Capitalism Creates Poverty

On Saturday October 30th, people took part in peaceful protests against Vodafone all across the UK. During the protests many Vodafone stores...

I guess some people will quibble about me using the word 'empire' to describe the USA. I have no problem with it. The Americans have...

In previous posts I have talked about how neo-liberal 'free' market capitalism is a project which aims to take us back to the 19th C...

£18 billion cuts in welfare, so far, from the ConDem government. Just contrast that with a £2.5 billion tax on the banks and £7 billion bon...

Have you ever come across ' The Shock Doctrine ' by Naomi Klein? Naomi Klein is an author and left-wing activist who first came to p...

I've posted before about how neoliberalism - free market economics - is damaging the US economy in this pos t, but what I saw on Newsnig...

I guess most people have heard about ethnic cleansing . This is the process by which people of another race or nationality have been forced ...

Where to start? When did left politics really start? For me it was the 17th Century during the English Revolution - better known as the Engl...

If you've been reading my posts about how the bank bailouts and the subsequent debt crisis really means that the rich are screwing the r...

S o you think you live in a democracy? Well, you are right, you do. But it's not quite the democracy you probably think. I just pulled t...

Congratulations to Ed Milliband on winning the Labour Party leadership. As a Green Party member it doesn't really matter to me who is l...

Its been an interesting day with Vince Cable launching an attack on capitalism at the LibDem conference. According to Vince, who's speec...

Once again, with the visit of the Pope to the UK, secularism is under attack from religionists. The Pope 'warned' about 'aggress...

Tony Blair is one of those people (men usually) who seem to have an obsession with certain male appendages. Tony admires people with balls...

We live in a world of inequality, yet we rarely question where this inequality comes from. By inequality, I mean inequality in power and wea...