Biography:
About:
Education: Balliol College, Oxford: Politics, Philosophy and Economics; Birkbeck College, London: Economics
Career: Straight Left newspaper: Business Manager, 1979; The Economist: staff journalist, 1981/1984; The Guardian: general reporter 1984/1990, labour correspondent (Europe) 1990/1995, labour editor 1995, reporting from the Middle East, eastern Europe, Russia and Latin America, comment editor 2001/2007
Current position/role: columnist and associate editor
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Other activities: The Guardian, FoC 1987/1991; NUJ: National Executive Council 1989/2000
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Video: Regular radio and TV interviews, panels since 1980’s
- Consultant: Channel 4 Dispatches, 1991
- Co-made Dispatches with Ray Fitzwalter and Observer Films, 1994
Controversy/Criticism: Andrew Anthony: Wishful thinking and evasion Comment is free, 20th December 2007
Awards/Honours: George Orwell Prize for journalism (shortlisted), 1995; London Press, Scoop of the Year, 1999; What the Papers Say, Scoop of the Year, 1999
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Other: Youngest son of Alasdair Milne, the former Director General of the BBC
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Articles:
- If there were global justice, Nato would be in the dock over Libya - Liberia's Charles Taylor has been convicted of war crimes, so why not the western leaders who escalated Libya's killing? - 16th May 2012
- European elections: if the left doesn't lead revolt against austerity, others will - The French and Greek elections have already shifted Europe's politics. But it needs real change to hold the right at bay - 9th May 2012
- London mayoral election: if politics becomes a game show, elites call the shots - The only reason Johnson is favourite in the capital's mayoral campaign is because it's turned into a version of The X Factor - 25th April 2012
- George Galloway and Jean-Luc Mélenchon expose a huge political gap - The rise of France's 'third man' and Bradford's by-election both show a left populism can win mass support in this crisis - 4th April 2012
- Budget 2012: George Osborne is stuck in a failed economic model, circa 1979 - Economic recovery demands we ditch the myth that private rather than state investment drives industrial innovation - 21st March 2012
- Massacres are the inevitable result of foreign occupation - The latest slaughter in Afghanistan is part of a decade of savage civilian killing: until Nato leaves, it is certain to continue - 14th March 2012
- Crony capitalism feeds the corporate plan for schools - Michael Gove's drive to turn schools into academies opens the way for a privatised model that doesn't deliver results - 15th February 2012
- Syria: what can be done? - Five commentators discuss the merits of five ways in which the outside world could respond to Syria's crisis - 10th February 2012
- Intervention in Syria will escalate not stop the killing - Russia and China blocked a bid to force regime change. But a negotiated settlement is the only way out of civil war - 8th February 2012
- It's not too late to save the NHS from the barbarians - To the Tories, health is a huge untapped business opportunity – but the backlash could still derail their privatisation bill - 25th January 2012
- China's economic success challenges US and British failed market consensus - Public ownership of banks and corporations gave China the strength to ride out the west's crisis - 18th January 2012
- Ed Miliband will have to take on the Blairite zombies - Labour won't win credibility by backing cuts but by turning the rhetoric about a new economy into hard policy - 11th January 2012
- A Thatcher state funeral would be bound to lead to protests - The Tory prime minister wasn't a great leader. She was the most socially destructive British politician of our times - 5th January 2012
- The 'Arab spring' and the west: seven lessons from history - Drawing on the Pathé News video archive, Seumas Milne picks out the recurrent themes of imperial efforts to control the Middle East - 20th December 2011
- War on Iran has already begun. Act before it threatens all of us - Escalation of the covert US-Israeli campaign against Tehran risks a global storm. Opposition has to get more serious - 8th December 2011
- This strike could start to turn the tide of a generation - It's not just the scale of the walkout but the breadth that sets it apart: the 'big society', but not as Cameron meant it - 1st November 2011
- Five reasons public service workers are right to strike - David Cameron calls Wednesday's strikes the 'height of irresponsibility'. In fact they are a basic democratic necessity - 28th November 2011
