Capitalism Creates Poverty

I n September 2008 after the collapse of Lehman Bros bank it became obvious to economists and senior government officials that the world fi...

Who could this man be? David Cameron? Bob Crow? No. For me, Cameron is certainly number two but the most dangerous man in Britain is a man w...

You have to hand it to the political right. They are the real masters of the politics of divide and rule . Recently they have been busy div...

The saying that 'only two things in life are certain, death and taxes ' has been attributed to Benjamin Franklin, and taxes are cert...

What do you call it when someone forces you to work for nothing, and who really benefits? Most people would call it slave labour, and rightl...

There's been an awful lot of hoo-ha about Scottish independence in the last couple of weeks. Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond's ...

Let me start by telling you a story - once upon a time there was a party in the UK called The Labour Party. It arose from the trade unions ...

At New Year it is the time to reflect on the successes of the People's Free Market of the United Kingdom (PFMUK) and to celebrate the ac...

On the day of the funeral of the 'Dear Leader' of North Korea, Kim Jong-il , I've been musing about how it is that there has be...

I was intending to do a post about the climate conference in Durban but I have been sidetracked by the phenomenon which is David Cameron. He...

Why would a left-wing blogger and a ecosocialist make such a statement? Socialists aren't really supposed to deal in such terminology. W...

Capitalism has brought about a double crunch; a crunch which is both environmental and economic. The cause is capitalism's drive for end...

On 30 November 2011 twenty nine public sector unions took joint strike action over savage cuts to their pensions. Over 2 million workers we...

This is the first in a series of posts which aim to explode the common myths of neoliberal 'free' market propaganda. Something you c...

It was bound to happen here, as it did in Wisconsin and other American states. First the capitalist class, or 1% if you prefer,  creates a c...