I have only ever known Julian Assange in detention. For nine years now, I have visited him in England bearing Australian news and solidarity. To Ellingham Hall I brought music and chocolate, to the Ecuadorian embassy I brought flannel shirts, Rake, Wizz Fizz and eucalyptus leaves, but to Belmarsh prison you can bring nothing—not a gift, not a book, not a piece of paper.
Climate Crisis
The New Green Deal Group: How to Pay for the Green New Deal: A Briefing
Debate in the 2019 election campaign in the UK has focussed on whether spending plans proposed by political parties are affordable. This, the Group argues, is to fundamentally misunderstand the way that government investment works. […]
Austerity
Paul Mason: The Italian crisis shows why the European left must break with the neoliberal EU
Without a radical realignment, social democrats in Italy and elsewhere face political extinction as racists and populists exploit this moment. Read here
Economics
Pepe Escobar: Who profits from Pipeline Terror?
The whole of Germany’s economy was planned based on cheap Russian gas. There was no Plan B. The German government tried everything to avoid interference with this plan, be it the dlimate crisis as economics […]
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