Archive

• The civil war in the LP was NEVER about antisemitism.
• English patriotism and the left – a political conundrum
• The new Reclaim Party and the ‘culture wars’ – the incoherence of our two party system and the failure of liberalism
• An alternative to the Labour Party?
• Left, Right and Centre? Who the f**k is who?
• What is to be gained by democratic socialists staying in the LP?
• The myth of the Labour right’s concern with ‘electability’
• Poor Lives Matter: Class and Identity Politics
• The LP is finished as an alternative to the Tories.
• “Tropes” – The Curse Of Contemporary Public Discourse
• Momentum: The Glory Year of 2016… Crushed By Labourism
• Labourism; Is the Labour Party part of the solution or part of the problem?
• The right wing of the Labour Party are the most morally bankrupt fuckers in UK politics.
• There may be a a small number of racist morons in the LP but that is absolutely NOT what the anti-Semitism crisis was/is about.
• Does anyone else on the left care about freedom of speech?
• Proud to be a Corbynista
• Your Slavery is their Freedom | George Monbiot
• Is it time for a campaign of social disobedience to refuse payment of the BBC licence fee?
• The deserving rich and the undeserving poor…
• The Emperor’s New Constitutional Crisis
• Brutish Britain v Civilised Europe? Socialist Internationalism v Capitalist Globalisation?
• The moral imperative of revolt!
• Goodbye Labour!
• Fascism And The Daily Mail
• Mechanics Of Anti-Semitism Witch Hunt Revealed
• Anti-Semitism Accusations Get Very Close To Home!
• Is it time for that elusive realignment of UK politics? I do hope so!
• The right-wing of the Labour Party need to address their colonialist, Islamophobic and Arabophobic racism!
• Anti-Anti-Jewish conspiracies
• What we say and the way we say it? Anti-Semitism in the Labour Party
• Coercive Control In The Workplace
• Neoliberal identity politics has failed and has to be replaced with class politics
• Higher Ground?
• Corporate Culture and Being Human
• In Memorium
• The Conservative Workers Party! Wtf?
• At last the neoliberal era is over!
• Once upon a time in a land not too far away…
• Anti-Semitism, colonialism and the banality of evil.
• My review of Adam Curtis’ Hypernormalisation on the Culture Matters website.
• The Lansman Momentum Constitutional Coup isn’t really about Lansman at all – its about Corbyn and McDonnell
• Political Managerialism, Proceduralism, Electorialism and Legalism 
• Brexit is going to be the death of Corbyn
• Three Score Years And Ten
• Pity the purgers, their days are numbered
• Post truth politics is just invented, its not a reality
• This is NOT 1982. Corbyn is NOT Michael Foot and Momentum are NOT Militant
• JC4PM Sticks It To The Tory Conference!
• It’s Only Common Sense!
• Hoist by their own petard?
• Triangulation = Strangulation
• Orwell’s Newspeak is alive and well on the right-wing of the Labour Party.
• The Labour Party And Democracy
• Do I want Labour to win an election? Depends what the policies are!
• Ousting Corbyn will not ease the Remainers pain
• The ‘facts’ are all contested or inconclusive, you are going to have to decide for yourself!
• What would be the political point of a ‘democratised’ EU?
• The left v right divide in the UK isn’t between the Labour Party and the Conservative Party but right down the middle of the Labour Party.
• Corbyn constantly proves the media wrong and they hate him for it!
• Okay, enough is enough, now it’s put up or shut up!
• Criticism of an Israeli government action or policy is NOT the same as calling for the destruction of Israel
• # This Is A Coup?
• Okay, I’ve thought about it and I’m voting ‘in’!
• Is supporting a political party the same as supporting a football team?
• A beginners guide to the EU from a Sceptical Socialist.
• ‘Men-in-Suits’ Are Not To Be Trusted!
• BBC bias has to be addressed – being ‘in the centre’ isn’t being impartial!