- Egypt has halted the drive to derail the Arab revolution - The uprisings across the Arab world have been crushed, hijacked and poisoned. But Egyptians have taken back control - 24th November 2011
- The City of London isn't a national interest – it's a class interest - In their resistance even to a Tobin tax, captive British politicians ignore the havoc unleashed by overweening finance - 17th November 2011
- The elite still can't face up to it: Europe's model has failed - These bailouts are for the banks, not Greece – and they're deepening the crisis of democracy at the heart of the EU - 3rd November 2011
- If the Libyan war was about saving lives, it was a catastrophic failure - Nato claimed it would protect civilians in Libya, but delivered far more killing. It's a warning to the Arab world and Africa - 27th October 2011
- The Occupy movement has lit a fire for real change - Establishment praise for the Occupy protests reflects anxiety at public anger – which needs to be turned into political pressure - 20th October 2011
- The class interests at the heart of David Cameron's plan - The Conservative party is effectively the political wing of the City of London. No wonder it can't lead Britain out of this crisis - 6th October 2011
- Now Ed Miliband's challenge is to put his stamp on his Labour party - After the most radical speech by a leader for a generation, Miliband must turn the brave talk into a winning platform - 29th September 2011
- Only radical action will drag the economy from the brink - Coalition ministers know austerity isn't working, but they're locked into it. Labour needs to grasp the political opportunity - 22nd September 2011
- 9/11: A 'babble of idiots'? History has been the judge of that - The Guardian's comment editor at the time of 9/11 on a savage response to those who foresaw the reality of a war on terror - 5th September 2011
- Libya's imperial hijacking is a threat to the Arab revolution - Only when those who fought Gaddafi force Nato to leave will Libyans be able to take control of their country - 25th August 2011
- These riots reflect a society run on greed and looting - David Cameron has to maintain that the unrest has no cause except criminality – or he and his friends might be held responsible - 11th August 2011
- Murdoch: This scandal has exposed the scale of elite corruption - Cameron wants to bury the collusion uncovered in the hacking revelations but it's part of a growing crisis of official Britain - 21st July 2011
- Continuity Labour' is the real roadblock to renewal - If Ed Miliband is going to be able to offer a credible alternative, he'll need a counterweight to the New Labour nostalgics - 14th April 2011
- Ignoring its imperial history licences the west to repeat it - The former colonial powers who now fly the flag of protection and rights as they go to war will not deliver either - 7th April 2011
- There's nothing moral about Nato's intervention in Libya - The attacks on Libya risk a bloody stalemate and are a threat to the region. The alternative has to be a negotiated settlement - 24th March 2011
- The fate of the Arabs will be settled in Egypt, not Libya - If Egyptians can build a genuinely popular democratic system, all the dominoes in the region will eventually fall - 17th March 2011
- The fallout from the crash of 2008 has only just begun - Spiking oil prices risk derailing recovery, but politicians cling to the failed economic model that lies behind them - 10th March 2011
- Intervention in Libya would poison the Arab revolution - Western military action against Gaddafi risks spreading the conflict and undermining the democratic movement - 3rd March 2011
- Cameron's scapegoating will have a chilling, toxic impact - Blaming Islamists and multiculturalism for the backlash from US and British wars risks fuelling violence on the streets - 10th February 2011
- The forces unleashed in Egypt can't be turned back - The upheaval spreading across the Arab world is at heart a movement for self-determination. The west resists it at its peril - 3rd February 2011
- Only authentic leaders can deliver a Middle East peace - This week's leaks have exposed the dangerous folly of US and British attempts to control and divide the Palestinians - 27th January 2011
- Student protests: Both students and markets are upending the case for cuts - Economic crisis across Europe and growing opposition at home are starting to cut the ground from under the coalition - 25th November 2010
- Len McCluskey's election will bolster cuts resistance – and Ed Miliband - There's nothing backward about a style of trade unionism that puts the emphasis on organising in the workplaces of the future - 23rd November 2010
- The corporate grip on public life is a threat to democracy - The revelation that health policy has been handed to the private sector exposes a crony capitalism that has to be overturned - 18th November 2010
