Do chefs dream of cloned sheep? Text the author originally intended to write as a comment to the excellent “Abolish restaurants” to perhaps give some hints to which directions…
TV Times - 16 - 22 August 2008 This week's highlight is Richard Dawkins heated attempt to convince religious opponents of the fact of evolution and of the need for science…
Bangladesh: carrot and stick - security forces fire on garment workers as government recalls unions Garment workers continue their agitations... and the uncertain role of unions.
Guyana sugar workers strike As workers at four sugar estates staged industrial action on Wednesday, the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GUYSUCO) has warned that their action has pushed back production even further and could result in a significant loss of revenue.
Garment workers strike ongoing in Thailand Garment workers continue their fight against the sacking of a union leader in Thailand.
Wildcat strike in Haringey Council Benefits and taxation workers in Haringey Council walked out yesterday at the suspension of two shop stewards following the national pay strike last month.
History and Hopelessness - Moishe Postone However difficult the task of grasping and confronting global capital might be, it is crucially important that a global internationalism be…
The peccadillos of Winston Churchill Following a few questions and misconceptions on the man himself, I thought I'd reiterate a few of them to balance things out a bit.
Bangladesh; garment workers attack factories as thousands wildcat and riot The ongoing unrest in the garment factories continues...
The Ghost, by Robert Harris (2008) Tom Jennings chuckles at a recent New Labour rat leaving the sinking ship.
Happy-Go-Lucky, directed by Mike Leigh (2008) Belying his miserabilist reputation, Mike Leigh’s new film Happy-Go-Lucky celebrates incorrigible optimism – but with the usual twists, finds Tom Jennings
Immigration: The Inconvenient Truth (Channel 4) and the White season, BBC 2 (2008) A rash of TV documentaries explain away tense British resident-immigrant relations with typical middle-class prejudice in reproducing forty years of media and state-managed mystifications of the ravages of capitalism, according to Tom Jennings.