Tory prime minister Margaret Thatcher deregulated the London Stock Exchange 25 years ago last week—on a day pretentiously titled the "Big Bang". Market speculation exploded.
The recent phone hacking scandal has exposed the grubby links between mass media, politicians and the police. For many people the scandal confirmed a view of the mainstream media as little more than a tool of the rich and powerful.
Each year in the UK approximately 235,000 people get married. The vast majority of these weddings will get no media coverage at all.
Zuccotti Park is a slice of prime downtown Manhattan real estate, named—with an almost comical lack of imagination—after the chairman of the private company that owns it. Yet for just over a month now, the site has had another name—Liberty Square.
When the chaotic videos and images of Muammar Gaddafi’s last moments were broadcast, it generated mass celebrations—and deep misgivings.
MUAMMAR GADDAFI’S end resembles nothing more than that of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, sometime colonial master of Libya.
Prime minister David Cameron welcomed the death of Gaddafi, saying it marked a "historic transition" for Libya.
In August this year, a march of 4,000 indigenous people set off from the Isiboro Secure National Park, a protected Amazon region in eastern Bolivia known as Tipnis.
The 1990s saw neoliberalism leave devastation in its wake across Latin America, shifting wealth from the poor to the rich.
Electricians are fighting a raw form of class struggle. On one side stand multinational corporations determined to maximise profits—on the other rank and file workers organising to defend their livelihoods.
Workers go where the job is. Many leave family behind to live in digs for weeks or months. Bosses even find ways to use this travelling to discipline workers.
Bosses profits... Balfour Beatty Engineering Services £50,500,000
