A review of Tony Benn’s 2005 TV programme on democracy. It points out the democracy has many meanings and can, and is, used to justify elite rule.
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Mind the Gap!
A discussion of the state of the economy from 2017. Discusses the gap between mainstream economic theory and reality, the gap in income and wealth between the working and capitalist classes, and the gap between the proposed solutions and what is really needed.
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Tories for social justice? WTF?!?!
The Tories are trying to out-left New Labour. Not difficult to do, but it really is a joke considering their track-record and current notions. Written before the 2010 election when the Tories were pretending to care about things to get a few votes rather than track (far) right.
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Review: Towards A Libertarian Socialism
A review of a collection of writings by G.D.H. Cole, a leading Guild Socialist in Britain before the First World War. They show that while he moved to a more Labourite position, he retained his libertarian views to a large degree. It appeared in Anarcho-Syndicalist Review, No. 85 (Spring 2022)
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Review: The British Communist Left, 1914-1945
A review of a “communist-left” (Bordigist) book on the British anti-parliamentarian communist movement which developed during and after the First World War. Suffice to say, it is not very good, as befitting Bordigist ideology.
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