Capitalism Creates Poverty

Would you like to see the return of British Rail and the end of rip - off rail fares? How about an end to tuition fees so that young people ...

Where to start? One place could be the excellent article by Ken Livingstone in the Guardian today. Ken summarises the failures of Thatcheri...

Once , I respected Peter Oborne. I probably shouldn't admit that but its true. I have to confess further that I even bought and read, fr...

Welcome to the new welfare state - Coalition government style. Despite the fact that we are supposed to be struggling with a massive structu...

Yesterday thousands of people in a hundred UK towns and cities came together to protest against the bedroom tax . This pernicious piece of C...

Sometime ago I posted on here about the people of the remote Lambayeque Valley in Peru who were threatened by a series of environmental cri...

Today I came across two news items which struck me as absurd. In the first David Cameron was making a speech in which he defended the gover...

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...