Capitalism Creates Poverty

I've got a confession to make - I'm an Owen Jones fan . I've read Chavs and The Establishment and I think they're both good...

One of the tricks of the neoliberal 'free market' right has been to try and convince the millions who have no stake in the system - ...

Today Greeks go to the polls to vote in one of the most important elections in the country's history. After seven years of grinding aust...

What made me want to write this post was an item I heard on the BBC Radio 4 lunchtime consumer programme You and Yours . I heard about mobil...

What do Greens know about workers and workers' rights? Aren't we just a bunch of tree-huggers and middle class do-gooders? That'...

Better late than never! -  I'm posting my video of the climate march in Manchester on 21st September, which I attended with friends fr...

It's been happening slowly but surely for quite some time but I think we have finally arrived. A combination of twenty four hour rolling...

In the final days of the Scottish referendum campaign the 'No' camp expended a fair amount of energy complaining on social media abo...

Have you noticed how politicians in the West like Barack Obama and David Cameron are always banging on about how good democracy is? There...

More and more people are wising up to the fact that privatisation of public services is a racket. You may not have read this blog before bu...

David Cameron is completely out of touch with reality - the reality of life for ordinary families in Britain. How could it be any other way?...

About 18 months ago I was listening to one of those capitalist puff piece programmes which have become so commonplace on BBC Radio 4. A pres...

Really good episode of Thinking Allowed last week. Its a great programme, consistently thought provoking and always well worth listening to...

I am old enough to remember the Soviet Union . I grew up with it and I'm glad I did. Why? because it meant that I lived in a time when t...

I'm not the only one who noticed but today marks the end of any useful life that the Labour Party had left in it. I've posted about ...