Seumas Milne



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Full name: Seumas Milne

Area of interest: Politics, Middle East, eastern Europe, languages (French, Russian, Arabic, Italian), history, music and economics

Journals/Organisation: The Guardian

Email: [mailto:s.milne@guardian.co.uk s.milne@guardian.co.uk]

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Website: http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/seumasmilne

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Networks: https://twitter.com/#!/SeumasMilne



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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



Books & Debate:

 * Economic perspectives: a reprint of three articles OCLC 52021521, 1987
 * Beyond the Casino Economy OCLC 19628157 – with Nicholas Costello and Jonathan Michie, 1989
 * The enemy within : MI5, Maxwell and the Scargill affair OCLC 31923911, 1994
 * Making markets work : contracts, competition and co-operation OCLC 38520039, 1997

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Remit/Info: domestic and international politics, economics

Section: Comment

Role: columnist and associate editor

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Email: [mailto:s.milne@guardian.co.uk s.milne@guardian.co.uk]

Website: Guardian.co / Seumas Milne

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 * The Tories should not whoop too soon over Jeremy Corbyn - He has already defied conventional political wisdom. With support from his own MPs, he can do the same on the national stage - 1st October 2015
 * It’s the British establishment that has a problem with democracy - The elite has little time for elections that deliver the wrong results. And Jeremy Corbyn’s was one of them - 24th September 2015
 * Jeremy Corbyn’s victory has already transformed politics - If the Labour leader’s supporters keep their heads, his election can break open the political system - 17th September 2015
 * Western bombs won’t defeat Isis. Only a wider peace deal can draw its poison - If MPs authorise military action in Syria, they will be voting to escalate both the war and refugee crisis - 10th September 2015
 * China can ride out this crisis. But we’re on course for another crash - Market mayhem is the product of the aftershocks of 2008. No wonder calls for alternatives are growing - 27th August 2015
 * Jeremy Corbyn’s surge can be at the heart of a winning coalition - A democratic eruption is transforming Labour. If it continues, it can change the electoral landscape too - 20th August 2015
 * It’s not migrants who are the marauders and plunderers - Britain has no refugee crisis and Europe’s can be managed. But western wars have driven it - 13th August 2015
 * Win or lose, Jeremy Corbyn has already changed the rules of the game - In six weeks, Labour’s outsider has forced anti-austerity on to the agenda and created a national movement - 6th August 2015
 * The crucifixion of Greece is killing the European project - This attempt to turn Athens into a debt colony will fail – and open the way to the breakup of the eurozone - 17th July 2015
 * There’s no reason to accept austerity. It can be defeated - The Tories don’t have a mandate for what they’re set to unleash. Opposition has to go beyond parliament - 19th June 2015
 * Now the truth emerges: how the US fuelled the rise of Isis in Syria and Iraq - The efforts of western states are fruitless – the sectarian terror group won’t be defeated by the same power that incubated it in the first place - 4th June 2015
 * This New Labour revival could end with a party split - This leadership contest is being led by a Blairite agenda. But the debate demands the voice of the left - 21st May 2015
 * The Tories are plotting a coup in the name of legitimacy - Every anti-democratic lever will be pulled to block a Miliband government. Labour has to turn the tables - 7th May 2015
 * The big lie of economic success may still not save the Tories - Conservative and Liberal Democrat pretensions of financial wizardry are absurd. They have failed even in their own terms - 30th April 2015
 * Playing the anti-Scotland card is Cameron’s desperate last resort - Scaremongering about the SNP is an attempt to divert attention from Britain’s fundamental choice - 23rd April 2015
 * The US isn’t winding down its wars – it’s just running them at arm’s length - Barack Obama is playing all sides against each other, but support for the Saudi war in Yemen will only spread conflagration in the Middle East - 9th April 2015
 * The demonisation of Russia risks paving the way for war - Politicians and the media are using Vladimir Putin and Ukraine to justify military expansionism. It’s dangerous folly - 5th March 2015
