Windrush mural to go on show at the Tate
A MURAL tribute to the Windrush generation, originally designed for Brixton tube station, is going on show at the Tate and is to become part of Tate Britain’s permanent collection.…
Plaid Cymru deal pushes Labour leftward
PLAID Cymru members endorsed a radical plan on Saturday that, whilst not giving the Party of Wales any Cabinet posts, puts them centre stage in Welsh politics. Despite a successful…
Welcome to Critical Mass Issue 8
Welcome to Issue 8 of Critical Mass. When we began one of our stated aims was to change the conversation around socialism. Today, for the first time we publish a…
Spotlight on Howard Thorp
Howard Thorp was a founding member of both Creating Socialism and Critical Mass. Howard became a socialist at grammar school where he witnessed class wealth and privilege for the first…
Short Conversations: During the Storm
Short Conversations: During the Storm, is Luke Andreski’s new book, which discusses, among other things, the Climate Crisis, and follows on from Short Conversations: During the Plague, published last year…
Dystopia: Slipping Into The Abyss
Are we already living in a dystopia? A widening gap between rich and poor. Rising costs of living. Technology invading and permeating every facet of our lives. Climate change threatening…
Fighting back against disability stigma
IT reflects the times we live in that disabled people are stigmatised and dehumanised in society. Ableist language is used in everyday life, and even I’ve been guilty of failing…
Talking about…vaccine passports
The conversation below is reproduced, with the permission of the participants, from a Twitter discussion group. It was prompted by the news piece in Critical Mass entitled ‘Jabs for jobs…
Lifeboats and Refugees
As my regular followers know, I’m a supporter of independent lifeboats rather than RNLI – for reasons I explain in a blog that I post most days at noon –…