The increasing frenzy around the 2012 Olympics masks a hidden bailout and a dubious social legacy, says Anna Minton. Landmark events always reflect the social and economic realities of the time which in this case is the tax-payer funded bailout of an economic model in crisis. In 2008, as the […]

This month saw the launch of Move Your Money UK, a national grassroots campaign to spread the message that we, as individuals, can help to build a better banking system through our buying power. The campaign follows a highly successful movement in the US which has led to over 10 […]

I’ve got a proposal to end the chronic culture of short-termism that we have in our politics, our electoral cycles, our business and economics.  Because when one is trying to think on a timescale of hundreds of years or thousands of years or hundreds of thousands of years – which […]

In the wake of the brutal austerity package – cutting 3.3 billion euros of wages, pensions and benefits – which has just been passed by the Greek parliament, Professor Yanis Varoufakis, Professor of economic theory at the University of Athens, gives the OT his unique insights into the dark days […]

Occupy London expresses its support for the massive and growing numbers of homeless people in London and in Britain as a whole. Having a home is a fundamental human need and right. Only with adequate housing can people successfully contribute to their community in a meaningful way. Many homeless people […]

There’s great alarm over the fate of Syria’s Revolution as the stalemate in the country leaves it subject to external forces capable of dislodging its beleaguered combatants. For the regime, it can rely on its Russian and Iranian benefactors to provide diplomatic, financial and military aid. For the opposition weathering military sieges in Homs, Hama, […]

The official story of homelessness is one of rising numbers. We are seeing increased applications to local authorities and rising numbers of rough sleepers. But like every story worth hearing there’s more than one side to the story of homelessness. On the one hand we have the official numbers – […]

With each day now taking us further towards Spring and the warmth of the year ahead, the plans and blueprints drawn up in wintry months by Occupy London’s working groups are thawing to fruition. Multiplying. Gaining traction. Beneath the bells of St. Pauls and through the wires of e-mail groups […]

With Occupy camps around the world threatened by eviction, it is easy to pack up and go home. But many of the issues that drove dissenters into the streets of Athens, Madrid, New York or London remain unsolved.  ECONOMIC CHANGE While Occupy has helped to put the issue of inequality […]

The occupations were brilliant.  They created facts on the ground—many grounds.  They pumped oxygen into the global atmosphere.  They are, or were, not only symbols of a need (community, shelter, expression) but public spaces for contact, information, and conversation, as well as attractors of the curious.  At their best, they […]