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Control of Borders
A nation state consists of lines on a map defended by force. The political truism “It’s the economy stupid” rests on a more fundamental one: squaddies in sufficient numbers, adequately trained,...
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Why Is There So Little Anger About All These Scroungers?
Britain’s right wing media have long been engaged in a sustained attack against the poor, vulnerable and excluded. Increasingly the logic of this attack focuses on how, supposedly, these groups are a...
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Working for a UK Supermarket
As someone who works as a checkout assistant for a large supermarket, I thought I would write an account of what it can be like. I do actually enjoy my job, and to be fair most of the managers and...
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Housing: stripping the poor of money & power
A few years ago our local Labour council came up with the idea of “stock transfer” i.e. transferring our remaining council housing out of council ownership and control and giving it to a newly formed...
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Is the Pope a Marxist?
Appalling news from the Vatican. An Argentinian Marxist has got control of the City State. Hardly a day goes by without “Pope” Francis attacking the super-rich. How dare he? Hasn’t he read his Bible?...
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The NSA & Richard Branson
Virgin Intelligence: what could possibly go wrong? Why not abolish internet service providers, Facebook, Google, Yahoo etc and let the National Security Agency (NSA) run the internet? That way the NSA...
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Speaking with Ghosts: Morality, Ideology, Politics
In the unfashionable world of theory it is fashionable to talk of ideology as that which structures our reality rather than that which masks ‘True’ reality. As we have broken from Marx and Marxism so...
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Labour’s 2015 Manifesto – What should be in it?
Housing obviously, not least give buy-to-let landlords a kick. Some of them achieve an annual return of 16 percent. Rail: as mentioned in another thread, millions of commuters, packed into shoddy...
View ArticleBlair & ISIS — two sides of the same coin
Why has no British journalist writing in the mainstream press yet pointed out that ISIS is a creation of Tony Blair? Amid the agonising about British ISIS-affiliated Muslims decapitating their...
View ArticleAgainst Feminism
Coming out the other side of a criss The dust is beginning to settle regarding one of the key intellectual ruptures of our epoch – the ‘Crisis of Marxism’. There are a number of strands to the debates...
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Modern music is rubbish
After his DUI, perpetual chart-botherer and abject waste of carbon Justin Bieber now derives 78% of his income as a spokesperson for Right Guard. Contemporary music, alongside other contemporary...
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