 * Paris is a warning: there is no insulation from our wars - The attacks in France are a blowback from intervention in the Arab and Muslim world. What happens there happens here too - 15th January 2015
 * Corporate feasting will devour the NHS - This A&E crisis will seem small beer if Cameron gets to carry out his cuts and privatisation plans - 9th January 2015
 * All over the world, the challenge to the old order is growing - The powers that be will fight back against attempts to change the status quo, economically or globally - 1st January 2015
 * Deficit mania and balanced budgets are a political fraud - George Osborne's cuts-without-end plan has backfired, but the political class is in thrall to economic nonsense - 18th December 2014
 * Sending troops to protect dictators threatens all of us - CIA torture, crushing democracy and Britain's new military base in Bahrain all deliver a toxic message - 11th December 2014
 * Cuba’s extraordinary global medical record shames the US blockade - From Ebola to earthquakes, Havana’s doctors have saved millions. Obama must lift this embargo - 4th December 2014
 * The centre cannot hold under austerity, in Britain or Europe - The crisis is polarising politics from Ireland to Spain, and Labour will sink unless it offers a real alternative - 6th November 2014
 * Public service strikers are standing up for the real Britain - David Cameron and Nigel Farage want to change the subject, but austerity and privatisation are slashing earnings - 17th October 2014
 * Europe’s sea of death for migrants is a result of war and escalating inequality - The carnage on our borders will only grow without a radical shift from an iniquitous and failed system - 9th October 2014
 * During the miners' strike, Thatcher's secret state was the real enemy within - The Tory leader's determination to brand not only miners' leaders but the Labour party as enemies of democracy was a measure of her extremism and determination for class revenge - 4th October 2014
 * From Tory tax cuts to the war in Iraq, we're lurching backwards - Cameron's Conservatives are replaying Thatcher and Blair. But it's a past we need to escape from - 2nd October 2014
 * Austerity has failed, and it isn’t only Labour’s core voters who want change - After Scotland, the need for Ed Miliband to make the case for radical reform couldn’t be clearer - 25th September 2014
 * Another western war won't end terror in Iraq or Syria. It will only spread it - Bombing and more intervention can't destroy Isis. The US is at the heart of the crisis in the Middle East - 18th September 2014
 * Salmond's Scotland won't be an escape from Tory Britain - Scots voting yes for social justice won't get it from a party signed up to corporate tax cuts as the recipe for independence - 12th September 2014
 * Far from keeping the peace, Nato is a threat to it - It was the prospect of Ukraine being drawn into the western military alliance that triggered conflict in the first place - 4th September 2014
 * Another war in Iraq won't fix the disaster of the last - The Yazidis need aid, but military intervention by states that destroyed Iraq will deepen the crisis now tearing it apart - 14th August 2014
 * Gaza is a crime made in Washington as well as Jerusalem - The carnage unleashed on the Palestinians is part of a decades-old routine that depends on western support - 6th August
 * We must end this collusion with terror in Colombia - As talks to end a 50-year war hang in the balance, violent repression carries on – and the US and Britain stand behind it - 31st July 2014
 * Gaza: this shameful injustice will only end if the cost of it rises - The idea that Israel is defending itself from unprovoked attacks is absurd. Occupied people have the right to resist - 17th July 2014
 * The tide is turning against the scam that is privatisation - The international revival of public ownership is anathema to our City-led elite. But it's vital to genuine economic recovery - 10th July 2014
 * They say Miliband's a loser – that's because they fear he could win - The Labour leader's 'leftwing' policies have struck a chord with the public. It's only private vested interests that can't abide him - 25th June 2014
 * More US bombs and drones will only escalate Iraq's horror - The Arab world has endured a century of western attempts to control the region. Only Iraqis can shape their future - 19th June
 * Michael Gove's toxic assault on schools is based on naked discrimination - By branding religious conservatism 'extremism' in Birmingham, ministers are making it clear that different rules apply to Muslims - 12th June
 * Newark shows how Labour can take the sting out of Ukip - Deregulation and insecurity feed the anti-immigration backlash. A break with failed policies can draw the poison - 5th June 2014
