The gloomy shadows of the December revolt of 2008 — triggered by the police murder of Alexis Grigoropoulos — still loom large over the Greek capital
Twenty years after apartheid, the old freedom fighters of the ANC have come to reproduce the same structures of oppression against which…
Just before dawn this morning, at 4am, eight squads of riot police stormed the headquarters of Greece’s former public broadcaster ERT in…
So Russell Brand predicted a revolution on BBC Newsnight. With a rapid spitfire of cunning rhetoric he reduced Jeremy Paxman — the…
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As the antifascist left stages an impressive show of force and numbers, the government finally embarks upon a belated crackdown on the…
The real extremism is not of the far-left and the far-right, but of the fascist center. Golden Dawn’s strategy of tension ultimately…
There is no doubt Warren Buffet was right when he said that his side is making and winning the global class war.…
There have only been two world revolutions. One took place in 1848, the second took place in 1968. Both were historic failures.…
This Saturday, Egypt’s authoritarian neoliberal state — sustained by the military and the old security apparatus of the Mubarak regime, with crucial…
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