Socialism 101: Don’t we need capitalist entrepreneurs to create wealth and jobs?
By Eddie McCabe A system as obscenely unequal as capitalism has to create and constantly promote certain myths. To morally justify a world where
Fourth flood warning in 10 days as flood defence schemes flounder
By Jonathan Diebold The disaster movie 2012 shows a world ravaged by extreme weather events, apparently predicted hundreds of years prior by the Mayan
Epstein horror story: truth far stranger than fiction
By James McCabe “I don’t understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of any interest to anybody. It’s pretty boring stuff. It’s sordid,
The Minnesota revolt against Trump’s war on migrants
By Conor Payne The Trump administration has developed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as a key tool in their racist plan for ‘mass deportations’,
Government leaning into the far-right playbook on immigration
By Robert Cosgrave Describing the racist political climate of 1970s Britain, the Sri Lankan Tamil socialist A. Sivanandan commented that “what Enoch Powell [a
“Kalaallit Nunaat, Kalaallit pigaat” – Greenland belongs to the Greenlanders
By Lenn Viken Since the beginning of this new year, we have been reminded again and again that we are living in the midst
Will capitalism bring progress in the coming years?
By James McCabe Out with the old optimistic rhetoric In 2023, the old-school big tech liberal Bill Gates proclaimed that he was “very optimistic
On ‘left alliances’ – the opposition, cooperation, and the next government
By Eddie McCabe In a world of demagogic “strongman” leaders like Trump, Putin and Netanyahu, and spineless ones like Keir Starmer or Micháel Martin,