Capitalism Creates Poverty

Good to hear that Len McCluskey, the new leader of Unite, has called today for trade unionists to oppose the cuts and work with all the oth...

How long have we had capitalism? In its modern form, in the UK, less than 200 years. According to Karl Polanyi , capitalism started in Brita...

I thought I'd post this as a reflection on what happened the last time we had a Tory government determined to attack working people: ...

On Thursday 9th December the ConDem government managed to pass legislation increasing tuition fees to up to £9,000 per year in the face of s...

On the 27 November CoR held its inaugural conference in London. I travelled down by train from Cheshire and was joined by 1200 others in t...

So the saying, which originated in the Bible, goes. In our response to the economic crisis here in the UK we are being shown the way by the ...

As we witness the humiliation if the Irish people who are being bullied into accepting the rule of the IMF to bail out "their" re...

..... people are radicalised and come together to resist the ruling capitalist elite. There has been a lot of controversy in the past few ...

The Irish people find themselves in a similar situation to the Icelanders. As an island state with a small population, Ireland was feted for...

On Wednesday 52,000 students marched through London. The demonstration was peaceful and good natured. It is good to see that a new generatio...

The UK has a housing benefit bill of £21 billion. This is a huge sum. But how did it come about? The seeds were sown in 1979 when the incomi...

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...