Capitalism Creates Poverty

Since the general election in 2010 the Coalition government ha s been waging class war against the people of the UK. In his 'emergency...

Have you been following the Eastleigh byelection ? No, neither have I. Its hard to get exited about a straight fight between the Tories and ...

Why on earth should we pay a winter fuel allowance of £250 to wealthy pensioners? At a time when we can barely afford to pay for benefits, i...

Have you noticed how conservatives, both with a big and a small ' c ', are always on about freedom and the importance of living in a...

One of the cornerstones o f 'free' mar ket capitalism is 'confidence'. 'Confidence' is of course a code word . What ...

Neoliberal Labour are at it again. This time pandering to the Coalition's class-war driven attack on the unemployed with their own vers...

We live in a 'democracy'. A flawed democracy for sure, one with an an achronistic first-past-the-post (FPTP) electoral system, and...

The batt le over fracking is the new front line in the battle against climate change and the madness of the 'free' market fundamen...

The European Union is becoming the enemy of the European people - it gives me no pleas ure to post this , but it is essential that I do so...

In my last post I blogged about how the 'free' market was working - for the banks, corporations and the capitalist media (if that se...

Unfortunately t he title of this post is not really true, the first part anyway. The 'free ' market has succeeded. It has succeded...

Competition is an essential part of  our economy. The fact that companies compete with each other to provide us with bette r goods and servi...

Let me make clear from the start that by 'tax dodgers' I mean tax avoiders and well as tax evaders . The former is not unl awful an...