 * Coups and terror are the fruit of Nato's war in Libya - The dire consequences of the west's intervention are being felt today in Tripoli and across Africa, from Mali to Nigeria - 22nd May 2014
 * The rise of Europe's far right will only be halted by a populism of the left - Ukip's advance is part of a wider discontent, fed by EU-wide austerity and revulsion against an anti-democratic stitch-up - 15th May 2014
 * Pfizer v AstraZeneca: big pharma needs a public stake, not a praying mantis - This takeover bid is bad for both Britain and the United States, and part of a corporate regime that's delivered economic failure - 8th May 2014
 * It's not Russia that's pushed Ukraine to the brink of war - The attempt to lever Kiev into the western camp by ousting an elected leader made conflict certain. It could be a threat to us all - 1st May 2014
 * This war on 'Islamism' only fuels hatred and violence - Tony Blair's anti-democratic tirade chimes with David Cameron's toxic manoeuvring at home and in the Muslim world - 24th April 2014
 * Ed Miliband will fail if he gives in to the sirens of austerity - Hollande's rout in the French local elections shows the price to be paid if Labour embraces cuts and corporate power - 17th April 2014
 * Venezuela shows that protest can be a defence of privilege - Street action is now regularly used with western backing to target elected governments in the interests of elites - 10th April 2014
 * Budget 2014: George Osborne's record is a dismal failure even in his own terms - The chancellor's claim to be 'winning' is bizarre. He has presided over the longest fall in living standards since the 1870s - 20th March 2014
 * The clash in Crimea is the fruit of western expansion - The external struggle to dominate Ukraine has put fascists in power and brought the country to the brink of conflict - 6th March 2014
 * Climate change deniers have grasped that markets can't fix the climate - The refusal to accept global warming is driven by corporate interests and the fear of what it will cost to try to stop it - 20th February 2014
 * A 'pause' in centuries of British wars is not enough - Britain's record of continuous conflict has no parallel. Now the elite is panicking that they can't get away with it any more - 13th February 2014
 * We need a counterweight to City and corporate power - Any further weakening of Labour's links with the unions will only deepen the crisis of representation in the political system - 6th February 2014
 * In Ukraine, fascists, oligarchs and western expansion are at the heart of the crisis - The story we're told about the protests gripping Kiev bears only the sketchiest relationship with reality - 30th January 2014
 * 70 years of foreign troops? We should close the bases - US forces in Britain aren't defending the country but lock it into an empire in decline. It's past time for some independence - 23rd January 2014
 * Who's to blame for the crisis, bankers or benefit claimants? - Class is the real dividing line in British politics, but politicians only talk about the middle class. That will have to change - 16th January
 * First world war: an imperial bloodbath that's a warning, not a noble cause - Tory claims that 1914 was a fight for freedom are absurd – but then history wars are about the future as much as the past - 9th January 2014
 * Scapegoating migrants for our crisis will damage us all - The Tories and Ukip are vying to terrify the public about Romanians and Bulgarians. What's needed is protection at work and a crash housing programme - 2nd January 2014
 * If the whole world's a battlefield, that holds in Woolwich as well as Waziristan - Denying a link between western wars in the Muslim world and the backlash on our streets only fuels Islamophobia and bloodshed - 20th December 2013
 * Mission accomplished? Afghanistan is a calamity - British troops haven't accomplished a single one of their missions in Afghanistan. Like Iraq and Libya, it's a disaster - 19th December 2013
 * Mandela has been sanitised by hypocrites and apologists - The ANC liberation hero has been reinvented as a Kumbaya figure in order to whitewash those who stood behind apartheid - 12th December 2013
 * Mandela has been sanitised by hypocrites and apologists - The ANC liberation hero has been reinvented as a Kumbaya figure in order to whitewash those who stood behind apartheid - 12th December 2013
 * America isn't leaving the Middle East, unfortunately - The Iran nuclear deal is a product of the failure of the war on terror. It should at least hand more control to the region's people - 28th November 2013
 * Orthodox economists have failed their own market test - Students are demanding alternatives to a free-market dogma with a disastrous record. That's something we all need - 21st November 2013
