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Books \ climate change \ environment \ interview \ John Cowsill
John Cowsill: how do we get to a safe planet?
We spoke to local author John Cowsill, who’s forthcoming book Safe Planet comes out on the 26th September. Why did you write this book? My next door neighbour asked me that question two years ago. ‘Anger’ was my initial one word reply. The anger is rooted in the knowledge that the world has enough resources […]
Author: Janette Evans \ Barnet \ Barnet housing Action Group \ benefits \ Housing \ job centre \ Protest \ report \ Reverend Paul Nichols \ Unite \ Wood Green
No sanctions – no targets – action at Wood Green job centre
by Janette Evans When I first got the idea for Barnet Housing Action Group to hold a protest outside the job centre in Wood Green – it was for very personal reasons; my daughter had moved into the hostel at the Y.M.C.A. and I had got to know a few of the young people there […]
Author: Jim Jepps \ Film \ LGBT \ Miners' strike \ Pride \ Review \ trade unions
Review: Pride – a brilliant, feel good story
Review of Pride, out today, by Jim Jepps. For people of my generation The Miners’ Strike of 1984 was a defining moment. For good and ill, it shaped our ideas and beliefs about this country for decades to come. Just like the movement against the Iraq war it was not only a set of events that […]
ethics \ fashion \ interview \ Tansy Hoskins
Interview: Tansy Hoskins – Can fashion ever be ethical?
The North London Star spoke to Tansy Hoskins, author of Stitched Up – the anti-capitalist guide to fashion in the run up to her Camden talk ‘Can fashion ever be ethical?’. How unethical are the clothes most of us buy? The fashion industry is a deregulated, subcontracted, trend-based industry that relies on selling billions […]
Author: Jim Jepps \ Book review \ Dear Nora \ Julie Bindell \ LGBT
Dear Nora: I read a book by Julie Bindel… and I liked it
Dear Nora, I have a very delicate and personal problem, please help me, I’m desperate. You see, it all started when I was looking for some holiday reading. On a whim I picked up Julie Bindell’s new book “Straight Expectations” thinking “well, if nothing else I can write a scathing review of it.” It started […]
Caroline Russell \ Green Party \ interview \ Islington \ Islington council
Meet the opposition on Islington Council. Her name is Caroline
Little did Caroline Russell (twitter) know when she stood for election to Islington Council earlier this year that every single seat on the council, bar hers, would be taken by Labour – leaving her the sole opposition on the council (and one of four Green councillors in London). We decided to have a chat to […]
Author: Jim Jepps \ Camden \ Natalie Bennett \ Patrick Harvie \ report \ Scottish Independence
Debating Scottish Independence in Camden
by Jim Jepps On Friday night Patrick Harvie, a Green Member of the Scottish Parliament, addressed a meeting in Camden Town Hall making the case for Scottish Independence. In a lively and informative meeting Harvie tackled questions of the currency, nationalism, the EU and what those who live in England can do. Harvie described […]
Author: Natalie Bennett \ Kilburn \ Review \ The Kilburn Passion \ Tricycle theatre
Review: The Kilburn Passion
by Natalie Bennett (a version of this article first appeared at blogcritics) Kilburn is a marginal area of London – on the edge, with lots of people living life on the edge, although as everywhere else in the city, the creeping force of gentrification is visible, at least occasionally. It’s a place of characters, of chances, of […]
TTIP: Trojan Horse for privatisation
by Linda Kaucher As awareness of the US/EU free trade agreement (TTIP – Trade and Investment Partnership) grows, so does resistance to it. This ‘trade’ deal is not about trade but about deregulation, increasing the rights and power of transnational corporations while decreasing democratic control over their activities. A central part of the deal […]
Solidarity with the Kurdish struggle in Turkey and Syria
Appeal to all Kurdistani people, supporters and humanitarian organisations to support Syrian Kurdish region.Today the Syrian people in general and Kurds in particular are going through a violent proxy war. The Syrian Kurdish region is suffering most severely due to imposed double blockade of both the brutal Assad regime and the armed opposition. People in […]
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