- Obama needs a Tea Party of his own to deliver change - The beleaguered US president may be the head of an imperial system. But he can still wind down the war on terror - 4th November 2010
- The Bullingdon boys want to finish what Thatcher began - The Tories and Lib Dems are forcing through a battery of cuts for which they have no mandate. It is a kind of political coup - 21st October 2010
- Cameron's Tory backlash is a taste of things to come - The prime minister's mauling in Birmingham is a pointer to the strange alliances that could force a change of course - 7th October 2010
- Ed Miliband has to crack the whip to secure change - Labour's new leader is offering a real break with the past but he faces a potentially dangerous Blairite backlash - 30th September 2010
- Clegg has pushed his party closer to political slaughter - Cable has been licensed to soothe the Lib Dems with home truths about capitalism, but they have good reason to be fearful - 23rd September 2010
- This tide is already changing Britain's political landscape - As looming cuts start to weaken the coalition, Ed Miliband and the TUC are riding a wave of pressure for change - 16th September 2010
- The return of anti-union propaganda - It's a fine state of affairs when it falls to Francis Maude to point out that trade unions have a valid stake in the country's future - 14th September 2010
- If the cuts are to be derailed, there must be an alternative - Trade unions will need allies if resistance to coalition slash-and-burn is to succeed – as well as Labour to shift its ground - 9th September 2010
- Ed is the only Miliband who offers a genuine alternative - Labour's contest is now a straight fight between brothers – and David represents a return to a failed Blairite yesterday - 26th August 2010
- The transformation of Latin America is a global advance - The radical tide is about to be put to the test in Brazil and Venezuela. If support holds, it will have lessons for all of us - 19th August 2010
- Cameron could be forced to U-turn if there's a double dip - Mervyn King has as good as accepted that early cuts and a refusal to force state banks to lend are holding back recovery - 12th August 2010
- The US isn't leaving Iraq, it's rebranding the occupation - Obama says withdrawal is on schedule, but renaming or outsourcing combat troops won't give Iraqis back their country - 5th August 2010
- Now Afghanistan too shows the limits of American power - British troops are paying the blood price in Helmand, as they did in Iraq, of a now officially subservient relationship - 22nd July 2010
- We cannot allow the end of the NHS in all but name - The coalition is planning to privatise the health service in defiance of the evidence. But Labour is hamstrung by its record - 15th July 2010
- These strikes are good for China – and for the world - Factory protests against rampant exploitation could help shift the Chinese model in a way that would benefit us all - 1st July 2010
- For the Lib-Cons, this is an excuse to shrink the state - Next week the deficit hawks will have a field day, but Labour needs to shift ground if it's going to be a real opposition - 17th June 2010
- This attempt to rehabilitate empire is a recipe for conflict - Prepare for an outbreak of culture wars if Michael Gove's appeal to colonial apologists to rewrite school history is taken up - 10th June 2010
- If Gaza's relief is a step closer they won't have died in vain - The bravery of the global volunteers now running Israel's blockade has filled the vacuum left by leaders that sponsor it - 3rd June 2010
- Cameron's cuts and crisis in the eurozone spell disaster - Forcing austerity down the throats of fragile economies, in Britain and across Europe, risks years of stagnation and slump - 27th May 2010
- The right to strike is being threatened by the courts - Clegg's 'power revolution' won't include protection of a century-old freedom. But if Cameron wants to show the Tories have changed, here's his chance - 20th May 2010
- No new era, but the sound of an elite sharpening its axe - The Cameron and Clegg show won't seem so cute once the cuts bite, but if Labour backs another Blair, it will fail to benefit - 13th May 2010
- The last Brown and Cameron battle could be yet to come - The PM is planning one last stand after the votes are in. But if the Tories win outright, the fight for Labour's future will be on - 6th May 2010 (Cif at the polls)
- Cameron's thirtysomething drama - The overnight: David Cameron was singing old Blairite refrains while Gordon Brown finally hit the right notes - 4th May 2010
- Election 2010: Gordon Brown can't escape New Labour's record - The overnight: Watching Gordon Brown's interview with Jeremy Paxman, it's not hard to see why the prime minister is struggling - 1st May 2010
