Capitalism Creates Poverty

We are being told that privatisation or part privatisation of the Royal Mail will make it more efficient and provide us with a better servic...

I'm beginning to feel a bit sorry for George Monbiot. Like many of us who are aware of the dangers of climate change he is doing his bes...

I guess I'm a bit late on this one but that's because I've been busy. The government intends to impose a 50% tax rate on those ...

If you've read previous posts on this blog, you'll know that I've been blogging about how we build a socialism that will work fo...

The recent news that the Communication Workers Union members had voted for a strike a Royal Mail came as no surprise . Support for industria...

The reasons for the decline of New Labour are obvious. There is no room for two main parties of the right in British politics. The Tories ...

Tories have a deep love of poverty. Not their own of course but other peoples'. How do I know? Because their policies always make the r...

Remember when the Berlin wall came down? It was the end of communist repression in eastern Europe and the subject of much rejoicing. I was a...

We know that if the Tories get into power there will be swinging cuts in public services. The Taxpayers Alliance, a bunch of Tories who clai...

There's been a lot of controversy about Josef Stalin recently. In Eastern Europe, as they commemorate the beginning of the Second World...

Well, at last a regulator has had the guts to say we should rein in 'free' market financial capitalism. Not only that but he said t...

Is America still a superpower? In military terms it still is but can the USA continue to be a dominant force politically and economically? M...

The 'free' market is getting freer. With de-regulation for businesses still going full steam ahead the freedoms of citizens are narr...

In the past 40 years or so productive capitalism has been overtaken by financial capitalism. By productive capitalism I mean the 'real e...

Some people can't tell left from right. This can be a real danger when driving. I wonder if James Purnell drives a lot, if so he should ...