Before 2011, Libya had achieved economic independence, with its own water, its own food, its own oil, its own money, and its own state-owned bank. It had arisen under Qaddafi from one of the poorest of countries to the richest in Africa. Education and medical treatment were free; having a home was considered a human right; and Libyans participated in an original system of local democracy.
What has happened to the great tradition of popular direct action, unfettered to parties? Where is the courage, imagination and commitment required to begin the long journey to a better, just and peaceful world? Where are the dissidents in art, film, the theatre, literature?
Where are those who will shatter the silence? Or do we wait until the first nuclear missile is fired?
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An inquiry into claims a Westminster pedophile ring abused and murdered children has closed.
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Britain’s unrelenting quest to “stimulate growth” has left welfare for the most vulnerable increasingly depleted.
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A 120-patient trial showed patients taking cannabis-based Epidiolex were able to reduce their convulsive seizures by 39 percent.
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All the plastic humans are dumping into the ocean ultimately ends up in our stomachs.
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Here are some signs that America is finally ready to end the War on Drugs.
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Western media is using the reported number of 250,000 war dead as if they were all civilian victims of the government - which is far from truth
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I’ve never given a lecture before, so let me apologise in advance. I’ll be talking about things which some of you will know more about than me, I’ll touch on struggles that are not my own, and I’ll definitely get some of this wrong. I had second thoughts about doing this: guys with beards telling everybody how it is is […]
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The real crisis is not the influx of refugees to Europe, per se, but a toxic combination of destabilising foreign policy agendas, economic austerity and the rise of right-wing nationalism, which is likely to push the world further into social and political chaos in the months ahead.
