Barack Obama: opportunities and obstacles
It’s the end of an error and beginning of a new era, but as he takes office, Barack Obama will have to be bold to deal with the enormous challenges he faces: an imploding economy, poverty, inequality, healthcare meltdown, two wars and much more. So what does he have to offer? Bill Fletcher Jr offers [...]
Bill Fletcher Jr offers a legislative agenda for his first 100 days
What Obama means to the world
People's obsession with Barack Obama says more about them than him, says Gary Younge
After the meltdown
William Greider, Frances Fox Piven, Doug Henwood, Arun Gupta and Naomi Klein discuss the financial crisis facing Obama - and what should be done
PLUS A patriot for Aretha
Steve Platt gets in touch with his inner Aretha
Change we can believe in?
Red Pepper's Obama blog looks at what his presidency means for the global left
An open letter to President Barack Obama from Peter Tatchell
Julie Burchill misoverestimates Bush
Ben Trott responds to Julie Buchill's 'thoroughly absurd' article in The Sun
The Economist on Obama and the question of betrayal
The Lexington column in this week's Economist focusses on Obama's betrayal of the left - either real or perceived, writes Ben Trott
\'It seems like Obama is saying: I will only be as good a president as the people who will organize to move me\'
Dont Rhine, from the sound art collective Ultra Red, on the inauguration
\'The audacity of dope\'
There's been some fairly unusual attempts to cash in on Obama's current popularity, says Ben Trott
A different way of doing things Robin Murray explores the potential of co-ops to form the basis of an alternative economy
A bank worth backing Christopher Hird looks at how the Co-op Bank has fared in the financial crisis
One Million Climate Jobs: An interview with John Stewart Tom Robinson talks to the Chair of the Campaign Against Climate Change on how the creation of one million climate jobs could help save the economy and the environment
Co-operatise the state? Can the co-op movement be one source of alternatives to marketisation? Hilary Wainwright explores
It’s all at the co-op Jim Keogan reports on how co-ops are combining economic resilience with egalitarianism
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