- No party has a mandate on cuts – because none has provided detail - Election debate failed to inform voters about plans for cuts - 1st May 2010
- If Brown's gaffe locks Labour in third, all progressives lose - Unless Labour recovers, Lib Dem votes will elect Cameron – killing hopes of a radical revival, let alone electoral reform - 29th April 2010
- Breaking the electoral mould may not have a happy ending - The Clegg tide has turned politics on its head, but could deliver a toxic stitchup supporters never dreamed of - 21st April 2010
- A people power fraud that promises mass privatisation - The reality of Tory Big Society rhetoric will be corporate control of schools and the breakup of the welfare state - 15th April 2010
- David Cameron's corporate chums stake their claim - If the Conservative leader's grasp of facts looked shaky, the interests of his backers were more solidly obvious than ever - 10th April 2010 *The real political battle will begin after the election - Even more important than who wins on 6 May will be the struggle over what to put in place of a failed economic model - 8th April 2010
- Budget 2010: Only public intervention can rebuild a wrecked economy - Cameron has no credible alternative to Labour's budget, which itself falls far short of what's needed to beat the private slump - 25th March 2010
- An assault on unions is an attack on democracy itself - The smearing of BA staff and demonisation of Unite as an alien force in politics are an attempt to deny basic representation - 18th March 2010
- Labour rolls over for BA's bullies - Brown has condemned Unite, but it's chief executive Willie Walsh who has forced the BA dispute to the point of a strike - 16th March 2010
- Voters are far ahead of the elite – so they'll get no say - Afghanistan should be at the heart of the election campaign. But it won't be because the main parties all support the war - 11th March 2010
- Labour's Foot mythology has finally run out of time - Attempts to use the early 80s meltdown to claim no party can succeed on a left-of-centre platform won't work any more - 4th March 2010
- This tide of anti-Muslim hatred is a threat to us all - The attempt to drive Islamists and young Asian activists out of the political mainstream is a dangerous folly - 25th February 2010
- Irish unity is inevitable - In addition to the political will for unification, there is a strong economic case that can no longer be ignored - 22nd February 2010
- This is no ripping yarn, but a murder to fan more conflict - The media may revel in a Mossad hit, yet Britain's response to a plot that could threaten its own citizens has been craven - 18th February 2010
- The lessons of Iraq have been ignored. The target is now Iran - The US military buildup in the Gulf and Blair's promotion of war against Tehran are a warning of yet another catastrophe - 4th January 2010
- Only pressure to withdraw can stop this blood price - Today Afghanistan's occupiers will start to signal retreat. But they are sacrificing its people for Nato credibility - 28th January 2010
- Haiti's suffering is a result of calculated impoverishment - Last week's earthquake was a natural disaster, but the carnage is a result of a punitive relationship with the outside world - 21st January 2010
- Brown may have survived. But the coup was a success - After last week's comic opera putsch, Blairites are back in charge – and calling time on a timid social democratic turn - 14th January 2010
- Terror is the price of support for despots and dictators - Egypt's complicity in the Gaza's siege underlines the role of western support for such regimes in the spread of war - 7th January 2010
- A decade of global crimes, but also crucial advances - US strategic defeat in Iraq, a discredited market model, China's rise and Latin American freedom offer hope for the world - 30th December 2009
- BA strike judgment is blatantly political - The injunction banning British Airways cabin crew from striking exploits anti-union law and will only ensure the dispute drags on - 18th December 2009
- The impunity of Israel and its allies will carry a price - Outrage over Tzipi Livni's arrest warrant would be better directed to the suffering of Gaza and the risks of a new eruption - 17th December 2009
- With cuts looming, the issue of who pays is paramount - Labour is finally playing the social justice card, but any attempt to slash jobs, pay or services will lead to industrial conflict - 10th December 2009
- London and Dublin must act to halt this deepening crisis - There is now a 'terrorist incident' every day in Northern Ireland, but Britain is allowing unionists to fuel the fire - 26th November 2009
