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The Junta’s Accomplices
If you want to support democracy in Burma, phone Gary Player and the other western businessmen propping up the generals.
An Idiot’s Referendum
People of all political colours are clamouring to answer a meaningless question.
The Fat Cats Protection League
Wherever you hear the words “free market”, you’ll find massive state handouts to corporations
How Did We Get Into This Mess?
Many of our current crises are the long-term results of a meeting which took place 60 years ago
Beneath the Pall of Misery, a New Movement Is Born
The climate camp at Heathrow is materially different from protests that have taken place in Britain before.
Attack of the Baby Eaters
The press has been publishing a series of crazy scare stories about our intentions at the climate camp
Selling Ecocide
Is it time to consider a ban on the adverts which help to cook the planet?
This Is Now a Protest for Democracy
To win an injunction against protests at Heathrow airport, BAA used a law which threatens our democratic rights
Drumming Up a New Cold War
By signing up to Bush’s missile defence programme, the British government shows it doesn’t give a damn about either peace or democracy
Eco-junk
Green consumerism will not save the biosphere
Union With the Devil
The trade unions still rage about the class war, but keep funding their class enemies.
A Sudden Change of State
A new paper suggests we have been greatly underestimating the impacts of climate change – and the size of the necessary response.
Heat is now out in paperback
With new material and supported by new web resources.
Not What It Says on the Tin
Even in the rich nations, the babymilk manufacturers are undermining breastfeeding
Debate with Clive Hamilton
In which we battle over carbon targets, green tokenism and the economics of climate change.
The Conspiracy Widens
A final response to Alexander Cockburn.
Someone Else’s Legacy
Everywhere they go, the Olympic Games become an excuse for eviction and displacement.
Without Principle
New revelations show that Blair’s government is as corrupt as any of those it criticises.
Breast Beating
The G8 has the interests of the rest of the world at heart – until they conflict with its own.