the communist manifesto changed the world as we know it so marx's name an image has appeared all over the place from a major street here in the german capital for these t. shirts you can even save your capitalist penny inside the heads of one of communisms founding think is marx has also appeared in more than his fair share of t.v. shows and advertisements as well. oh here comes the mad sweetie and dad. maher's show mr khan list.

the ideas put forward by moxie here alongside frederick angles haven't been consigned to the nineteenth hole for that matter the twentieth centuries a recent poll of people from twenty eight different nations showed that hard for them said to get a better society we should follow socialist ideals however it is worth noting that in the same poll around the same number said that political system is based on the writings of these two were far more likely to be oppressive i asked the people of what they thought those mosques have a place in today's society and politics so when it comes to politics like maybe you use it to get votes but it's now very early like that ideology and it has never been practiced so it doesn't exist and. not only like about. economic

inequalities but also other types of inequalities that could be used like they could use marxist theory to be examined more in today's culture capitalism. seals labor from people or from the workers and. from from our point of view. it's still important that my idea is a good important but it's not a utopia in reality things in that differently at marx's funeral in london in one thousand eight hundred three angles said his friend the greatest living thinker has ceased to think well that may well have been but two hundred years after his birth the ideas put forward by marx continue to inspire others to think peter all of us. we have from philosopher and cultural critic about how his works are understood in the modern world these days. all heroes but here also this fame

if very ambiguous. you've become a cult figure which means people don't really start the you don't really review and so on and so on marx to present him as an ideal not only doesn't take mark seriously but also avoids confronting what is problematic in marx his description of the movement of global coverage of the polarity growing between the poor and the rich and so on and so on it's very actuality but the context is though tele different he was as if you are right in the wrong way marx obviously didn't care as well elaborated theory of state power he thought state is such a fact just a secondary superstructure thinks really happened in economy already in the soviet union it was proven that things don't work like this state plays

a much stronger role so the first task today. to be a critical marxist is to focus on problems which are neglected by marx like the role of state power in economy itself so come on a lot more things to play with this is weekend and the chilling to out international stories ahead of me kevin owen activists in scotland are calling for a second referendum on independence we'll talk about that a more brain. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest on the world of politics or business and show business i'll see you then. the global economy is so tightly wound that these sanctions don't work but that is because the supply chains are completely overlapping and the what is sanctioned in

one country drives economic problems on another country that you're not trying to say suffer get sanctions or spell longer workable that the global economy has to come to integrate too fragile it's too. interdependent. putting lives by two things by his emotion and he is. in the long term he plays a very long game he says so to speak of long distance runner in politics and that's the way they underestimated. the rise in paris earlier on the all spring rallies in russia this weekend to opposition activists have been protesting ahead of lima putin's presidential inauguration monday heeding the calls for the country's leading opposition figure

election of only who was demonstrating under the slogan putin is not tsar to us live only him self is arrested in moscow earlier along with nearly three hundred others for breaking protest laws he goes down off reports. some fifteen hundred people have gathered in central arm or school most of them are supporters of alexina valley a prominent opposition figure in russia now at the beginning of the protests we do know that there have been some scuffles between the supporters and the opponents over like seen a volley but so far largely this event has been peaceful now right now the police are trying to clear out the city center they are kind of breaking up the crowd into smaller chunks of people and trying to disperse them one of the reasons the reason as to why they're doing this is this location for the protest. has not been approved by the most school authorities. system himself but his supporters should gather here on post discuss where while and stick was offered

a different location on saturday ave now it's just a few. thousand metres a few kilometers away from here it is also said in central most boys story districts somewhat of a traditional what has become a traditional sport for opposition rallies in moscow one of those actually took place there literally a few days ago organized by different people and it was in support of the internet freedom in russia in the wake of the russian government banning a very popular a messaging service messenger telegram here it's one of only himself did not shy away from appearing at that small rally which did raise some questions as to why he chose time i know what rituals to denounce that locations are about avenues for his rally and so no problem appearing there at the do at the rally we're going to use by different people also this has been this the protests have not been contained to just more school it has been