- We can't buy peace in Afghanistan - The classic colonial practice of doling out cash to insurgents is even less likely to be effective in Afghanistan than it was in Iraq - 23rd November 2009
- The deathbed conversion has yet to deliver the goods - Labour is finally inching in the direction it should have taken years ago, but even now Brown can't stop triangulating - 19th November 2009
- The real lesson of 1989 is that nothing is ever settled - The fall of the wall brought freedoms, but also war and crisis. Now that is creating the basis for a new alternative - 12th November 2009
- The Tories' phoney war on Brussels is just posturing - Cameron claims to be defending national sovereignty. But when it comes to the City or the US, he's happy to ditch it - 5th November 2009
- Spying on us doesn't protect democracy. It undermines it - By branding protesters and mainstream Muslim activists as extremists, the police are effectively criminalising dissent - 29th October 2009
- Faced with such an attack, it would be folly not to strike - Postal workers have been left with little option. The real madness lies with those itching to pick a fight before an election - 22nd October 2009
- In a war for democracy, why worry about public opinion? - Escalation in Afghanistan is aimed at rescuing the credibility of western power, whatever Afghans or westerners might want - 15th October 2009
- We have been warned: the nasty party is still with us - Strip away the spin. Cameron's cuts and his friends in Europe give the lie to compassionate Conservatism - 8th October 2009
- If Labour loses, it will be the fruit of its fatal Faustian pact - Brown is moving away at last from his embrace of corporate elites, but it is likely to be too late to save his government - 1st October 2009
- Labour's forward Progress - Conference season 09: The dominant pressure group's rally was full of good cheer, while Compass's meeting was more subdued, with more politics - 28th September 2009
- Signs of the grassroots - Conference season 09: Internal party democracy is creeping back - even in the face of Labour's impending defeat - 28th September 2009
- New Labour, not just Brown, is to blame for this car crash - Another coup attempt is being prepared against the prime minister – and a bogus explanation for Labour's expected defeat - 24th September 2009
- Clegg and Cable lost in cuts confusion - Pandering to a rightwing agenda won't serve the Lib Dems' interests. It's looking like austerity without a purpose - 23rd September 2009
- The cuts agenda is a brilliant diversion from the real crisis - Cameron has managed to switch the agenda from market failure to public debt. If that sticks, it's a recipe for a Tory landslide - 17th September 2009
- Brown offers unions a sugared pill - The prime minister managed to sweet-talk some union leaders into swallowing his talk of cuts – but not everyone was convinced - 16th September 2009
- Unions limber up for a fight - At the TUC, the battle is on to protect public services from swingeing cuts – whether New Labour or Tory - 15th September 2009
- This rewriting of history is spreading Europe's poison - Blaming the USSR for the second world war is not only absurd – it boosts the heirs of the Nazis' wartime collaborators - 10th September 2009
- The Honduras coup is a sign: the radical tide can be turned - If this were Burma or Iran the assault on democracy would be a global cause celebre. Instead, Obama is sitting on his hands - 13th August 2009
- This crash created a historic opportunity. It isn't yet lost - Of course bankers stuff their pockets and put profits first. The scandal is that ministers have sacrificed jobs to let them - 6th August 2009
- There can be no Middle East settlement without Hamas - By throwing their weight behind repression on the West Bank, the US and Britain are only making a viable peace less likely - 30th July 2009
- The west widens the Fatah-Hamas split - Palestinian unity is essential for any peace deal – but the US, Britain and the EU are playing a central role in preventing it - 28th July 2009
- Even the Isle of Wight wants Miliband to buck the market - Wind turbine workers have shown only public action will deliver green jobs. The same goes for beating climate change - 23rd July 2009
- How many more will die in vain before we withdraw? - The attempt to exploit soldiers' deaths to win support for the shameful war in Afghanistan thankfully isn't working - 16th July 2009
- Our wartime propaganda - You'd never know from media reports that most British people want troops withdrawn from Afghanistan by the end of the year - 13th July 2009
- Our wartime propaganda - You'd never know from media reports that most British people want troops withdrawn from Afghanistan by the end of the year - 13th July 2009