 * Unite can't be left to resist Cameron's smear campaign alone - David Cameron and the Tory press have launched a retro anti-union drive to damage Ed Miliband. But it won't fly in today's Britain - 14th November 2013
 * Forbes calls Vladimir Putin the world's most powerful person. Don't be deluded - First thoughts: Putin is claimed by Forbes magazine to be more powerful than Obama. It's fantasy – the US remains overwhelmingly dominant - 31st October 2013
 * The grip of privatisation on our vital services has to be broken - From Ineos to energy, powerful interests are driving a 30-year failed experiment. Utilities belong in public hands - 29th October 2013
 * It's the spies, not the leaks, that threaten our security - The NSA-GCHQ machine is about global power, not protecting its citizens. US and British intelligence still fuel the terror threat - 24th October 2013
 * Cameron and Miliband: the stampede for a phoney centre ground is now over - Cameron is moving to the right. Miliband is breaking with a failed consensus. That can only be good for democracy - 2nd October 2013
 * Ed Miliband's critics' real fear is that he will win the election - Labour's leader is starting to shape a new social democratic programme. But if he bows to austerity it will be suffocated - 25th September 2013
 * If this is economic success for Britain, what would failure look like? - Lib Dems and Tories both claim the upturn as a vindication, but growth means nothing if living standards are in freefall - 18th September 2013
 * Labour's links with the unions are its greatest asset - The TUC speaks for mainstream Britain. The sooner Miliband digs himself out of this hole, the better for his party - 11th September 2013
 * An attack on Syria will only spread the war and killing - Instead of removing the chemical weapon threat, another western assault on the Arab world risks escalation and backlash - 28th August 2013
 * A 21st-century Nasser could give the Arab world its voice - Egypt's coup makers are phoney nationalists. But the goal of independence and social justice unites people across the region - 14th August 2013
 * Zero-hours contracts: in Cameron's Britain, the dockers' line-up is back - Driven by privatisation and corporate muscle, zero-hours casualisation is disastrous for workers, jobs and real recovery - 7th August 2013
 * Britain's royal family: cut this anti-democratic dynasty out of politics - The monarchy embodies inequality and fosters conservatism. An elected head of state is embarrassingly overdue - 24th July 2013
 * Miliband, Labour and Falkirk: the real problem is unions aren't influential enough - If Falkirk is used to weaken trade unionists' role in politics it can only entrench the closed circle of corporate power - 10th July 2013
 * Egypt, Brazil, Turkey: without politics, protest is at the mercy of the elites - From Egypt to Brazil, street action is driving change, but organisation is essential if it's not to be hijacked or disarmed - 3rd July 2013
 * Selling off RBS would defraud the public and damage economic recovery - Stephen Hester has been forced to leave the bank by George Osborne in his determination to accelerate privatisation - 13th June 2013
 * NSA and GCHQ: mass surveillance is about power as much as privacy - Western spying agencies are instruments of control and their record is disastrous. They have to be held to account - 12th June 2013
 * Corporate power has turned Britain into a corrupt state - Westminster lobbying is the least of it. Revolving-door colonisation of public life is a corrosive threat to democracy - 5th June 2013
 * Britain's wars fuel terror. Denying it only feeds Islamophobia - Those who send British troops to shed blood in the Muslim world must share the blame for atrocities like Woolwich - 29th May 2013
 * A Tory-led exit from Europe would unleash a carnival of reaction - The nationalist right has long set the agenda. Labour should back a referendum and make the progressive case for change - 15th May 2013
 * The west and its allies cynically bleed Syria to weaken Iran - If western politicians were really interested in saving lives, they would use their leverage to negotiate a settlement - 8th May 2013
 * Ed Miliband will fail if he locks himself into Tory austerity - Falling living standards make Labour favourite to win the next election. It needs policies to match the scale of the crisis - 1st May 2013
 * Shaker Aamer and the dirty secrets of the war on terror - The scandal of Britain's last Guantánamo inmate encapsulates the barbarity of a mutating conflict without end - 24th April 2013
 * It's time not just to bury Thatcher – but Thatcherism - She didn't save Britain or turn the economy round. We need to break with her failed model to escape its baleful consequences - 17th April 2013
