID-19 Learns From Experience, Unlike Boris Johnson and His Crew
Traditional English deference towards the powers-that-be is wearing thin but, even so, many people resist facing up to the comic opera inadequacy of British leadership at a time of such extreme national peril – understandably so since it is a truly frightening sight
ZMag UK
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Cohn: Extradition of Assange Would Set a Dangerous Precedent
The Trump administration is seeking extradition of WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, to the United States for trial on charges carrying 175 years in prison
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Pilger: The Assange Arrest is a Warning from History
The glimpse of Julian Assange being dragged from the Ecuadorean embassy in London is an emblem of the times. Might against right. Muscle against the law. Indecency against courage
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Meehan: Living it Large—Life on Benefits
A society that allows many, many people to live on less than £100 per week while a privileged few get by on over £100,000 is surely a great place to live
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The Manchester atrocity lifts the rock of British foreign policy to reveal its Faustian alliance with extreme Islam, especially the sect known as Wahhabism or Salafism, whose principal custodian and banker is the oil kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Britain’s biggest weapons customer.
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Andreou: The Scottish Independence Vote: A Significant Legacy
With an unprecedented voter turnout of 85 percent and a political mobilization that shook the foundations of the United Kingdom, much was accomplished...
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News: War, Prisons, and Torture in the U.S. & UK
Richard Haley is based in Edinburgh, Scotland and has been...
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Glazebrook: Collusion: The Untold Story of British Violence and Murder
On July 8, 1981, on the Falls Road in Belfast,...
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Gupta: Better Living through Poverty
From "Survivor’s" remote jungles to "Big Brother’s" households under lockdown,...
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Simanowitz: Young, Gifted, and Blacklisted
Vigil in London on September 7 for the Saharawi "Oxford...
UK Audio/Video
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Monbiot: Brexit: Capitalism’s Civil War
“Farage and his ilk are just tools of something much bigger & much deeper than they are”
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Feinstein: I Lost 39 Members of My Family in the Holocaust, Jeremy Corbyn is No Antisemite
“As the son of a holocaust survivor I find the use of antisemitism to fight political battles hard to stomach”
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Interview on the failures of the conservative party in dealing with the coronavirus crisis, the need of the EU to unify or disintegrate and the future of the left in Europe
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Varoufakis: Brexit & Jeremy Corbyn
The coming UK general election and his plan for the global economy
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Pettifor: Generating Good Jobs
'Massive investment in the economy to generate good jobs is entirely affordable. A Corbyn government should have the confidence to do it.'
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On 8 March 2018 women across the world are going on strike. This is a call to action for women in the UK to join the strike. We will refuse to work. We will be on the streets. We will shut things down and disrupt business as usual
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Sandberg: Learning from Corbyn
Former Sanders Campaign Digital Organizing Director Claire Sandberg speaks to...
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Barlow: UK Election Polls Tighten
Britain's June 8 general election race is tightening between Labour and Tories and how the mainstream British media is losing credibility in the process
Resist the Cuts
Some Articles:
- Robin Hahnel: Digging in a Hole
- Duncan Weldon: Greek Myths
- Joseph Healy: Inside the coalition of resistance
- NLP: Where next for the student movement
- Red Pepper: Countering the cuts myths
Some Organisations:
- The Cuts won't work
- The Coalition of Resistance
- Other Organisations: local, national and international
View Anti-Cuts groups Map here
UK Blogs
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Tripathi: Assange, Pinochet and Diplomatic Double Dealing
CounterPunch, August 24-26, 2012 A decade ago, the British...
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: Don’t say prayers in public, Jesus said so.
Last week the National Secular Society and an ex-councillor won...
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Kearns: What does it mean to say rap music causes riots?
(originally posted at: http://towardtheunknownregion.blogspot.com/2011/08/rap-music-and-riots.html) I couldn't resist looking briefly at...
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Kearns: Work is not a social policy: challenging the coalition gov’s ‘welfare reforms’
“Never again will work be the wrong financial choice. Never...
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Sinclair: Myth vs Reality: British Troops “did not die in vain” in Sangin, Afghanistan
As British forces handed over control of Sangin, Afghanistan to...
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“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of...
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Kearns: The “middle class mob”: press coverage of Saturday’s UK Uncut action
Discourses around protests develop pretty quickly such that it's tricky...
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H: The PPS-UK anti-cuts leaflet and the problem of passive dissent
In 2003 over a million marched against war. But a...