IMF back Syriza demand for debt write off while EU leaders wish for soft coup

Last night (2 July) the IMF in effect put its weight behind the Syriza government and the call for a No vote (OXI) in the referendum. An image of Chile’s socialist president Allende, murdered in the 1973 US coup ‘backing’ the No vote captured for us both the contradictions and dangers of Sunday’s vote in […]

Syriza confirm electoralist road is wrong road to another world

It now appears that the Syriza’s insistence that the severe nature of what the Trokia demanded meant that the Greek people had to directly decide through referendum on whether or not to comply has been replaced with the more standard ‘We can decide for you’ of electoralist politics. That is unless the letter from Tsipras […]

On the Greek online funding campaign – lets not neo-liberalise solidarity

The ideas of each age tend to become that of the ruling ideology and we are seeing an extraordinary example of that at the moment. As a response the ECB/IMF attack on Greek democracy an online fund it campaign has been set up to fund the 1.6 billion interest owed and so far 1,863 people […]

Terrorist white supremacist suspect behind the Charleston murders

The terrorist white supremacist suspect behind the Charleston murders has been identified as Dylann Roof, a 21-year-old from Lexington County, S.C. In this photo he is wearing the apartheid-era South African flag and the flag of the racist Rhodesian state on his jacket. Another photos shows that his car had a ‘Confederate States of America’ […]