London Progressive Journal Issue 111

Election 2010: Whoever Wins, We Are in for Cuts

It seems we’re already experiencing the post-election blues before we know what the outcome is! The Local Government Association, dominated at present by the Tories is already talking of slashing 25,000 jobs nationally. Prof. Tony Travers of LSE is predicting that it could be even more. The B...

‘Islamism’ in the Western Imagination

<i>In this 16-part series I have done my non-specialist's best to make comprehensive sense of a complex 'hot-button' issue, taking care to give empirical evidence and historical examples based on variety of accessible sources. My goal is to situate the dangerous escalation of the conflic...

Flexible Afghanistan War Objectives: And the Agony Grinds On

Washington and its willing mouthpieces in the media have for years been trying to sell us the preposterous war in Afghanistan. While they attempt to convince us that the war is predicated on a faultless military logic and moral wisdom, it remains in fact a tragic adventure with no decipherable...

The Greeks are Fighting for Us All

It is bad enough that the entire working population of Greece is being held hostage; that the country’s near future – and as most do not yet understand all of our futures in Europe – are being sacrificed in the name of an abstract fiscal austerity that masks the real interests of finance capit...

Chimes At Midnight: Football in Crisis

Last week, Portsmouth FC became the first top-flight football club in England to go into voluntary administration as a result of their massive debts, currently estimated at £86 million. Over the season so far, they have repeatedly failed to pay wages on time, owe the Inland Revenue millions in...