Comment & Analysis
g8: The struggle for socialism in Scotland
The experience of eight years of a pro-capitalist, pro-war New Labour government has graphically illustrated that Blair and Co are a party of big business.
Comment & Analysis
Comment & Analysis
g8: Is the threat of a nuclear war growing?
During the 1962 Cuban missile crisis the world stood on the brink of nuclear war, as representatives of two super powers, the USA and the Soviet Union, carried on their ’Cold War’ brinkmanship.
Comment & Analysis
g8: Is the threat of a nuclear war growing?
During the 1962 Cuban missile crisis the world stood on the brink of nuclear war, as representatives of two super powers, the USA and the Soviet Union, carried on their ’Cold War’ brinkmanship.
Comment & Analysis
g8: G8 can’t save the planet
The discussions on climate change at the G8 summit in Gleneagles seem doomed before they have even started.
Comment & Analysis
g8: Make poverty history – fight for a socialist plan
More than 20,000 people die each day in the neo-colonial world because of "extreme poverty".
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g8 summit: Privatising the rain
There are currently more than 2 billion of the world’s poorest people who have no access to clean water or sanitation.
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g8 summit: Privatising the rain
There are currently more than 2 billion of the world’s poorest people who have no access to clean water or sanitation.
Comment & Analysis
G8: Time is running out to save the planet
The world over there is a scientific consensus that global warming is a real and worsening problem.
World Economy
World Economy: Speculative activity surges in the global economy
One measure of the surge in speculative activity is the sharp rise in foreign exchange (FX) dealing. In September 2004 the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) published its sixth triennial survey of foreign exchange and […]
World Economy
World economy: Profits soar while wages fall
Seventy-three percent of those who were asked in a national opinion poll were in favour of increasing the top rate of income tax on incomes of greater than £100,000 from 40p in the pound to […]