Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

Insecurity and the New World of Work " Since 2007*, almost all the aggregate increase in employment in the UK is accounted for by ‘ non-standard jobs’ , according to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). These included low-pay self-employment, ‘flexible’ and zero-hours contracts and part-time work."

Apparently, Tunisia is the only Arab country where women have the legal right to abortion.

Just another news item "As the rescuers approached, they found overloaded wooden vessels and rafts that evoked scenes of the slave trade."

The Wikileaks Files: The World According to U.S. Empire

A new YouGov poll  has found the British public are generally proud of the British Empire and its colonial past.

The Great Libya War Fraud

The Secret History of Colombia’s Paramilitaries and the U.S. War on Drugs

The Structure of Modern Imperialism

Did Human Rights Watch Sabotage Colombia’s Peace Agreement?

This is an  edited extract from Neil Davidson's forthcoming book  Peregrine Worsthorne, then associate editor and columnist with the ultraconservative London Daily Telegraph wrote in response to a survey conducted on the centenary of Marx’s death: “Being very conscious of the existence of the class-war, I have to admit to being very influenced by Marx without whose writings this idea would never have become so all pervasive. ... I am a Tory-Marxist, in the sense of accepting the need to take sides in the class war, even if, so to speak, on the other side.” More recently, Niall Ferguson has commented in an interview: “Something that’s seldom appreciated about me...is that I am in sympathy with a great deal of what Marx wrote, except that I’m on the side of the bourgeoisie.” However–and where conservatism becomes interesting–in so far as it supports the existence of capitalism, it embodies a contradiction which has from time to time produced intellectually fruitful result...

The return of Mao: a new threat to China's politics

From a defender of the system " The years ahead will be ones of economic dislocation and stagnation.  Britain has moved over the past 50 years from being one of the most equal countries in Europe to the most unequal."

Well, yes. The clinton's history is a history of crime at home and abroad. Davis on the Clintons

" [I]ntelligent philosophical Conservatism is actually closer to Marxist analysis than liberalism in any of its forms." — Neil Davidson On Corbyn and the Blairites