Capitalism Creates Poverty

Welcome to the climate con which is CoP26 in Glasgow. Here, governments, NGOs, and corporates are supposed to be working together to limit g...

Much has been said and written about the disastrous failure of the Tory government's Test & Trace system. It's not just the fact...

Last year, before Covid struck, Australia was blitzed by  devastating bushfires . Over 30 people died, many had to be evacuated from beaches...

Yesterday Boris Johnson announced that from the 19th July the government was ending most covid restrictions. The key points are that the we...

Do you think of Canada as being a hot country? I never have, but as I type this some Canadians are experiencing record-breaking temperatures...

After eleven days of horror and death, a 'ceasefire' has been declared in Israel. Of course, a ceasefire suggests that there are two...

On Friday 9th March Prince Phillip died. He was ninety-nine years old. I wanted to write a brief post about his death and the reaction to it...

I'm posting this late, after the events, but I wanted to reflect on what happened in a terrible week in March 2021.  On Wednesday the 3r...

This is the third in my series of posts about building a democratic socialist party.  In this post, I want to focus on policies.  What polic...

In my previous post  on this topic, I blogged about four key principles for setting up a democratic socialist party, which are: 1. horizonta...

This is the first in a series of posts about creating a new democratic socialist party (although the ideas and principles could be used for ...

When Jeremy Corbyn was LOTO we were told by centrists and much of the media that if only Labour had a 'moderate' leader the Party wo...

If you are a Labour Party member you will have a party card which states: "The Labour party is a democratic socialist party". But ...

As I write this, the US presidential election is in the balance. Biden is ahead but there is no certainty he is going to win. Trump could st...

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...