Established as a landmark victory for the climate movement, the CCC promised to hold governments to account. Today, it is understating the danger of climate chaos and impeding the radical action needed, says IAN SINCLAIR
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Rebuilding our manufacturing via socially responsible finance
FAWZI IBRAHIM argues that there will be no significant economic progress unless we re-invest in Britain's manufacturing base and find ways for reducing our dependence on the whims of private finance via state-run banks
A new and substantial government regime of industrial and regional economic aid must be established to begin to rebuild the industrial base. Where necessary, measures of public ownership should be adopted especially where vital industries are under threat.
The real ‘humanitarian threat’ isn’t Cuba but the United States, where poverty, lack of healthcare and illiteracy abound, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
ROGER McKENZIE draws attention to the much-neglected oral traditions of the global South that define the identity – and therefore the liberation – of its custodians
Labour movement history in Britain shows workers secured reforms through collective pressure and political representation, rather than being gifted from above, writes KEITH FLETT
CLAUDIA WEBBE looks at how Britain’s Nato ally has upped the stakes in its effort to silence domestic dissenting voices
IT is one thing to expose government’s policies and its incompetence and oppose the attacks on living standards, workers’ rights and welfare provisions, and it is another to come up with the policies that will take the country forward.
It is important to raise our ambitions above the relentless day-to-day struggle to defend pay, conditions and democratic rights — as important as these are — for perpetual defence leads to permanent subjugation. The time is ripe for the working class to stamp its authority on the situation and make politicians dance to our tune.
The crisis that plagues capitalism today is different from those of the 1970s, ‘80s or ‘90s. Capitalism is no longer upbeat with an all-conquering globalisation poised to take over the world, smashing national borders and crashing all opposition in the name of profit.
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