September 2005 Archive 

Three poems on peace and war By Adrian Mitchell, September 2005

Notes from inside New Orleans Friday 2 September 2005. I just left New Orleans a couple hours ago. I travelled from the apartment I was staying in by boat to a helicopter to a refugee camp. If anyone wants to examine the attitude of federal and state officials towards the victims of hurricane Katrina, I advise you to visit one of the refugee camps.

(Micro)power for the people It’s been described as the environmental equivalent of "the leap from the steam engine to the diesel locomotive". Melanie Jarman considers whether a shift to micropower generation is the solution to climate change

Who really bombed Paris? The French response to ‘Islamic terrorism’ after the 1995 Paris metro bombing is often held up as a model. But there is strong evidence that the attacks were part of the Algerian government’s ‘dirty war’ on its opponents.

The remaking of the left More than a decade after the fall of the Berlin wall, communist successor parties are winning support as they struggle to reinvent themselves

Living together: an interview with Tariq Ramadan Tariq Ramadan is one Europe’s leading progressive Muslim scholars. He talked to Oscar Reyes about integration, multiculturalism and the role of the global justice movement after the London bombings.

Attacking the outside agitators Throughout the 1960s, volunteers who joined the struggle for African-American civil rights in the US southland were denounced as ‘outside agitators.’ The white establishment accused them of stirring up the local blacks, who of course would otherwise have remained content with their lot.

The roots of terror Some form of terror lies at the origin of most political states, writes Terry Eagleton, but this fact is cast into the political unconscious. Only by confronting it, rather than repressing it, can we hope to get beyond it