• Can the technocratic, bureaucratic, EU ever be reconciled with any meaningful concept of democracy?
• Winners And Losers!
• The Doctors Strike Is The Miners Strike Of The Professional Middle-Class.
• Must I fight or go mad?
• History’s Biggest Fraud?
• Corbyn and Capitalism
• WTF? “The British value of privileging the individual over the collective arise from the institutions of the state.”
• Political Principles And The Labour Party?
• Maybe this is really at the root of the split in the Labour Party?
• On Public Opinion And Policy
• On Deterrence and Trident
• On The Media As Politics
• We’ve been here before folks.
• On Corbyn The Terrorist Sympathiser
• Jeremy Corbyn and the bloody ‘floating voters’!
• On the Blairite v Corbyinista blame game
• Corbyn And The Commentariat
• Very excited! I’ve just been banned from my first Facebook forum!
• The PLP v The People
• It’s the economy stupid! But not the neoliberal economy, rather the Keynsian, mixed economy!
• Corbynism is the only moderate, rational and sane response to a broken, crisis-torn, global capitalism
• Wisconsin Rising?
• Politeness As A Tool Of Tyranny And The Tyranny Of Niceness
• Corbyn won. And I mean really won. So PLP – Put up, or shut up!
• Moderate? Schmoderate!
• Moderates and Metro-liberals think they rule the world!
• On Left v Right
• By the people, for the people? My Arse!
• Corbyn must see this through!
• Why The BBC Pisses Everyone Off!
• Seventies Britain Was A great Place to Live
• Modern bourgeois morality privileges good manners and being polite above doing ‘good’.
• The morally bankrupt real-politik of Western foreign policy over the last 100 years has to end. We have to align our actions with our rhetoric.
• Dissolve Left unity Says Lead speaker – I agree
• Why The British Left Must Defend The BBC
• Oh, What A Night!
• On The 2015 UK Election Results
• £5000 a week + £1635 a week in perks for chief university bureaucrat?
• Clarkson? It couldn’t happen to a nicer guy!
• Love this from Dom Helder Camara, one of the founders of Liberation Theology.
• Presentation before 20% of the Montana Communist Party on visit to Washington DC.
• Wow! People are interested in politics after all! Well, duuuur…
• Inaugural Tolpuddle Radical Film Festival A Huge Success!
• Only a week to go before first ever Tolpuddle Radical Film Festival!
• Some photo’s of the reading of my new play, Defiance, at The Space On The Isle Of Dogs.
• UCU Pay Dispute and the Future of academic staff in Higher Education
• The news is written by the victors
• History is written by the victors – the media coverage of Tony Benn’s passing
• 25% of us will suffer depression or mental illness in the next 12 months
• Raise Hell And Change The World!
• The Social Media Stasi
• Are Bob Crow and the RMT walking into a trap?
• This made me laugh!
• Can’t wait to see this new film!
• The Liberty Tree wins national playwriting competition.
• Woody Guthrie’s New Year Resolutions
• Another Little Shit
• If I Were A Rich Man… ‘S Son?
• Public Domain Website Goes Live
• Adbuster – The Production Of Meaning (Over-consumption)
• Corporate Scroungers
• Thought unrevealed can do no ill
• Connected; but alone – the connection between Social Networks and Being Lonely?
• It is necessary to dare in order to succeed
• Did Cameron want to ‘Hang Mandela’?
• Nelson Mandela is gone but his courage, persistence and integrity is an inspiration to all
• Police attack on Senate House occupation: eyewitness account
• Some things that it might surprise you to discover don’t exist in the material world:
• University of London students and staff kettled and arrested
• Statement of students who occupied the headquarters of the University of London at Senate House
• Education is not a commodity
• No man is good enough to govern another man without his consent – Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865
• All the world’s a political Stage
• Freedom is having time to live!
