Capitalism Creates Poverty

Post-capitalist economy? - that old chestnut, a socialist arguing for the end of capitalism? But in recent times capitalism has shown that i...

Its conference season. Its also election time in the USA. Last Wednesday there was a Presidential debate between Mitt Romney and Barack Obam...

Last week we heard that Vince Cable had decided to kowtow to his Tory masters and introduce a range of 'reforms' which are intended...

Have you been watching the Paralympics? If so you will have been impressed by the endeavour of the Paralympians in striving for medal succes...

Austerity isn't working. George Osborne's economic policy is in ruins , and he is now a lame-duck Chancellor. Last month the governm...

I was talking to a friend the other day who was telling me about someone in his family who is a businessman. "What is his business...

It's never easy to admit that you've been outsmarted, but that is what has happened to the left in the last 30 years or so. We can a...

What is the Green Party Leader for? That might seem like an odd question to ask at a time when the Party is just about to elect a new leader...

Very soon Green Party members will be receiving ballot papers for the election for Leader, Deputy Leader and GPEx posts. Understandably, mo...

There can hardly be a person in the UK who has not heard of the 'terrorist threat' or the 'war on terror' . We have become u...

Speaking about the banks last week , Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England, said that what was needed was a "change of culture...

Did you know there was a revolution going on? If you had been watching and reading the corporate media you might have got some inkling but h...

Its not that long ago that UK taxpayers bailed-out UK banks to the tune of £1.2 trillion. This, in the UK alone, is a sum which dwarfs the ...

The roller coaster ride of the world economic crisis continues. Elections in Greece and France have shifted the political ground slightly to...

There are thousands of Spanish and Greek workers fighting to defend their jobs against the dead hand of austerity which is threatening to wr...