JK Alternative Viewpoint

An oil painting believed to be of author Emily Bronte which will be the latest item relating to one of the literary sisters to go under the hammer at J.P.Humbert Auctioneers.  Photo: PA Portrait believed to be of author Emily Bronte will be auctioned. A hitherto unknown portrait believed to be of author Emily Bronte [...]

Piracy is typically portrayed as the vice of only those who wish to steal media for the sake of self-indulgent entertainment. But ‘file sharing’ is also, for some, the only means of gaining access to educational material or information censored by oppressive governments, let alone revolutionary inspiration “Here is just one example of the total [...]

A flotilla of Iranian warships crossed the Suez Canal and docked at the Syrian port of Tartus on Saturday. Iran’s Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi said the mission displays Iran’s “might” despite 30 years of relentless sanctions. The flotilla comprised the 18th Fleet of the Iranian navy. The warships would hold exercises and will “train Syrian [...]

The revolutions in Egypt and Syria were shaped in part by Nasser-era policies and institutions [GALLO/GETTY]   Cairo, Egypt – Today marks the 54th anniversary of the foundation of the United Arab Republic (UAR), a unity between Egypt and Syria that was the height of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser’s power and the pinnacle of [...]

“Lucian had a particular way of looking at you. Not so much screwing up his eyes, but focusing them on you in a fixed way, as though he was trying to take in everything about you,” says Carola Zentner, writer, journalist and cousin to Lucian Freud. “But all the Freud boys did that: Clement, the [...]

Mardi Gras 2012 falls this Tuesday, 19th February. In this Sunday Comic our author traces the origins and culture of the Mardi Gras Indians at the heart of the New Orleans carnival No city in America has been affected by its relationship with Native Americans in the manner encountered in New Orleans.  While John Wayne [...]

Only about a third of Libyans say they want a democracy in five years’ time, according to a survey [EPA]   Oxford, United Kingdom – A survey has revealed that the people of Libya may not be keen on democracy after all. The “Arab Spring” has been celebrated in the Western world as a struggle [...]

  Daniel Bensaïd, Alda Sousa, Alan Thornett and others, New Parties of the Left: Experiences from Europe (Resistance books 2011), 196 The last decades’ resurgence of the radical left has been cut short in recent years. Tom Whittaker assesses a collection of articles discussing the experiences of a range of parties across Europe. Daniel Bensaïd, [...]

Ever since the national liberation movement in Balochistan abandoned socialism from its programme, it became an easy prey for the imperialist vultures. They can now play with the sentiments of national exploitation and oppression of the people only to utilise them for their own imperialist designs Genuine issues and real problems in society are so [...]

Time to move beyond neoliberalism and its convenient amnesia. Economic policy should be practiced as a public art, not an elite science. This is the second piece in OurKingdom’s “Uneconomics” series [8] Last week I sat next to a tutor in Political Geography at dinner at an Oxford college. He told me that when his [...]