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“The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.” Karl Liebknecht. Available FREE on iTunes and Podbean “The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.” Karl Liebknecht.” The first of our new format, shorter, more frequent #podcasts, this one has an international theme. Featuring Red Raiph on […]
When JFK once said that the US must keep moving forward just to stay still, one can only imagine how he would be viewing the quagmire that we find ourselves in. The Tory led Brexit swamp we are all permanently bogged down in. Yet despite the chaos and carnage that a no deal Brexit will […]
It is difficult to work out what the next steps will be in Parliament and what the Tories and the Labour party will propose in the inexorable countdown to Brexit. What we do know is what has happened up to this point. The Withdrawal Agreement negotiated between the UK and the EU has been voted […]
I’ll start with a confession. I am a big fan of British state occasions – openings of parliament, royal weddings, state funerals and sundry solemn occasions. I love them. The British Establishment does them incredibly well, from the hushed tones of the reverential commentators to the throngs lining London’s beautiful streets, to the Red Arrow […]
Why Brexit cannot and must not take place on the 29th of March, 2019 Breaking News – Theresa May’s ‘deal’ has just been defeated in the House of Commons by 432 votes to 202!!! However you voted in the referendum, whatever you think about the merits or failings of the EU, everyone please just stop and think. […]
Originally published in International Green Socialist The Insanity of Brexit debates. Forward The Marxist method of rising from the abstract to the concrete, concerns the construction of conceptual models (theory) which correspond to things which have material existence. In the political sphere of course, we are concerned with human social practices. Practices of course are […]
Ungagged asked me to write something about the current UK political rollercoaster so here goes. Though where do you even begin? For me it actually feels more like being trapped in a giant kaleidoscope with a new political pattern emerging almost every day. Yet nothing really changes.In a way UK politics has been held […]
As I flick from watching Liverpool handle a European competition in a far finer manner than Theresa May and the Tory Party to comments on social media, I am shocked, befuddled and amazed at the lack of any political insight by Members of Parliament of opposition parties. The call by the likes of Ian […]
The problem now lies not in Scots understanding that the conception of the British Union as a ‘Union of Equals’ is nonsense, but in whether or not they care enough to do something about it. One could write an analysis of the British government’s Brexit deal the size of a small book, but, for Scots, […]
In the last two weeks I have been on two demonstrations. The first was an anti-fascist mobilisation to counter a march by the so-called Democratic Football Lads’ Alliance (DFLA) aka Tommy Robinson’s would-be stormtroopers. The second, a week later, was the People’s Vote March. The first was like many demonstrations, too numerous to recall, that […]