Around the world, Occupiers sit in their small circles, exercising and evangelizing “direct democracy”, praising localism, and demanding access to power, on the stage of global finance, up where the vultures soar, the horizons of globalism have never been wider. The tentacles of the Goldman Sachs squid have never been […]
Last week David Cameron vetoed a ‘treaty within a treaty’ designed to save the Euro, and in doing so, left Britain alienated from the continent. This week we ask: did Cameron do the right thing, even if for the wrong reasons? Or is Britain now resigned to becoming a glorified […]
Tomorrow marks two months since the start of the global Occupy movement, and already a tremendous amount has been achieved. Those of us who have been part of the occupations since October the 15th weren’t even sure we would make it through the first night – and in a sense, we […]
This week we talk tax with accountant Richard Murphy from The Tax Justice Network (www.taxjustice.net) and author of the book, The Courageous State. The Occupied Times: In a nutshell, what is a tax haven? Richard Murphy: I call tax havens ‘ secrecy jurisdictions’. Secrecy jurisdictions are places that intentionally create […]
Last week, some of the most vulnerable people in Britain got up in the morning and reached for their fix of junk, as they do every day. Whilst this habit disgusts most decent minded-people, and parents rightly fear that their children could be infected, it will not go away if […]
This week we debate the Occupy movement’s use of the phrase ‘We are the 99%’. Does the statistical accuracy matter or does its powerful symbolism override this problem? FOR: Robert Phillips So where did all this come from? A New York activist coined the ‘We Are The 99%’ political slogan […]
The 30th of November is a momentous day in the history of British Industrial Relations: Never before has Britain been faced with three million workers collectively going on strike on the same day. The General Strike of 1926 involved approximately one million workers and went on for nine days. Police […]
The Occupied Times talks to star of the movie ‘COLLAPSE’, Mike Ruppert, about the economics of survival. OCCUPIED TIMES: What do the nex2 months hold? MIKE RUPPERT: 12 months? We need to focus on the next 12 weeks. That may be all the time we have to press for change before chaos […]
Mark Serwotka is General Secretary of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), the trade union for British civil servants. Occupied Times: Union membership is shrinking. What is the role of trade unions today? Mark Serwotka: While union membership overall has been falling, in some areas where we organise, despite job cuts, the percentage […]
Looking out from the Bank of Ideas across at the UBS headquarters, the covered windows reveal a fitting display of ‘blind ignorance’. The finance industry is sick, and the occupy movement is the dull ache it knows is symptomatic of a diseased core, but chooses to ignore in the hope […]