• The true meaning of ‘trickle down’
• JS Mill’s Cauldron Of Ideas
• Dirty Wars Out On 29th Nov
• CLASS – Centre For Labour And Social Studies
• Ruined Lives | The Library | Class: Centre for Labour and Social Studies
• The Salt Of The Earth
• Power concedes nothing without demand
• I told you fucking chunts to pay attention!
• The fruits of the earth belong to us all…
• In the beginning everything was common to all.
• What are governments but great bands of robbers?
• What past American leaders said about trde unions…
• Free Speech And The Theatre?
• Manchester March Photo’s 29th Sep
• Free School And Academies Myth Busters
• How many will die for the beautiful game?
• Anti Acadamies Alliance – http://antiacademies.org.uk/
• On The Tyranny Of The Markets
• NEVER FORGET – NEVER FORGIVE – NEVER AGAIN
• “All in this together” by the Doleanimators
• This literally made me cry with joyous laughter!!!!
• Michael Gove: governments must stop lying to children about life chances
• Nick Clegg turns on Michael Gove over his ‘ideological’ school reforms
• Wealth is considerably more heritable than genes
• It ain’t over ’til it’s over…
• The Eton Scholarship Question: this is how the British elite are trained to think
• The PIGSPUBES narrative
• Academy Schools And Local Power.
• This made me smile… ruefully and without much hope, but a smile nonetheless.
• Capitalism as a very recent legal construct.
• A world run by the Men In Grey
• It’s just the same old, same old…
• Dante put usurers in the same circle of hell as the inhabitants of Sodom and other practisers of unnatural vice.
• Right wing propogandists go as far as destroying evidence of our radical past.
• This made me laugh…
• Myth: The national economy can be run like a household
• Obsessive Rationality Disorder
• ALF and TINA Get Married. If you tell a lie long enough…
• A Patriotic Reply To Paul Dacre And The Daily Mail
• Cameron & Thatcher Hate This Country
• Protest: for everyone the Daily Mail hates
• Ross Kemp accuses Boris Johnson of lying to Londoners on Fire Brigade cuts
• This made me laugh!
• National demonstration at the Tory Party conference
• National demonstration: No attack on Syria – Stop the War Coalition
• Churchill knew what the Tories are like!
• Academies and Lies – The Parents, the Politician and the Carpet Bagger
• Who are the real artful dodgers?
• Un-Be-fucking-lievable!!!!
• Austerity Myth Busters
• Occupation Of Greek TV National Broadcaster
• I personally hope that little shit Gove ends his days hanging from a lamppost.
• If you’re still not sure bankers are wankers… watch this!
• The People’s Assembly This Sunday
• Destroy Racism Poster
• Reasons to be cheerful, 1, 2, 3…liberty, egalite, fraternity
• Mad though it be, vain though it be, we must fight, for we are men……..and Women!
• Nike profit from slavery
• Great poster from the 1970’s
• Support the Spirit Level Film
• Tories Plan To Ration Visits To GP’s!!!!!
• Now that’s what you call political rhetoric!
• Austerity in a nutshell
• What I want to be – Prose Poem
• The Lawyers Are Revolting!
• Corporate Life
• Teresa Forcades, the radical Catalan nun on a mission – video
• Mind The Gap
• Bangladesh wages could be doubled, tripled or quadrupled with almost no effect on the prices we pay!
• Nursing The Nation – By Molly Case
• A sweatshop is better than the alternative…..?
• M.O.D mount £500 million Raid on Health & Education Budget!
• Union Power And Recognition
• Notes On The Arts & The Academy
• On Green Politics
• Gawd help me!
• Thatcher Saved The Nation?
• What a legend!
• Thatchers Legacy
• Chumbawamba – In Memorium: Margaret Thatcher
• The Maid Of Grantham? Give us a break!!!!
• Daily Mail Driven Insane (sorry that should be) ‘Inane’ By Maggie’s Death
• Glenda Jackson’s Tribute To Baroness Thatcher!
• Godbyeeeee, goodbyeee….
