I enjoyed yesterday’s trip down memory lane. Judging on number of visits, comments below the line and private emails sent in response, so did others. Though a scribbler all my life, I only really found my stride fifteen years ago … Read More »
I’m resistant to the idea of covid-19 as a huge scam, cooked up for one or more of – introducing draconian curbs to liberty … tilting further the balance of class forces from labour to capital … covering up for … Read More »
When death stalks us it is not bankers we turn to, or corporate executives, or hedge fund managers. Nonetheless, those are the people our societies have best rewarded. Marx is misunderstood. His use of the word materialism is not the … Read More »
Do not miss this. Yanis Varoufakis on the political and economic impact of the crisis – and its inextricable links with the 2008 crash. Price to you? Eighteen minutes and twenty-two seconds of your life. (See also: Kevin Ovenden on … Read More »
(See also: Kevin Ovenden on Covid-19 … Varoufakis on Covid-19) Anne, a good friend from down under, posted this an hour ago on FB: In spite of everything, there seem to be some potentially significant and positive things arising from … Read More »
I’m a big admirer of blogger Caitlin Johnstone. Along with John Pilger and Julian Assange she’s one of the best things to have come out of Australia. She doesn’t always wow me – unlike me she posts daily so that … Read More »