IN MONDAY’S Guardian Gary Younge attacked the ineptitude of the "liberal left" in Europe when confronted with religious faith, whether among evangelical Christians in the United States or Muslims in Europe:
John Pilger once made an excellent documentary called Palestine is Still the Issue. The news that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is seriously ill, and has had to be flown for treatment to a Paris hospital, is a reminder that Pilger was right.
THE US presidential election is now so close that polls suggest we might have a repeat of what happened in 2000.
SOMETHING EXTRAORDINARY happened during the long weekend of 15-17 October. The beautiful, crazy, creative chaos of a great social forum—which I have witnessed in Porto Alegre, Florence, Paris and Mumbai—came to rainy, grey north London.
ONE OF the most striking things about the movement against capitalist globalisation that began with the Seattle protests of November 1999 has been the relatively limited influence of Marxism within it.
"IS BLAIR really finished now?" This was the question posed by Angharad Hughes in a letter to last week’s Socialist Worker. She writes, "I seem to remember that about six months ago Socialist Worker was describing Tony Blair as a ‘political corpse’—and I agreed with you.
THERE IS one person left in Britain who still believes Saddam had weapons of mass destruction when the US invaded.
MOST MEDIA commentary accepts that violent eruptions of discontent may happen in far away countries of which we know little.
THE GREAT African-American writer James Baldwin once wrote, "Artists are here to disturb."
IF YOU want to hear debate about the war in Iraq, look no further than a theatre near you. Blair may have succeeded in closing down debate in parliament, but a record number of plays have as their themes the war and its consequences.
FOR LIBERALS in the US, the Anybody But Bush virus creates more hostility towards Ralph Nader than towards George Bush himself.
IN 1977 my partner and I had a child, and we were living in someone else’s flat.
