Politicians from around the world last week gave up any attempt to stop global temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius.
Tory sleaze was back in the headlines this week when the Independent newspaper ran an exposé on PR firm Bell Pottinger.
Western powers, fresh from their intervention in Libya, are keen to assert themselves elsewhere.
The 30 November strike showcased the power of the working class. Whatever the Tories might claim in public, they know that this action rocked the government like no other.
The revolution in Egypt has inspired millions across the globe. Since the fall of Hosni Mubarak in February, after decades of dictatorship, the process of revolution has continued in every institution of Egyptian society.
The planned strikes on 30 November are our chance to tell the Tories what they can do with their austerity plans. Millions of workers across Britain are getting organised for the biggest strike here for decades.
Europe’s leaders breathed a sigh of relief when prime ministers George Papandreou in Greece and Silvio Berlusconi in Italy stepped down.
Results are rolling in. This week saw magnificent votes from the Unison, EIS and Nipsa unions to join the strikes on 30 November. They show the mood out there. Workers are up for a fight.
Every day the Tories launch some new assault on ordinary people. Their solution to the ongoing swirl of economic crisis is to force through as many attacks on workers as they can.
The parliamentary debate on Europe this week brought the rabid right of the Tory party out in force. They were fighting for a referendum on membership of the European Union (EU).
The TV news report opens with a close-up of a malnourished African child. As the world’s population reaches seven billion, we are told that overpopulation is the cause of poverty.
We are often told that people are selfish—so we have dog-eat-dog societies where everyone’s just out for whatever they can grab.
