The British ruling class has always hated democracy. In the 18th century our rulers denounced attempts by ordinary people to fight for reforms as "mob rule".
‘Student debt means I can’t pay into the pension scheme’ - Holly, teacher, Cambridgeshire "I’m in my second year of teaching. After doing my degree and a PGCE to become a teacher I’ve got £18,000 worth of student debt—and my starting wage is just £21,000.
It started as an unknown illness, first noticed in New York around 1979 and 1980 in a community that generally took care of its health: gay men.
The world can be a bad place to be a woman. Women make up a staggering 70 percent of the world’s poor. Being female shapes every aspect of women’s lives—from things like work, housing, health and education to our most intimate relationships.
There is a rising tide of struggle internationally. This kind of generalisation is not easy to make because the struggle is always at different levels and taking different forms in different countries.
In the 1930s, several years before the beginning of the Spanish Civil War the poet Antonio Machado imagined his country as a rusting suit of armour lying on the harsh brown soil of Castile. It was an image of a once imperial power that had lost its empire.
Thousands of mainly young people are involved in the new movement in Spain. Young people have suffered from poor employment conditions, poor wages and temporary contracts for years.
Miguel: "Mass assemblies take place in the square. These deal with the practical points of what to do the next day or in the next week.
Police violently attacked the protest camp in Barcelona on Friday of last week.
From the Arab revolutions to the protests sweeping Spain, militant mass mobilisations have had a tremendous impact this year. New activists have been brought into struggle.
Labour Party leaders generally don’t like bothering to set out socialist philosophy. The very idea is considered a bit vulgar, and likely to put off voters. Traditionally they have tended to presume that all that was necessary was to show people that Labour had plans for a better, more prosperous Britain than the Tories.
Many say that if the government’s health and social care bill were passed in its present form it would mean the end of the NHS as we know it. Does that overstate the threat?
