Migration in the age of Imperialism’s four horsemen: Part 1
For the past year a growing refugee crisis on Europe’s borders has allowed the political right to capitalise on xenophobic and paranoid fears spread by racist politicians and media. Even those who have rejected the more outrageous expressions have often accepted the classification of those seeking resettlement along the lines of the ‘deserving’ refugees and […]
Remember Fukushima – no to nuclear power
Just over 70 protesters on Saturday’s CND “Remember Fukushima – No to nuclear power” march in London. Near half the protesters were Japanese and there were a wide range of ages. We had a long march from Hyde park corner to Parliament. We stopped briefly at the Japanese embassy and had a noisy protest at […]
Autonomy! Autonomy! Autonomy! – Students occupy in the Republic of Macedonia
Over a thousand students have occupied university faculties in the Republic of Macedonia in protest against planned education reforms, reports Nick Evans Students took over SS Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje yesterday (11 February), declaring it an ‘autonomous zone’ under ‘student control’. This is the latest phase in a growing student movement: there have […]
Nine years since Hurricane Katrina: has anything changed?
Nine years on from the devastating Hurricane Katrina, Lois JC, who visited New Orleans last year to see how the city had changed, writes on the lasting impact of the disaster.
Tories push ahead with massive expansion of fracking – but will they face a backlash?
report by Ewan Nicolson The government pushed out an announcement last week that over half of Britain – up to 37,000 square miles of land from Scotland to the South East of England – will be opened up to tender for energy companies to bid for fracking rights. The land that companies will be able […]
Oxfordshire activists set up Climate and Flooding Alliance
Nick Evans reports on the Oxfordshire Climate and Flooding Alliance.
The floods: what can activists do?
Jonathan Neale argues that we need to be raising questions of climate change, be part of campaigns to make sure people are compensated, and organise to prevent cuts.