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Seize the Day

Our task is not to overthrow globalisation, but to use it as a vehicle for the first global democratic revolution.

An investigative journey through the forbidden lands of West Papua

The government doesn’t really want the GM debate it’s just launched, but let’s give it one anyway

Tony Blair has just ensured that Europe and the US continue to promote famine.

The West became rich by ignoring patent rules and protecting its industries. Poor countries should be allowed to do the same.

The war crimes case in Belgium illustrates the folly of Blair’s belief that the US is interested in justice

Short’s career as a licensed rebel casts light on our post-oppositional, post-modern politics

The figures which purport to show that the world’s poor are emerging from poverty don’t add up

The government won’t offer electoral choice; instead it has introduced voting gimmicks which will further undermine our faith in democracy

The way to check American power is to support the euro

The US is preparing to use banned weapons in Iraq

Every likely outcome of this war is a disaster

Does the US support the Geneva Convention or doesn’t it?

A humanitarian disaster is engulfing Africa as cash is poured into the war with Iraq and its aftermath

Those who support the coming war with Iraq refuse to see that it has anything to do with US global domination.

By tearing up the global rulebook, the US is in fact undermining its own imperial rule

Underlying the US drive to war is the need to open up new opportunities for surplus capital

The men who claim to be fighting “evil” on behalf of “good” are also funding one of the world’s dirtiest wars

Far from fizzling out, the global justice movement is growing in numbers and maturity