Capitalism Creates Poverty

As if the threat of the coronavirus wasn't enough to cause you some anxiety - perhaps unless you are young and healthy - the manifest fa...

I've never written an obituary before. I'm not sure that I know how to. But what I do know is that I was gutted to hear that David G...

Covid-19 isn't going away anytime soon. It may be around for many years. There may never be a vaccine. We, and particularly older and ...

We live in a consumer-capitalist society. Consumption drives our economy. That is why the Tory government is so anxious to return to 'n...

I'm reading The Divide by Jason Hickel which is an excellent discourse on how poverty has been deliberately created and maintained acr...

Incredible scenes in Bristol yesterday as hundreds of people gathered in Bristol to pull down the statue of slave trader Edward Colston an...

A video is doing the rounds on social media of George Floyd who was accused of passing a counterfeit bill and was arrested by four police ...

The coronavirus crisis grinds on and will continue for many months yet. Today the official figures are 32,000 coronavirus deaths - the high...

Its time we began to think about what kind of economy we’re going to have after the coronavirus. What we can’t do is allow the Tory govern...

Antonio Gramsci was a member of the Italian parliament and General Secretary of the Italian Communist Party. He was imprisoned by the Ita...

So here we are. The Coronavirus pandemic rumbles on and we haven't reached the peak yet. Our incompetent and malevolent government stil...

This is one of the most difficult posts I’ve ever written. I have a vested interest in survival. Because of my age and underlying medical co...

Anyone who has read my posts on this blog will know there is a common theme and that is economic democracy, which means businesses being own...

Friday the 13th was a very dark day indeed. Not just because of the size and scale of Labour's defeat in the election but because of wha...

I'm sixty-two years old so I've been around a bit. I grew up in the swinging 60s and lived through the industrial strife of the 1970...