‘There hasn’t been a major breakthrough for the struggles from below since Laurent Gbagbo came to power in 2000.
There is no "mission creep" in the Western intervention in Libya. What is happening is "mission reveal".
President Ali Saleh, who has ruled Yemen for 32 years, announced last Saturday that he intended to stand down in 30 days.
Thousands of workers in Egypt continue to hold strikes and sit-ins as they fight for their rights under the new regime.
The American Civil War began 150 years ago this month when forces bombarded Fort Sumter, a government base in South Carolina. Some claim the war between Northern and Southern US states was about the rights of states. In reality, it was a conflict between two different ways of organising society.
More and more people are worried about the environment. Despite the efforts of climate sceptics, people can see that climate change is causing havoc around the world.
The Tories have launched an all-out attack on disabled people in Britain. As the economic crisis continues to bite, they have turned on people they consider are not making their contribution to society.
"I’ve got a degree and a qualification in law. But it took me over a year to get an interview for a job.
The Tory and media smear campaign against benefit "fraudsters" deliberately confuses fitness to work with disability. They want us to believe that only the "genuinely disabled" are unable to work.
All kinds of cultural expressions have had the term "postmodern" hooked on them—from architecture, literature and art to lifestyle. But postmodernism is also the ideological bedrock central to most universities.
When I first came across Manning Marable’s writing around 20 years ago, I had just come badly unstuck addressing a Socialist Workers Party meeting on the US Civil Rights Movement.
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable reviewed by Yuri Prasad
