We are posting the following two articles by Mike Small on the current situation in Afghanistan. They were first posted on bella caledonia at https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2021/08/20/global-britain-britannia-unchained/ and https:bellacaledonia.org.uk/2021/08/17/falling 1. GLOBAL BRITAIN, BRITANNIA UNCHAINED 2. FALLING _______________ 1. GLOBAL BRITAIN, BRITANNIA UNCHAINED Liberal media went crazy for the Tory back-benchers sticking it to Boris Johnson in Westminster yesterday.…
The Guardian – a liberal defender of the imperialist world order
The following article from Media Lens examines The Guardian’s 200 year liberal record of supporting the imperialist world order. THE GUARDIAN – A LIBERAL BASTION OF THE IMPERIALIST WORLD ORDER The Guardian has been deluging itself with praise on reaching two centuries this year. Not that we would expect otherwise. As editor…
Can reason end this witch hunt – Standing with Ken Loach
Sarah Glynn, who is a member of Edinburgh RIC, posted this article about the media treatment of Ken Loach on bella caledonia. It has also been posted on the Edinburgh RIC blog. When, last week, I wrote about attacks on academic freedom in Turkey, I didn’t expect to be following that article with one about…
Two reviews of books on the Corbyn Project
Tony Greenstein reviews Left out: the inside story of Labour under Corbyn by Benjamin Pogrund and Patrick McGuire as well Owen Jones’s This land: the struggle for the left. This article was originally entitled The Collapse of the Corbyn Project. There has been a marked reluctance by the Labour left to ask simple questions in the…
Ruling Class Corruption And Capitalist Crisis
The following article by John Tummon looks at the recent exposures of corruption in the Tory government highlighted by the cronyism for Covid-19 contracts Government Covid cronyism extends both to the appointment to key positions in its decision-making framework and to its’ award of contracts for carrying out services and providing equipment. This has now…
A Very Unlikely Story – QAnon Movement
With the growth of conspiracy theories we are posting this article on the QAnon phenomenon by Paul Demarty first published in Weekly Worker. This is followed by a comment from John Lanigan. It seems we are living through a golden age of conspiracy theories. The vigorous state action required in response to the Covid-19 pandemic,…
Cultural Appropriation – A Reactionary Debate
E&L has appreciated the significance of cultural arena in the struggle for self-determination. We are posting this article by Gearoid O’Loingsidh which addresses the issue of cultural appropriation. In the world of identity politics and the myriad expressions of it, one topic pops its head up on a fairly regular basis, that of Cultural Appropriation.…
‘FAR LEFT FASCISM’: THE NON-EXISTENT DISORDER
As part of our continuing coverage of the political situation in the USA, we are posting this article by Susan Pashkoff. This was first posted by Socialist Resistance. ‘FAR LEFT FASCISM’: THE NON-EXISTENT DISORDER As I watched the coronavirus pandemic spread globally and the resulting global economic crisis my only thoughts were…
IDEOLOGY AND SCIENCE
In the political climate since the 2008 Financial Crisis and now with the Coronavirus pandemic, there has been a marked increase on anti-science thinking. Whilst particularly prevalent on the Far Right, such thinking has spread far wider. Thus article, first posted by Socialist Democracy (Ireland), examines this phenomenon in relation to the coronavirus pandemic. …
BBC’s WAR ON CORBYN
Tony Greenstein takes apart the BBC’s Panorama programme Is Labour anti-Semitic? providing the Right wing, racist and Islamophobic background of its producer, John Ware and highlighting the tendentious biased techniques used in its production. BBC’S WAR ON CORBYN As John Pilger has long argued, the BBC is the most refined propaganda service in…