Capitalism Creates Poverty

People who have followed the posts on this blog will know that I have been explaining how privatisation benefits the rich at the expense of ...

Historically socialists have followed the ' Marxist ' model. By that I mean capture the power of the state and use it to control the...

Mark Thomas has been an active campaigner against the kind of selfish 'free' market capitalism which lead to the credit crunch and t...

The Green Party's policy on pensions is great news for pensioners in the UK. See the GP news release below: Today, on National Pensions...

Being someone who has attended demonstrations and taken part in pickets I have experienced police brutality first hand. For example, during ...

The spring GP conference was held in Black pool last weekend. I went down for the Friday and Saturday sessions. It was odd being back in Bla...

On 7th March a rally was held in London to protest against the creeping adoption of sharia law in the UK. Sharia law is reactionary, regress...

I am an atheist. I always have been except when I was young enough not to know any better. It's never bothered me that other people are ...

I don't usually promote or review films or books on this blog but this is a special case. The Age of Stupid is a film where the action ...

Well, it had to happen. New Labour's mission to take us back to the nineteenth century is nearing completion with the latest welfare ref...

Have you noticed how Gordon Brown and other world leaders have been banging on recently about the dangers of protectionism ? Apparently, pro...

Bankers certainly know how to pay themselves even if they don't know how to run banks. And once again we are being told to lay off the b...

If you hadn't I wouldn't be surprised. You see our great 'free' media has pretty much ignored it completely. There was an in...

As the whole of our economic system teeters on the edge of meltdown, it's worth just taking stock of how we got here. Capitalism is an e...

I don't believe that the US is better than the UK. For a start we don't have 45 million poor people without access to healthcare. Bu...