a russia wide thing some two thousand people we know have been protesting in st petersburg and in other russian cities as well we have reports of arrests in some of those cities too mostly in the cities where locations like here in moscow. approved by the authorities as well and most all we saw some people being detained by the police to mostly those who are trying to block the streets. schools leo state of illinois may soon have to change the curriculum to teach more about the contributions made by the l.g.b. take even a tease to american history the work of l.g.b. t. figures we give more focus on to the plan in subjects ranging from science to sport california's already made up move last year now this pillar of noise still has to be given the go ahead by the states house of representatives but it's already got a lot of people talking on both sides. it will promote acceptance and a more accurate portrayal of history. it is in direct contradiction to the clear

christian beliefs of many in illinois to discuss it further we've heard of media commentators lowden and human rights activists put it to actual to offer their views it's very important people understand the contribution that gay people have made i think it's about informing straight kids so they understand l g b t issues they their prejudice is broken down if a history book or any book whatever write about me personally i wouldn't want them to lead with my religious background my ethnicity and certainly not my sexual orientation fantastic extraordinary people from tchaikovsky to richard the lionhearted their gayness or their bisexuality is not the major factor but it's just about acknowledging that l.g. beauty people have existed throughout history and have made a very important contribution to the sciences the arts sport and culture well i think in an effort perhaps to be inclusive we've made a mistake and

a miss estimation if you will and what's happened is that a lot of groups have been taken advantage of by politicians who are willing to prey on people based on those identities i think that you know identity politics has been a response to exclusion because of decades of exclusion and marginalization some communities of how to organize it hasn't worked and what it's done instead is it's divided us up into little groups that then can be taken advantage of by politicians gene is right we don't want to be typecast about the fact that we're jewish or gay or black those are just one aspect of who we are. thousands people out of the streets of glasgow saturday demanding a second referendum on scottish independence from the u.k. .

turner there are some of the estimates saying maybe double what they expected up to eight hundred thousand not confirm the march was led by a movement called under one banner which held a similar event last year. if eighty thousand were confirmed last twice the number that you've been eyes were expecting in september twenty fourth team scotland voted to remain in the united kingdom with the best together campaign lead by fifty five percent to forty five over saying that the situation has changed since brics it referendum and a second vote should be held. this isn't true story for the week where in the close or adopting the traditions of another culture is now often seen more as offensive than flattering it seems especially if reactions of social media have been anything to go by one recent cultural appropriation backlash targeted a teenager who posted a photo of herself in

a chinese dress and artie's online series in case you missed it got to grips with walt's going down yet. oh you are. a young girl just enjoying high school prom no thank case you missed this picture is the moment that civilization went just too far. cultural appropriation or appreciating stuff from other cultures may seem like a completely made up full bloom the kind of thing it's not worth. but only really going to believe that innocent young the traditional chinese dress just so she could look nice when i'm grey guy on twitter who had never met me and probably shouldn't be looking at strangers social media feeds her for us when he said my culture is no no goddamn problem for us but mr angry is

a chinese american named jeremy lamb who one would expect would know a thing or two about mixing culture is if we don't all pretend to be outraged right now where we're like as he is of this world stop we will start to eat chinese food as if it a new thing when they start using goods made in china in everyday life china's culture is not your god damn i think one of our indian children a attitude from the simpsons he's going under the radar for thirty years but is now finally being criticised by one guy who can't just take someone from another culture and affectionately turn them into a much loved blondes of the most successful show of all gone i'm groundskeeper willie scotland how are they getting away with that so how do we stop this before we end up in the nightmare scenario where different cultures learn about appreciate and accept one another start with you or half say no to inappropriate appropriated

styles cut it all off shore boldness risk but honest but what are they going to do speak your grandma speaks snoop dogg's grandma front you dress. it's just not worth the risk yeah you gotta stop it if you know india and you stole it i'm gonna have democracy and elections and stuff like that tough the greeks want it back tracking a computer that's rushed back off calm right really there's only one option that will make us happy segregate coaches and build walls and stop sharing ideas or just drink a cappuccino in a camaro and see if that can take it. to a great show from polly first what did you up to tell us more of it very regular every week online out amongst all of the stories to don't have time to show you here talking of which we're out of time for now but stay up there this is kevin anymore thanks for watching us international with the team owes appreciate it more

