Monday, 27 February 2012

The Green Party must not repeat the mistakes of the Irish Greens

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It is clear some people in the Green Party of England and Wales haven't learned any lessons from the blunders of the Irish Green Party ....
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Wednesday, 22 February 2012

'Free market' capitalism is just a racket

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As the 'free' market fundamentalists of the neoliberal right continue their class war mission to drag us all back to nineteenth cent...
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Monday, 13 February 2012

The fevered fantasies of the 'free' market fundamentalists

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Yesterday the Greek people were betrayed by their political class , who put the bailing out of bond-holders and French and German banks abov...
Wednesday, 8 February 2012

The 'free' market right continue their attack on renewable energy

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I've posted recently about how the 'free' market right have been at the forefront of the climate change denial movement through...
Sunday, 5 February 2012

We cannot rely on the BBC to allow us to hear the truth

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Good article in the New Statesman this week about the BBC pandering to the Israeli government's illegal occupation on Palestine. The Isr...
Sunday, 29 January 2012

Banker's bonuses: why we are being screwed

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I n September 2008 after the collapse of Lehman Bros bank it became obvious to economists and senior government officials that the world fi...
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Wednesday, 25 January 2012

The most dangerous man in Britain?

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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...
Monday, 23 January 2012

The benefits cap is an attack on the victims of austerity

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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...
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Sunday, 22 January 2012

'Free' market myths no.2: low taxes are good for you

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The saying that 'only two things in life are certain, death and taxes ' has been attributed to Benjamin Franklin, and taxes are cert...
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Sunday, 15 January 2012

Forced free labour is pure Fascism

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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...

When the Scots leave the UK, we in the North should join them

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There's been an awful lot of hoo-ha about Scottish independence in the last couple of weeks. Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond's ...
Saturday, 7 January 2012

Liam Byrne's approach to 'welfare' is reactionary nonsense

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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 ...
Saturday, 31 December 2011

Kim Il-dave is Dear Thatcher's worthy successor

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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...
Wednesday, 28 December 2011

Are we conditioned to capitalism?

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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...
Sunday, 18 December 2011

David Cameron is a charlatan

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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...