 * 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 - 9th April 2013
 * Tunisia and Egypt need the Arab revolutions to spread - Conflict over religion and identity risks diverting attention from the battle for social justice and national independence - 3rd April 2013
 * Europe's flesheaters now threaten to devour us all - Cyprus risks deepening the eurozone crisis as austerity is failing across the continent. This is a tide that has to be turned - 29th March 2013
 * Iraq war: make it impossible to inflict such barbarism again - The US and Britain not only bathed Iraq in blood, they promoted a sectarian war that now threatens the region - 21st March 2013
 * This isn't self-determination. It's a Ruritanian colonial relic - The vote for British rule in the Falklands referendum dodges the point. It's time for a negotiated settlement with Argentina - 13th March 2013
 * Think there's no alternative? Latin America has a few - Not only have leaders from Ecuador to Venezuela delivered huge social gains – they keep winning elections too - 7th March 2013
 * Women are now to the left of men. It's a historic shift - Austerity has set female voters against Cameron, but that's only part of a global change shaping the politics of the future - 6th March 2013
 * George Osborne hasn't just failed – this is an economic disaster - Coalition austerity has delivered depression and a lost decade. Labour has to avoid locking itself into more of the same - 27th February 2013
 * Think there's no alternative? Latin America has a few - Not only have leaders from Ecuador to Venezuela delivered huge social gains – they keep winning elections too - 20th February 2013
 * Michael Gove is not just a bungler, he's a destructive ideologue - Tories will forgive his failures, so long as he backs privatisation and 1950s theme park schooling - 13th February 2013
 * Mali: the fastest blowback yet in this disastrous war on terror - French intervention in Mali will fuel terrorism, but the west's buildup in Africa is also driven by the struggle for resources - 23rd January 2013
 * There is a problem with welfare, but it's not 'shirkers' - This economic model isn't delivering jobs or decent wages. The real scroungers are greedy landlords and employers - 9th january 2013
 * Intervention in Syria risks blowback and regional war - The west's bid to ramp up the war in Syria will simply escalate the killing. Only negotiation can stop the conflict spreading - 19th December 2012
 * Blacklisting is the scandal that now demands action - Thousands have been driven out of work in Britain by corporate spying outfits. It's an outrage that calls for more than an inquiry - 5th December 2012
 * The elite's fear of a vote on Europe feeds a populist right - Rotherham's race rows may be a taste of toxicity to come. Labour support for a referendum would help draw the poison - 28th November 2012
 * It's Palestinians who have the right to defend themselves - The US and Britain stand behind Israel's onslaught on Gaza. Justice requires a change in the balance of forces on the ground - 21st November 2012
 * The Gulf protection racket is corrupt and dangerous folly - Sooner or later the Arab despots David Cameron is selling arms to will fall, and the states that backed them will pay the price - 7th November 2012
 * A roll call of corporate rogues who are milking the country - The scale of unpaid tax now outstrips the entire deficit. Forcing the elite to pay up is a matter of both justice and necessity - 31st October 2012
 * Americans would also gain from scaling back the empire - The presidential foreign policy debate showed how close the candidates were – and how far from their own public opinion - 24th October 2012
 * The end of the New World Order - The upheavals of the early 21st century have changed our world. Now, in the aftermath of failed wars and economic disasters, pressure for a social alternative can only grow - 20th October 2012
 * The first world war: the real lessons of this savage imperial bloodbath - David Cameron wants to turn the first world war into a focus of national pride. That should be resisted every step of the way - 17th October 2012
 * The Chávez victory will be felt far beyond Latin America - Popular support for Venezuela's revolution shows the growing space for genuine alternatives in the 21st century - 10th October 2012
 * Ed Miliband must move further and faster from New Labour - Miliband's conference speech will silence his critics. He should match it with policies that meet the scale of the crisis - 3rd October 2012
 * The only surprise is there aren't more Middle East protests - The Muslim eruption reflects a deep popular anger and blowback from US intervention in both Libya and Afghanistan - 19th September 2012