- A culture of corruption has seeped far into government - Seumas Milne: Why do ministers still cling to discredited privatisation? Part of the answer must lie in the lure of the corporate embrace - 2nd July 2009
- Even in a slump, strikes and occupations can get results - Employers are hailing a revolution in industrial relations, but the message seems to have got lost at the sharp end - 25th June 2009
- Adrift in the mainstream - Gordon Brown has regrets, but can't bring himself to jettison the neoliberal policies that are alienating Labour voters - 20th June 2009
- These are the birth pangs of Obama's new regional order - The turmoil in Tehran reflects a refusal to accept Amadinejad is popular and confusion about how to respond to the US - 18th June 2009
- Either Brown acts decisively or immolation is certain - Now he has seen off the Blairite coup, the Labour leader's only chance is to meet voters' anger with a radical policy response - 11th June 2009
- When putsch comes to shove - The Blairite coup against Brown may have misfired, but beyond the plotting the very direction of the Labour party is at stake - 6th June 2009
- Whether Brown or Johnson, there's no New Labour fix - Blears and Hewitt are trying to spark a Blairite coup. But forcing Brown out now won't solve the the government's crisis - 4th June 2009
- After Iraq, it's not just North Korea that wants a bomb - The nuclear weapons states are the main drivers of proliferation. Only radical disarmament can halt their spread - 28th May 2009
- The return of the strike - From factories to universities, those at the sharp end of the economic slump are rediscovering the power of direct action - 26th May 2009
- Purge the professionals and let party democracy breathe - This meltdown creates opportunities as well as dangers. But more than technocratic fixes, we need real political choice - 21st May 2009
- Clean up party funding - A new politics: Union funding provides an open, regulated and democratically accountable model for money in politics - 20th May 2009
- This expenses scandal is a toxic boost for anti-politics - The scams are a legacy of New Labour's get-rich, ideology-lite culture. The remoralisation must go far beyond the Commons - 14th May 2009 (see: MPs' expenses: summary)
- Thatcher's legacy is in ruins, but Britain is still in its thrall - The Tory icon's economic reputation is based on a myth, yet even Labour seems unable to break with her inheritance - 7th May 2009
- The Iraq war has been a monstrous crime - Politicians crave a whitewash – but Britain must hold a fully open public inquiry into the bloodbath it helped to create - 2nd May 2009
- This naked display of class egotism has to be defeated - Let Michael Caine leave. Fairer taxes must be made to stick if we're to avoid the cuts in services Cameron has in mind - 30th April 2009
- Ignore the Tories. You can't cut your way out of a slump - An unholy alliance of Cameron, King and the CBI are trying to spook the public and the markets about debt - 9th April 2009
- Our leaders still aren't facing up to the scale of the crisis - It's hardly surprising that some want to trash the City, but to claim that the G20 protesters have no alternative is nonsense - 2nd April 2009
- This counter-terror plan is in ruins. Try one that works - Ministers want Muslims to accept shared values. Luckily they already do, including opposition to wars of aggression - 26th March 2009
- Will Israel be brought to book? - The evidence of war crimes in Gaza is a challenge to universal justice: will western-backed perpetrators ever stand trial? - 24th March 2009
- To free Iraq, resistance must bridge the sectarian divide - As anti-occupation leaders recognise, the US could still exploit their divisions in an effort to offset its strategic defeat - 19th March 2009
- A generation on, the miners' strike can speak to our time - Renewed attempts to blame Scargill for the coal industry's demise are absurd, but it's about the future as much as the past - 12th March 2009
- If this becomes Obama's war, it will poison his presidency - Pakistan is being ripped apart by the fallout from the Afghan occupation. If the US escalates, the impact will be devastating - 5th March 2009
- Rimington is right. This is a recipe for creating terrorists - New Labour's sins in the war on terror are catching up with it, but ministers want to shift blame on to the Muslim community - 19th February 2009
- We are all extremists now - liberty central: The government is criminalising legitimate dissent under the guise of fighting 'extremism', a word for which it has no definition - 17th February 2009
- Booing Davos Man is a start, but the crisis runs far deeper - Responsibility for this slump goes beyond a few greedy bankers. To beat it will mean ditching the ideology that fuelled it - 12th February 2009
