Capitalism Creates Poverty

Since New Labour abandoned being the party of social justice and social democracy its had a real difficulty distinguishing itself from the T...

Has President Obama been reading this blog? Unlikely. Has has never left a comment on any of the posts here. But if he had read it, he would...

I have been meaning to comment on the ' war on terror ' and its aftermath for a while and when I saw Gary Younge's excellent art...

I started drinking when I was fifteen, in the early 1970s. The first drink I had in a pub was half a pint of mild - a bit embarrassing - whe...

Its been an interesting few days. First there was Cameron's launch of the Tory election campaign - time for er... change apparently. As...

Does anyone remember Factor Four ? Its now a dozen years or so since this visionary book was published promising a revolution in the way we...

I've posted many times here about the 'credit crunch' crisis which has done so much damage to our economy. That crisis is still...

As UNITE said tonight the judgment to strike down the British Airways workers strike is a disgrace to democracy. According the BBC Judge L...

I caught a bit of a discussion on the Today programme on Radio 4 this morning as I was travelling to work (held up by traffic jams and road...

I travelled to the climate change demo on Saturday from Stockport with The Co-op. Good to be journeying first class on Virgin Trains to Lond...

If you read the Daily Mail you might be tempted to believe that public sector workers are the new fat cats. The Daily Mail has waged a susta...

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...