The Solution Is Social Housing

Ryan Cooper, Peter Gowan Jacobin
How can we solve the housing crisis? Simple: have the government build more housing.

Bringing Back The Lucas Plan

Felix Holtwell Notes from Below
“We got to do something now, the company are not going to do anything and we got to protect ourselves”, proclaimed a shop steward at Lucas Aerospace when filmed by a 1978 documentary by the Open University.

As Old Wars Still Rage Pentagon Plans New “Long War” with China and Russia

Michael Klare TomDispatch
U.S. tanks in Bulgaria
It looks as if a 21st century version of the Cold War (with dangerous new twists) has begun and hardly anyone has noticed. Even while the disastrous U.S. wars against terror still rage, the Pentagon has committed itself and the nation to a new three-front “long war” against China and Russia.