- The target of this campaign of strikes is now obvious - Attempts to paint the week of walkouts as anti-foreigner look silly now that Polish workers are joining the protests - 5th February 2009
- Our flexible friends - The real theme of these strikes is not xenophobia but outrage at UK and EU rules designed to keep labour cheap and weak - 31st January 2009
- The seeds of Latin America's rebirth were sown in Cuba - There was one region that saw the bankruptcy of neoliberalism - and now the rest of the world is having to catch up - 29th January 2009
- Our banks are too important to be left in private hands - The case for public ownership has grown overwhelming - but Brown is hamstrung by ideological baggage - 22nd January 2009
- Business as usual won't halt the haemorrhage of jobs - After decisive action to save the banks, ideology is holding ministers back from the steps needed to stem the tide of recession - 15th January 2009
- Israel and the west will pay a price for Gaza's bloodbath - Whether the current ceasefire talks succeed or fail, Hamas has already been strengthened by the US-backed assault - 8th January 2009 (see: 2008–2009 Israel–Gaza conflict)
- Israel's onslaught on Gaza is a crime that cannot succeed - The US-backed attempt to bring Hamas to heel by overwhelming force is in fact more likely to boost the movement's appeal - 30th December 2008
- After such fraud and failure, privatisation is just reckless - Selling Royal Mail is throwback politics. As recession grips, ministers can't afford the luxury of facing both ways - 18th December 2008
- Britain leaves Iraq in shame. The US won't go so quietly - Obama was elected on the back of revulsion at Bush's war, but greater pressure will be needed to force a full withdrawal - 11th December 2008
- As the crisis bites, ministers must make a truly big leap - For all the changes, New Labour leaders still defer to corporate power. But they can't have it both ways for much longer - 4th December 2008
- The truth about South Ossetia - After the west heaped blame on Russia for the conflict, it ignores new evidence of Georgia's crimes of aggression - 31st November 2008
- Those who want real change will have to fight to get it - The election of Obama can still be a powerful catalyst, even if his policies spell continuity more than radicalism - 30th November 2008
- Not the death of capitalism, but the birth of a new order - The free-market model has been discredited and now its champions are panicking at what might emerge in its wake - 23rd October 2008
- Civilian dead are a trade-off in Nato's war of barbarity - The killing of innocent Afghans by US bombs is the result of a calculation, not just a mistake. And it is fuelling resistance - 16th October 2008
- The genie's out. Now they've shown what can be done - The scale of intervention in the banks will create demands for similar urgent action on jobs, industry and housing - 9th October 2008
- The Tories have shown they are irrelevant to this crisis - Cameron's calls for a smaller state ring hollow when only intervention and nationalisation can halt financial collapse - 2nd October 2008
- Whether Brown survives, Labour has already changed - The financial meltdown has allowed the prime minister to shift his rhetoric. The question now is if he will act on it - 25th September 2008
- The political class can't face up to the scale of this crisis - Financial meltdown spells the end of the free market model. It is a gift for any leader prepared to advance a new agenda - 18th September 2008
- Brown at least has a chance to act, courtesy of Miliband - The TUC and George Bush have shown the prime minister the kind of measures he needs to take for political survival - 11th September 2008
- Half measures and tinkering don't make a recovery plan - Brown could take effective action to turn the economy round, but he would need to recognise his own role in this crisis - 4th September 2008
- Georgia is the graveyard of America's unipolar world - Russia's defiance in the Caucasus has brought down the curtain on Bush senior's new world order - not before time - 28th August 2008
- The Afghan fire looks set to spread, but there is a way out - Far from being a noble cause, the occupation of Afghanistan is poisoning the region and will never bring peace or security - 21st August 2008
- This is a tale of US expansion not Russian aggression - War in the Caucasus is as much the product of an American imperial drive as local conflicts. It's likely to be a taste of things to come - 14th August 2008
- Miliband means more of the same. Labour needs change - Brown can face down the Blairite insurgency and meet the demands of the time, or crash and burn as a puppet prime minister - 7th August 2008