• Maggie, Maggie, Maggie; Dead, Dead, Dead!
• And to illustrate Laurie Penny’s point from the previous post…….
• Great piece by Laurie (Red) Penny
• When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard.
• To be governed……
• Cracking Activist Images
• Ricky Tomlinson Petition
• A work of genius!!!!!
• The March That Shook Blair
• 2012 in review
• Insatiable!
• Democracy, Schemocracy!
• Community In Action
• Daniel Pearson – Factory Floor
• A Future That Works: TUC march 20th October
• They are ‘all in it together’ after all – in the cess pit.
• Universities As Vehicles For Neoliberal Propaganda
• Waiting For The World To Change
• Capitalist Vampires
• Free Jeremy Hammond
• Tax The Billionaire – Tommy Sands
• Neoliberalism: Not Just A Financial Crisis But A Crisis Of Democracy
• A Definition Of Managerialism?
• 20th October – A national demonstration against austerity
• There’s No Such Thing As Markets
• It is all about me after all!
• On Democracy, Plutocracy and Realpolitik
• Occuprint – creative activism at it’s best
• This is not suicide; it is financial murder
• On Harmony, Conflict And Class
• Defend the Right To Protest: Justice for Alfie Meadows
• City Boy Advert
• A Very British Coup
• Tax Cheating Scum
• ITV journalists are not investigative reporters – says ITV journalist
• Upper classes ‘more likely to lie and cheat’
• £200,000 raised by 38 Degrees NHS poster campaign so far this week
• Social mobility is higher in societies which have smaller income gaps.
• Join The Fight Against the Privatisation Of The NHS
• When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?
• Looking for a riot……?
• Cultures Of Resistance
• The Flaw *****
• Cartoon Politics
• Fucking Desert, Dude!
• Resistance is not futile!
• Why wasn’t this on the news?
• The Cost Of Inequality
• If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.”
• On Just World Theory
• On Holding The Country To Ransom
• Reds Without Beds – Occupy Portland’s Plan to Shut Down The Corporations
• People Power Matters!
• Rudolf rocks! Anarcho-Synicalism v Libertarian Freemarketeers.
• The next step for all of us?
• Adam Smith – the old Lefty
• Wage labor? Wage slavery?
• Capitalism is depressing!
• The New Common Wealth
• New Posters Page on I Am Not a Number
• Is the purpose of school and university to educate workers or citizens?
• Oh, why, oh, why, do they hate us so much?
• Bosses Are Psychopaths
• America: The Land Of The Free…….Free to be barking bloody mad!
• We’re all in it together!?
• It has ever been thus!
• New Radical Street Theatre Company Launched
• If Jefferson could predict this 200 years ago, how come so many still can’t see it today?
• Even Presidents of the Bank of England hate Bankers!
• What Abraham Lincoln thought of bankers
• The Great Escape From Capitalism!
• Public, Principled Dissent and the Occupy Movement
• Los Indignados
• The Last Vacation Of Christ – You couldn’t make this shit up!
• On Profit & Efficiency
• Real People, Businesses & The Real World.
• The Democratic Threat to Capitalism
• Tell David Cameron: Back the Robin Hood Tax at the G20
• The Statistics of Western State Terror
• The Scorpion And The Frog
• Inciting Violence – Irony And The English Riots
• Paul Jacobs Activism Clip
• The Challenge Of Affluence
• Beware The Banksters!
• Kafka Himself Couldn’t Make This Shit Up!
• Chomsky On Why A Transparent Media Is So Important
• How Grass-Roots activism Works
• Fair & Balanced – as always!
• New NH$
• 38 Degrees Campaign To Save Our Forests
• On The Cult Of Managers
• Why isn’t this on the news?
• Explosion of food poverty in the US & UK
• Manchester March For The Alternative
• My Banksy Rip Off Poster
• Join the NHS vigil online
• Income, Inequality, Interrogate!
• We’re All In This Together!?
• ConDem Love!
