November 2006 Archive 

Exit strategies Death can become you. Fiona Osler investigates the green and non-religious alternatives for seeing off this mortal coil

The £4 billion rip-off It’s like putting Enron in charge of the power grid. That’s how US businessman Phil Zweig describes the privatisation of NHS procurement.

The end of the internet? The way the internet works at the moment, you can access a blog by an anti-war teenager from Utah on an equal footing with the website of the US defence department. But all that could change if some of the big internet service providers get their way. Leigh Phillips warns of the threat to the internet as we know it

Classy class warrior

Dear Auntie

I’ve dedicated my last 15 years to ‘the movement’, even hitching to Genoa for the 2001 G8 protests and biking to Stirling for last year’s counter-summit. But I share this passion for activism with a love of fine living.

I wouldn’t be seen dead without my Gucci sunglasses, my most treasured possession is my Aga stove, and I even rounded off the Genoa trip with a spot of wine tasting in Tuscany. Can I continue to be classy without being a class traitor?

Nukes for all Is the world on the brink of a new nuclear arms race, with North Korea’s atomic bomb test marking the end of non-proliferation? John Gittings reports

Britain’s global power empire What is the British government doing promoting electricity privatisation in the developing world? John Hilary reports on the government-owned multinational power company Globeleq

Beyond the public sector

Support for the ‘third sector’ of social enterprises, charities and the like has never been stronger.

Martin McIvor considers how to prevent it turning into backdoor privatisation

Frank, as in honest

The leaking of a secret speech by the Hungarian prime minister, Ferenc Gyurcsany, has led to mass protests and political crisis in Budapest. In the speech, Gyurcsany said that his party had lied to the electorate to win the April election.

Laszlo Bihari reports on the political fallout from the truth about Hungary’s honest liar

Veiled threats

Multiculturalism has been getting the blame for the alleged lack of integration of minority groups into British society. It isn’t beyond criticism, but neither is it the main cause of social division.

That’s down to racism and economic inequality, writes Mike Marqusee

Kyoto: a false consensus? At the UN climate talks in Nairobi, Kenya, from 6-17 November 2006, many participants are likely to concentrate on defending and extending the Kyoto Protocol against the Bush administration’s opposition. However, a new book critiques the embattled Kyoto agreement and other carbon trading schemes from a different social justice.

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