for me in thirty five minutes time we go to great programs here lined up after this break in part of the world. seemed wrong. why don't we all just don't call. me. yet to see how this thing comes out. and it gets me equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. in the heart of the swiss alps this is a place probably more secretive than the pentagon more mysterious than the cia and better guarded than for knox swiss customs are here permanently and all the site is

controlled by them and they impose the opening times where. it is from is all plus the procedures in place of the strictest in all europe masterpieces by artists like pecan so and modigliani are camped boards and sold inside this warehouse that's where the report comes in it covers a deals which are naturally discreet commercially discreet felt but also discreet because they concern fraud. some of those paintings are linked to dark secrets nobody knows how many of these secrets are camped inside the geneva freeport system you'll never obtain an inventory of all the works in the freeport who knows how many there are three hundred three thousand three hundred thousand is it a matter of confidentiality only is it the world's black box of the art business. for a world cup twenty eight team coverage we've signed one of the greatest goalkeepers of alternative but there was one more question and by the way it's going to be our

coach. guys i know you are nervous he's a huge star among us and the huge amount of pressure you have to the center of the problem here with you and all the great british you are the rock at the back nobody gets past you we need you to get the ball going let's go. alone. and i'm really happy to join for the two thousand and three in the world cup in russia meet the special one i was also appreciate me to just say to redo the aussie team's latest edition to make up a bigger. look. ok

she didn't know it is a may day today. protests in france have turned fine and false information to use tear gas and water cannons and arrested more than two hundred testers. corruption this seemingly they see nothing to make the troops the bullets made a protest in support of workers' rights turned violent in cities around the world. i live on hearing. as the tear gas settles and rain washes blood from the streets of europe after this week's global mayday uprising i'm afshin rattansi and this is going underground special with me for the whole program is that journalist and film. john pilger john let's start because you're straight to austerity before we go to foreign policy even in australia i know another first

world country the levels will stare as he beamed to the moon since the twenty eight crash a stir tea is applied globally so the same policy is of extreme tax codes the trump was opposed to go in the united states that we've we've had in this country for for a very long time it's called neo liberalism they applaud so you have or this called an underclass people working for. temporary visas for low wages this is become the pattern in all rich countries it's the kind of. darwinian economics that those who two thirds of society those who've who've got it through really will those in the middle who aspire to do well are usually in debt and those in the bottom up discard it and yet of course while

as you say these two thirds have been suffering since twenty eight or even before then there is money for wars what was your reaction when you first heard of the anglo american french missile attacks on syria it's built on a series of i would call them lies fabrications. the calculus attack on duma tourism a clearly said this is why britain has to go in and fight and think that it makes the regime they says is to be believed frankly and she's yet to convince us that she has a right to be believed because. almost everything to do with foreign policy has shown to in the end if you take the the the souls pre attack that is on rabelais so far east for example the o.p.c. w. report on this which was not reported include in the bar

a tree report from its major of a power tree in switzerland which said. this this was no no of agent this wasn't no for sure it was something entirely different showing about the wheelchair attack i told her you will sure side it is sold protect but they are connected because it leads then we leads then to the attack on syria. the there is overall a campaign against russia this is a very long campaign it's been going on since the russian revolution but it's intensified in terms of its propaganda and the way i'd never known i've never known journalism to be so distorted in order to sort of this propaganda be the attack on on on dubai was based on when i quoted the law i when you look at the available evidence the real evidence the evidence

that barely sees the light of day. then there's no justification for it whatsoever. there's no real evidence of a chemical attack so what we're seeing is is the most intense. campaign of propaganda at least since the iraq the build up to the iraq war in two thousand and three which comes from a great tradition that comes from nine hundred forty five the cover story for dropping two atomic bombs later discredited right through to the beginning of the vietnam war the gulf of tonkin so we had years of misery and devastation in vietnam built on a lie when the be going to understand this when we're going to send understand

