My public school days and the building of upper class solidarity
To understand the British public school system, or certainly, the part of it in which I spent my teenage years, it is crucial to get your head around three things.…
Beyond ninety-nine-percentism: dreaming of actually occupying Wall Street and not being frightened of ‘revolution’
Sophielle writes from New York One notable feature of Occupy Wall Street is its participants’ lack of hesitation in using the term ‘revolution’. Here comes the revolution! This is the first…
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…
What is the Commons, and how does it work?
This is the third in a series of ‘Case for the Commons: the kinder Society we want’ posts - the fourth will try to begin answering the question: Why do we…
AC Grayling – the executioner
It was, of course, inevitable. For years now, UK governments have massively underfunded higher education. We sit in the bottom quarter of OECD countries for public funding for universities. But…
The M word: It’s time to take Marx beyond ‘Marxism’
Following my last blog there were a few comments referring to how the Green Party must avoid being 'Marxist' and how left wing polices will only appeal to the dreaded…