 * George Osborne has failed. The battle is now on for the alternative - Neither austerity nor the Tory right's cuts and deregulation will deliver growth. That demands direct public investment - 5th September 2012
 * Rail is a gigantic scam for siphoning off public money - Branson and FirstGroup have both gamed a disastrous privatisation. The case for public ownership is compelling - 29th August 2012
 * Don't lose sight of why the US is out to get Julian Assange - Ecuador is pressing for a deal that offers justice to Assange's accusers – and essential protection for whistleblowers - 22nd August 2012
 * The Bo Xilai and Gu Kailai scandal masks the battle for China's future - The melodrama of Bo Xilai's fall has been used to press for privatisation, but the global crisis demands an alternative - 15th August 2012
 * Intervention is now driving Syria's descent into darkness - Western and Gulf regime support for rebel fighters isn't bringing freedom to Syrians but escalating sectarian conflict and war - 8th August 2012
 * G4S should make it easier to beat the privatisation racket - Scandals are multiplying as the outsourcing drive intensifies. Where is the political voice to reflect a growing public revulsion? - 18th July
 * The London Olympics is a corporate lockdown, why not a Games for all? - London 2012 is turning into a sponsored security show, but the Games could be opened up to turn the ideal into reality - 11th July 2012
 * Private banks have failed – we need a public solution - The Barclays scandal has underlined the City's unmuzzled power. But it also offers a chance to take democratic control - 4th July 2012
 * Egypt's revolution will only be secured by spreading it - The first open election of an Arab president should boost the regional revolt. It needs to reach the Gulf heartlands of autocracy - 27th June 2012
 * Ownership is the key to the corruption of the media - Murdoch's grip on British politics was the product of corporate control of the press. Ending it is a democratic necessity - 13th June 2012
 * In Syria, foreign intervention will only shed more blood - The US and its Gulf allies are already fuelling sectarian conflict in their proxy war with Iran. The fallout could be disastrous - 6th June 2012
 * America's murderous drone campaign is fuelling terror - Hi-tech drone death squads are creating a dangerous global precedent, which will do nothing for US security - 30th May 2012
 * In or out of the eurozone, we must ditch this failed model - Europe's elites are trying to scare Greeks and Irish into swallowing austerity, but it's they who brought the economy to its knees - 23rd May 2012
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * in Libya would poison the Arab revolution'' - Western military action against Gaddafi risks spreading the conflict and undermining the democratic movement - 3rd March 2011
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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)
 * thirtysomething drama'' - The overnight: David Cameron was singing old Blairite refrains while Gordon Brown finally hit the right notes - 4th May 2010
 * 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
 * party has a mandate on cuts – because none has provided detail'' - Election debate failed to inform voters about plans for cuts - 1st May 2010
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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 *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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * of the grassroots'' - Conference season 09: Internal party democracy is creeping back - even in the face of Labour's impending defeat - 28th September 2009
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * up party funding'' - A new politics: Union funding provides an open, regulated and democratically accountable model for money in politics - 20th May 2009
 * 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)
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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)
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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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 * Hack watch: The security services and Whitehall have long kept dossiers on certain journalists but, characteristically, New Labour has widened the focus - as an internal cabinet memo obtained by the Guardian shows - Seumas Milne, Kevin Maguire, The Guardian, 22nd January 2001
 * Does he mean me? Alastair Campbell's diaries, published yesterday, are littered with casually abusive asides about the people he met. So what do Piers Morgan, Ann Widdecombe and his other victims think about their walk-on roles in his 794-page book? Oliver Burkeman reports - The Guardian, 10th July 2007