The way the economic wind blows and what it means for the left
With employment increasing, is the economic crisis nearing an end? or are we heading for triple dip recession as manufacturing and exports shrink? Will the economy be on the mend…
The capital mobility myth: 'You better not piss off the rich'
Whether it be workers demanding higher wages and better conditions or citizens demanding higher taxes on corporations and the rich, the response from business chiefs and their drudges in the…
Turning altruism into exploitation
Today a new campaign 'Justice for Interns / Volunteers' is being launched by charity workers hoping to end what they see as the exploitative practices of many charities. This got…
From satanic mills to shopping malls: towards a new era of struggle against insecurity
An invitation In my last blog I argued that the left needed a theory of social change, and that the lack of one is at the heart of many of…
Which way is the wind blowing? Or why we need a theory of social change
Bob Dylan famously sang “You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows” these words chimed with 1960s youth across advanced capitalists countries, who were becoming…
Kony 1984
On Tuesday, as I logged into facebook and twitter, it seemed everywhere I gazed people were posting videos and hash tags telling me that it was 2012, Kony 2012 in…
Anti anti-growth and the fallacy of economics
As our current economic model continues to drive us relentlessly towards the precipice of cataclysmic environmental destruction. While simultaneously forcing us to contemplate a 'lost decade' of stagnate high unemployment,…
The alienated ‘Multitude’: ‘the Class’ of the 21st century
Throughout the 20th century development amongst workers of 'class consciousness', the subjective awareness of ones objective class interests, was seen as central to the hopes of achieving a transition away…
Class still counts
The past year has witnessed an unprecedented level of class struggle, never before have the various mechanisms for mobilising class interests been so perfectly enacted. Sadly, I am not referring…
It’s better to break the law than to break the poor
We need a little perspective before discussing the cuts. The fact of the matter is that the cuts will beyond any doubt kill people. M Harvey Brenner showed through his…