Costing employment: regulation, high pay and redistribution
Shutters are shut, graffitti scrawled over the surface. Windows display vacant rooms. Old signs have letters falling off. It’s nearly Christmas, but the streets are empty – except at the…
Silence the Stigma. Talk.
My mental health problems shape me. They are part of me – like a broken nose can change a face. As much as I want to run away from it,…
A Radical Idea: a bloggers solidarity?
“We’ve got to radicalise the mainstream media,” piped up one of the attendees, “That’s where every other revolution failed.”I tried to hide my scoffing, but I’ve never been able to…
Book Review: Counterpower, by Tim Gee
We are a generation facing failed economic policies, high expenses without the means to pay for them, a lack of employment opportunities that mirrors the Great Depression, and a government…
Wangari Maathai: a personal memorandum
It’s 1997. A girl lies curled up on the sofa watching the flickering images on the TV, perhaps a little passed her bedtime. They’re showing the presidential candidates, one of…
Neocolonialism: the blind spot of the West
It’s been a few months since I read Samir Amin’s Ending the Crisis of Capitalism or Ending Capitalism? but one of the key chapters remains a thought through everything I…
Riots Shock Doctrine: a right to freedom of expression
“Tory MP: Plain disgusting these riots, aren’t they? Youths ganging up… It’s immoral and raucous black thu- David Cameron: Blackberrys, you mean? I agree. Social networks have brought a plague…
London Riots: the fuel is not the ignition
Growing up in Nairobi, this isn’t the first time I’ve seen violence, or a riot. Burning cars, smashed windows, looting – I’ve seen it all before. But no riot comes…
We once were revolutionaries, and we can be again
When I wrote previously about the lack of vision within the current left, my hope was to create a call to arms. I hoped to start a discussion on where…
We once were revolutionaries
We once were revolutionaries. We believed in a better world, a just world, a world where every person was never alone. We inked pages with dreams for that world. We…
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