Capitalism and Food: Consuming Hunger

Under capitalism, we recognise a huge mistake among those wanting to see changes for the better – not that positive changes are undesirable but simply that tinkering with a mechanism (or machine) that has been invented or created erroneously can’t be the best way to fix the problem. Anyone drawn to the idea and principles …

How to Destroy Capitalism: Blueprint for Revolution

In 2016 the pressure group Corporate Watch published a book Capitalism.What it is and How Can We Destroy it? Written by a dyed-in-the-wool anarchist, it didn’t provide a satisfactory answer to the second question, just that if enough individuals did their anarchist thing that would do it. Nor is it a question of simply destroying …

A Letter from Turkey: Hard Times in Asia Minor

Letter from Turkey: On the Hard Landing Strip Turkey’s Black Friday would be a good way to describe 10 August when the value of the Turkish lira plummeted by at least 14 percent in a single day to 6.428 TL to the US dollar. Since the beginning of 2018, the lira has shed 41 percent …

The Hard Left: A 21st Century Anachronism

The conservatism of the Hard Left One of the things the Socialist Party is often accused of by what is loosely called the Hard Left is ‘utopianism’. We are ‘utopian’ for wanting to establish an alternative to capitalism where goods and services are no longer produced for sale but to directly satisfy human need, where …

Material World: Ortega – The new Somoza?

There are those on the Left who view the protests in Nicaragua as instigated by US imperialism intent upon creating a compliant client state. Kevin Zeese, for instance, describes the disorder as an attempted coup ‘This unrest is a full-scale regime change operation carried out by media oligarchs, a network of NGOs funded by the …

Wood for the Trees: Memories of the Future

Humankind has always had a fascination for both its past and its future. Although the events that make up history are unchangeable their interpretation is always evolving and dependent, to a large extent, on the political and cultural context of the historian. The same is true of speculations and prophesies for the future. When I …

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