• We’re All To Blame?
• I Love Jarvis Cocker!!!!!!!!!
• UK Bank Bail Out = 93.5% of UK National Debt
• Bachmann Scares The Shit Out Of Me
• Cuts and riots: they’re linked!
• The Revolting Underclass?
• TRUE CRIME STORIES: SOME NEW LABOUR MEMOIRS
• On The Cult Of Managers
• Greece: The home of democracy
• It’s Dog Eat Dog Out There
• Loony Left Conspiracy theories?
• How much lower can Rupert Murdoch’s media empire sink?
• Wouldn’t it be nice?
• For The Many Not The Few
• Stop The Excution Of Troy Davis!
• Seperate And Unequal – The Growing Rich-Poor Gap in The USA
• The Twitterati Need To Watch This
• The New College For The Hubristic
• You must watch this!
• As True Today As It was Then
• Narrative And Moral Meaning
• Why Student Fees Benefit The Wealthy
• On The Privatisation Of Prisons
• The end of history? Ha!
• On Why The Wealthy Want Us All To Be “Customers”.
• The two men who put the “n” in Cuts
• Michael Moore Speaking In Madison Wisconsin
• Bringing Home The Cuts!
• HOPE NOT HATE’S BIG WEEKEND: APRIL 2011
• Equality Trust Proves Link between Inequality And Violent Crime!
• Sign This Petition To Save The NHS!
• The NHS Is Not For Sale
• Unions Fight Back in the USA
• So there’s no money left, huh?
• Trade Union Solidarity With Egyptian Workers
• The Greedy And The Pompous Gather At Davos
• March for the Alternative – TUC march, 26 March
• Excerpts from The Corporation by Joel Bakan
• So there’s no money, huh?
• On Bankers Bonuses
• On The Workplace Therapy Culture
• On The Social Gene [2]
• On Banks And Business – Both Large And Small
• On The Meaning Of Class
• Haaaaaaappy Chriiiiiiiiistmas!
• On The Incompatibility Of Free Markets And Conservative Philosophy
• On Footballers Wages And The Efficiency Of Free Markets
• On Work Avoidance And Tax Evasion
• On Showbiz, Celebrity And The Free Press
• On Violent Demonstrations And Democracy
• Commercial Attack On WikiLeaks Reveals True Nature Of The Relationship Between Big Business And Government
• WikiLeaks War Of Words
• It’s all Lies!
• Cameron reacts to student protests
• Inspiring YouTube clips from the Coalition of Resistance Conference
• On Civil Disobedience And The Rule Of Law
• On The Humanties Versus The Sciences
• On Fighting for A Country Worth Dying For
• On Work Avoidance Versus Tax Evasion
• Corporate Values Take Over UK HE (and everywhere else)
• Culture And Class By John Holden – Book Review
• On Capitalism And Freedom By Milton Friedman – Book Review
• On The Public Subsidy Of The Private Sector
• On The Squeezed Middle
• Comrades – DVD Review
• Hobbes Festival – Event Review
• On Efficiency
• 23 Things they don’t Tell You About Capitalism – Book Review
• On Multiple Universes, The Big Bang And The Meaning Of Life
• It Happened Here And Winstanley – DVD Review
• On The Moral Implications Of Badger Culling
• On Justice
• On The Pope, Secularism And The Big Society
• Taxi To The Dark Side – DVD Review
• On Internet Privacy And Corporate Intrusion
• On The BBC, Rupert Murdoch And Democracy
• On Political Alternatives
• On Socialism And Liberty
• On Lee – The Nice Racist?
• On Badgers, Experts And Democracy
• On Representative Democracy And Apathy
• On The Deserving Rich
• On Meritocracy And Private Education
• On Being Free In A Free Market
• On Shakespeare And The Classics
• On The “Social” Gene
• On Managerialism
• On Swearing
• On The Use Of Public Money To Subsidise The Arts
• On Being A Good Boy