Bin charges; hundreds sleeping on the streets in the midst of an economic boom; soaring profits for the banks while many workers can’t afford decent housing; underfunding of health, education and public transport.
This is the reality for workers in Ireland today, elsewhere, and particularly in Africa, it is far worse. For years we have been told that this is the way it is, that there is ‘no alternative’. This is a lie.
A talk given as part of a debate organised by the Trotskyist party "Alliance for Workers’ Liberty." A basic introduction to why anarchism is better than Leninism.
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.
A few thoughts on Obama’s election victory. Yes, it is historic but real change comes from below and anarchists need to stress that.
A few comments on Paul Krugman winning the so-called Nobel Prize for Economics. He may be left-of-centre and a Keynesian, but his economics are sadly very much neo-classical in nature.
Review of an excellent book on the 1990s “New Economy” hype.
Review of two books on social struggle, one on the 1930s and one on the anti-globalisation movement.
A critique of an SWP attack on libertarian anti-capitalist protestors. Exposes the hypocrisy of Leninists attacking others as undemocratic as well as the impractical nature of their alternative.
A critique of an “anarcho”-capitalist attempt to steal the term syndicalism (like anarchism and libertarian by redefining it away from what it historically means). Ironically, the attempt shows why “anarcho”-capitalism is just not anarchist.
Some comments on the continuing crisis in the stock markets, discussing how economic ideology contributed to it and how capitalism has always been based on socialising costs and risk while privatising profits.