TV Times - 1 - 7 March 2008 This week's pick is a documentary which attempts to highlight the disenfranchisment felt by the UK's white working class.
Mexico: violence at university workers strike in Mexico City A tense strike and occupation at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) in the southeast of…
Bauer, Marx and religion - David McLellan McLellan discusses Bruno Bauer's critique of religion and its enduring influence on the young Marx.
Urban riots and their reportage - Tom Jennings, 1992 Tom Jennings’ 1992 essay on current affairs media and their coverage of urban riots
Vera Drake, dir. Mike Leigh, 2004. Film review – Tom Jennings Vera Drake vividly portrays the paradoxes of backstreet abortion without passing judgement.
Nepal; Terai ethnic strike ends with concessions The general strike called by Madhesi ethnic groups of the southern Terai plains region has ended with most of their demands granted.
Saul Williams, The Fader Label, 2005. Music review Review which finds that Saul Williams fails to translate potent political polemics into poetic musical magic...
Modern capitalism and revolution - Paul Cardan Paul Cardan (Cornelius Castoriadis) attempts to describe and analyse the features and dynamics of the fully-industrialised capitalist societies of the early 1960s.
Ethnic-political tensions fracturing the Nepalese nation-state In the Terai region of Nepal, on the southern plains, an indefinite general strike has been ongoing…
Department for Transport workers to strike The Public and Commercial Services Union today announced a one day strike on 29 February involving over 8,500 members working for the Department for Transport (DfT) and five of its agencies.
Make sacking easier - says think-tank Education unions have responded with anger to the recommendation of a conservative think-tank advocating making sacking of staff and pupil expulsion easier.
Anti-GM event at RISK: Creative Action in Political Culture, CCA, Glasgow, 2005. Art review – Tom Jennings. Report on an event mixing art and politics.