15 August, when Hugo Chavez overwhelmingly won the referendum designed to remove him as president of Venezuela, was a bad day for George W Bush and Tony Blair.
IMAGINE MY delight when a few months ago I was invited to speak at a four-day socialist conference organised by All Together in South Korea.
THE POLITICAL war over Iraq goes on, alongside the shooting war. Two polls published last week illustrated this struggle.
THE BBC’s recent programme Nurseries Undercover revealed cases of abuse in privately owned nurseries. It provoked many headlines and much anxiety for parents of young children.
Even a hardened cynic like me has been amazed by the blatant propaganda operation orchestrated by the US and British governments over Iraq.
THE FAMOUS "war on terrorism" took a majestic step forward in the last couple of weeks with the production and distribution of Preparing for Emergencies, What You Need to Know.
IT ISN’T just Britain that is experiencing a crisis of New Labour style politics.
A MYSTERY has been unfolding. It’s not so much a whodunnit as a howdunnit.
ANY LINGERING doubt that John Kerry would, as president of the United States, be anything but a good and loyal servant of US imperialism should have vanished on Thursday last week.
AUGUST IN Edinburgh. And as the global middle class descends on the Scottish capital for the International Festival and Fringe, it can seem that the entire city is nothing more than a bourgeois cultural playground.
THE MEDIA have been celebrating Tony Blair’s survival of the latest great crisis of his premiership. It is, on the face of it, pretty remarkable.
FAHRENHEIT 9/11 director Michael Moore has been under attack recently. He has been called a self publicist, a propagandist and a paranoiac.