there's no sturrock zero patton and we see that played out now almost through the propaganda that's presented as news i think will get you that many mainstream media journalists have short term memories perhaps but they are handed as they have always been handed press releases from government they routinely say russia has obviously invaded an area of europe and now they are being told we have proof that they have launched a chemical attack on english soil the first time since world war two and and the journalists say all governments cannot possibly be lying about such a serious event i've been a journalist for a long time i've covered many wars i've covered the first cold war i've covered it from the soviet union i've covered it from the united states i've worked all over the world i'm a reporter. i would say there is

a pseudo journalism now the kind of journalism you describe i wouldn't describe as journalism to simply write down and swallow what governments tell you is the very end to thesaurus of what real journalism is fortunately we still have it in the great on really exceptional is the mavericks like robert fisk whose single report from duma showed almost without doubt the whole hickman's so false he interviewed a doctor who'd worked at this particular facility there was no evidence the doctor made a mockery of macros and maize and clay and. we have seymour hersh now who can't pump be published in his own country has to be published in germany probably the greatest investigative reporter in the world hersh last year may

his own reporting his own investigation made mockery of these so-called. chemical attacks. i've never known the time when so cold as you describe it mainstream surely. a satirical. mainstream journalism has been so integrated into a propaganda. and that that propaganda campaign at the moment pointed right against russia suggests to me that it's the beginning of a kind of not the macho on russia. that the surrounding of russia with bases with american bases with nato missiles the provocations day off today. suggests this in syria where basically the russians and the syria some sixty want

the the the rebels. most of whom hobbist an extreme islamicist supported by the united states supported by britain are still present to as a credible opposition within syria but the whole point of all this is to take syria from the russians since the nine hundred fifty s. if you read the documents you go back and read the declassified m i six dispatches from syria they've been trying to do those things the nineteen fifties syria hasn't been controlled in the same way that iran hasn't been controlled this is i hope this is not the last stage i don't think it is because in syria it appears there's a major defeat and what way is seeing is

a reaction to that but of course you mentioned some world renowned journalists have you been surprised about how they have been taken as apologists for putin and fascinated by presenting the opposite there it is oh of course not. a big cold everything throughout my career that's a badge of honor. you're a good reporter only if at some point. authority established forces about who. about whose nefarious activities and invasions you're writing label you a dupe used to be a favor or an apologist robert fisk knows this very well that's happened with every great story he's reported i say great story because he's reporting this pain of the highest order. since i've known him as would seem all have as with

with people like gareth porter great investigative reporter who you'll never see he's an american you'll never see it is so cold maiden's for you newspaper writes all of it but read his material about iran it's based on fact you mention iran how serious is this narrative not going to twist away but maybe while still remaining on syria but going to focus on some kind of imminent war on iran especially as we know john bolton is no national security advisor go chill go is it on the whole ball and this this and mike pompei of who's this secretary of state. it's hard to know who amongst them is the most extreme. but iran has been a major target much more so than syria much more so than iraq because

iran was one of the pillows of western power american power in the middle east and when most a deck the democratically elected leader of iran was overthrown in in the nineteen fifties by britain and the united states and the shah was in a store that was when the pillar was reinforced but the pillar collapsed in one nine hundred seventy nine with the revolution in iran and that has never been forgiven getting a rom the major ambition of the above and that's why we're coming into a very dangerous period when trump mosse ratify the agreement the a bomb outside and. with iran along with. the e.u. under which iran committed to its self as it frankly always had committed

itself to a peaceful nuclear program in return sanctions were dropped and so on we have dangers you know the dangers that are presented to us this is so unnecessary why why are we why we threatening countries like iran which hasn't invaded anyone for about four hundred years the don't threaten us why is not for innocent like israel allowed to have its impunity. why do we why do we believe these why do as you describe why do we journalists write down what governments tell us why don't they question them don't they it's just a few years ago that that exactly.