- Promotion of clients and stooges will get us nowhere - If the aim is to reduce the terror threat and boost integration, boycotts of mainstream Muslim events are no help at all - 17th July 2008
- This persecution of Gypsies is now the shame of Europe - Italy's campaign against the Roma has ominous echoes of its fascist past, and the silence of our leaders is deafening - 10th July 2008
- New Zealand is in tune with the times - Britain's lagging - The privatisation tide is turning, from Wellington to Caracas, but public intervention has to be at the cutting edge as well - 3rd July 2008
- Bush is trying to impose a classic colonial status on Iraq - 26th June 2008
- Today Ireland has a chance to change Europe's direction - The European elites are in a panic about the Irish referendum, which is shining a light on what they're actually up to - 12th June 2008
- A mania for tax cuts at any cost defies public opinion - 5th June 2008
- Corporate cherry-picking isn't delivering the goods - Whether in the postal service or energy supply, New Labour's embrace of market dogma has failed its own 'what works' test - 22nd May 2008
- Expulsion and dispossession can't be cause for celebration - The demand to make Palestinian rights a reality is no longer simply a matter of justice but also of self-interest - 15th May 2008
- New Labour is finished. The fight is over what replaces it - 8th May 2008
- Grangemouth's oil workers show how it can be done - The spate of strikes is a reaction to corporate and government pressure. If inequality isn't to grow, they need to succeed - 1st May 2008
- The national fallout from London will be felt for years - If Livingstone were to win against the odds, it would be a springboard to challenge the direction of Brown's government - 24th April 2008
- How come Zimbabwe and Tibet get all the attention? - If a government wants to abuse human rights and rig elections, it needs to have the support of - or be - the western powers - 17th april 2008
- Labour will have to change direction - or face defeat - 3rd April 2008
- Religion is now a potential ally of radical social change - Militant secularists are becoming apologists for capitalism and war, but the struggle is within faiths, not against them - 27th March 2008
- There must be a reckoning for this day of infamy - The Iraq catastrophe isn't down to mistakes or lack of planning, but a refusal to accept that people will resist foreign occupation - 20th March 2008
- Either Labour represents its core voters - or others will - 13th March 2008
- To blame the victims for this killing spree defies both morality and sense - Washington's covert attempts to overturn an election result lie behind the crisis in Gaza, as leaked papers show - 5th March 2008
- A system to enforce imperial power will only be resisted - Far from rehabilitating liberal interventionism, the Kosovo experience has exposed the fatal flaws that lie at its heart - 28th February 2008
- We need to listen to the man from special branch - In this climate of anti-Muslim rage, counter-terrorist police are talking more sense than the government or media - 14th February 2008
- The war that can bring neither peace nor freedom - The crisis of the Afghan occupation is a reminder of its fraudulent claims, growing cost in blood, and certainty of failure - 5th February 2008
- This is a chance to reverse casualisation and insecurity - The abuse of agency workers is fuelling racism and exploitation. MPs should use their power to give them equal rights - 31st January 2008
- The political choice facing London could not be clearer: The current onslaught on Ken Livingstone is driven by a neocon agenda, but the fallout could have a far wider social impact - 24th January 2008
- Northern Rock has exposed the reality of the free market: Takeover of the stricken bank should break the public ownership taboo - well overdue in light of privatisation's record - 17th January 2008
- Cameron must rein in these toxic neocon attack dogs: The exposure of faked evidence for a thinktank report is a warning of the dangers of Britain's anti-Muslim media campaign - 20th December 2007
- This crisis spells the end of the free market consensus: The credit squeeze is set to trigger the end of the boom that has shaped our times. Politics is going to change with it - 13th December 2007
- Chávez's revolution cannot stand still if it is to survive: The fate of Venezuela's experiment will be felt beyond its borders, but the dictatorship canard has now been put to rest - 6th December 2007
- A pointless attack on liberty that fuels the terror threat: Ministers set on locking people up without charge should listen to the Muslim mainstream, not the neocon fringe - 8th November 2007
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