Tuesday, 18 June 2013

The strange slow death of the Labour Party

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Do all political parties have a lifespan? I think so. Its hard to imagine the Tory Party coming to an end, because it represents the intere...
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Monday, 27 May 2013

The global kleptocracy: 'free trade' and corporate economic imperialism

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Whilst arguments rage in the UK about the aftermath of the horrific and senseless murder of a soldier in Woolwich, around the world corporat...
Friday, 24 May 2013

What is work and what is it really for?

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What is work, what is it for, and what is it going to look like in the future? Do we need to work and how much work should we do? T...
Thursday, 16 May 2013

If you get a Labour government in 2015 you will probably be sorely disappointed

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Remember Neoliberal Labour? The bad old New Labour of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown? Well, if you are planning to vote Labour in 2015, and you...
Saturday, 11 May 2013

"Democracy itself is at stake"

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A while ago I wrote a post about the UK's sham democracy . My argument was that our democratic system is there to make us believe we can...
Sunday, 21 April 2013

Real change is possible if you vote for the Green Party, and now is the time to start

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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 ...
Thursday, 11 April 2013

Thatcher is dead: now we must bury Thatcherism!

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Where to start? One place could be the excellent article by Ken Livingstone in the Guardian today. Ken summarises the failures of Thatcheri...
Thursday, 4 April 2013

Peter Oborne lives in Tory la la land

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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...
Wednesday, 27 March 2013

Welfare? That is only for corporations and the rich

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Welcome to the new welfare state - Coalition government style. Despite the fact that we are supposed to be struggling with a massive structu...
Sunday, 17 March 2013

Stop this war on the poor - fight back against the bedroom tax!

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Yesterday thousands of people in a hundred UK towns and cities came together to protest against the bedroom tax . This pernicious piece of C...
Wednesday, 13 March 2013

Why we must all bow down to "The Market"

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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...
Thursday, 7 March 2013

There is a real alternative plan for the economy and RBS

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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...
Wednesday, 27 February 2013

Are there Green red lines? - You bet, its time to fight the bedroom tax!

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Since the general election in 2010 the Coalition government ha s been waging class war against the people of the UK. In his 'emergency...
Sunday, 17 February 2013

The good news is that the Tories are making themselves unelectable

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Have you been following the Eastleigh byelection ? No, neither have I. Its hard to get exited about a straight fight between the Tories and ...
Saturday, 9 February 2013

Bevan was right - it is essential we maintain universal benefits

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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...