Quote of the Week: Alexander Berkman
“Think it over and see if it is not the law itself, the government which really creates crime by compelling people to live
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Capitalism
The Real Scroungers
During this sickening time of the Pandora Papers, mutliple crises, Covid cronyism, Branson, Musk and Bezos flying into space on profits they’ve amassed
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Pandora’s Box
The recent leaking of 11.9 million files from offshore companies reveals the corruption of the system and the greed of the rich. In
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The chicken’s come home to roost (but will the Turkeys get a reprieve at Christmas?)
The present crisis which has seen panic buying, particularly of petrol but also of the usual ‘panic’ commodities such as toilet roll and
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Shifting Ground?
At the 2010 UK general election The Financial Times, the house paper of capital, argued for a vote for the Conservative Party and
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No one is safe until everyone is safe
The situation in India has highlighted the global inequality that has existed throughout the pandemic. The virus may have started in China, but
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Mirror of Greed and a Mirror of Resistance
Despite the pleas of some to “keep politics out of sport”, politics and sport have mixed since the classic Olympic games, via the
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Bosses feed at the trough whilst we are given crumbs
Boss of the gambling firm Bet365, Denise Coates, awarded herself a salary of £421 million this last financial year ending 29th March, as
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The Budget: the ruling class looks after itself, again
Throughout the pandemic, we have seen how the working class has paid the price in terms of lives, physical and mental suffering, and
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Fear and Loathing of the Working Class
Last week a report on the results of a survey of the British publics attitude to inequality (pre- and) post-COVID by the Institute
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