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16 May 2012
The phone-hacking scandal: profits, power and corruption
The Leveson inquiry into phone hacking has gone to the heart of Rupert Murdoch's media empire, exposing its rotten and corrupt workings. Peter Taaffe reviews Dial M for Murdoch, a book detailing the scandal and its consequences.
9 May 2012
MPs find Murdoch "not fit" to run media empire
A select committee of MPs has declared Rupert Murdoch "not fit" to run an international company after concluding that he displayed "wilful blindness" to illegal phone hacking practices across his media empire, writes Ben Norman.
2 May 2012
Leveson exposes links between Tories and Murdoch
The Ministers and the Mogul: It was a line which perhaps only the world's most powerful media magnate could have the audacity to use, writes Ben Norman.
29 February 2012
Sun launch can't hide corrupt practices
Last week News International media mogul Rupert Murdoch happily posed with a copy of the new 'squeaky clean' Sunday Sun...
8 February 2012
Review: Borgen - politics and crime in Denmark
The Killing, a Danish TV series interweaving crime drama with political drama was a great success on BBC 4, writes Derek McMillan.
11 January 2012
Reader's comment: The right wing media and Diane Abbott
Shadow health minister Diane Abbott was wrong when she said: "White people love playing divide and rule", writes Senan, Tamil Solidarity international coordinator.
11 January 2012
Feast like an MP: When was the last time you had seared breast of pigeon with aubergine purée and spiced couscous? How about risotto of pea and broad bean with Golden Cross goat's cheese? Well that's the kind of cuisine...
Cameron, the Murdoch empire and the police have been involved in a corrupt attempt to subvert the democratic rights of the British people, photo Paul Mattsson
16 November 2011
Murdochgate scandal shows need for democratic and accountable media
"You must be the first mafia boss in history who didn't know he was running a criminal enterprise", said Labour MP Tom Watson to James Murdoch, chairman of News International
5 October 2011
Book review: Jacqui Berry reviews 'Chavs - The demonization of the working class' by Owen Jones...
31 August 2011
'Murdochgate' places Cameron under spotlight
Con-Dem prime minister David Cameron was already up to his eyes in 'Murdochgate' before the latest tranche of revelations, writes Sean Figg.
28 July 2011
Media spotlight on Rajapaksa regime's mass murder in Sri Lanka
Channel 4 News has uncovered further evidence of the mass murder and brutality committed by Sri Lankan armed forces against Tamil-speaking people
Cameron - Cuts with a smile, photo Suz
20 July 2011
Murdoch sleaze spreads: The News International (NI) phone-hacking scandal goes right to the top of society - and every day the crisis gets deeper and wider. NI's billionaire owner Rupert Murdoch's bullying tactics have already exposed the rotten deals and self-serving manoeuvres of Britain's ruling class.
13 July 2011
The media 'lie factory' exposed
The book Flat Earth News, written by Nick Davies in 2008, lifted the lid on the Murdoch press two years before the News of the World phone hacking scandal. Davies has since led the Guardian investigations into the scandal. The Socialist carries an extract from a review by Peter Taaffe of Davies' book
21 June 2003
"THE CLERICAL regime is nearing its end. Vigilantes commit crimes, the leader supports them," chanted defiant student protesters at Tehran university, Iran...
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