A Fantastical Better Past
Hawking the Scottish ‘Government’s’ Homecoming Scotland 2009 (or should that be Will Ye No Come Back Again?) ‘celebration’ on BBC Scotland’s evening news bulletin a couple of weeks ago, nationalist First Minister Alex Salmond said
people who don’t understand that Scottish history is about romance and mystery don’t understand Scotland.
On the face of it the statement [...]
Another Iranian Union Leader Arrested
Sherkat-e Vahed executive board member Gholamreza Gholamhosseini, is being held without charge in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison.
Police arrested Gholamhosseini on June 24 while he was visiting Shirodi Stadium, where an event marking Iran’s Women’s Day was taking place. The gathering was sponsored by the municipality of Tehran and by the bus company, Sherkat-e Vahed. Security [...]
Three Alligators
Another success for the free market
The sorry end of Harun Thiyanantham¹, murdered in a London squat, the conditions of which have been described as ‘beyond Dickensian’, prove once again the ruthless efficacy of ‘the market’ at finding the true value of everything — in this case human life. What is that value? For the majority [...]
No — You Can’t Do That
You may have seen comedians marching up and down with their placards proclaiming unconditional support for far right reactionary forces such as Hezbollah — forces implacably and violently opposed to socialism and workers’ organisations — instead of offering their solidarity to those who struggle against both the aggression of the Israeli ruling class and rejectionist [...]
The Logic Of Racism
If you thought the British Labour Party’s long journey from the party of social democracy and social justice to the party of managerialism, privatisation and lowest common denominator politics — aka ‘New Labour’ — had reached its nadir, you were wrong. The process of political triangulation set in motion by Neil Kinnock, which was intended [...]
