Author: Mike Stanton

Which Side Are You On? is a great song about class struggle. It came out of a miners’ strike in Kentucky during the Depression. It’s an easy question. On one…

Yesterday’s budget was full of tricks. But look closely and there were not many treats. Sunak ignored the moral millionaires who asked to pay more tax and shift the burden…

Journalism is not a crime Today people are demonstrating in London to say Don’t Extradite Assange. Julian Assange, the publisher of WikiLeaks, has spent more than two years on remand…

South Korea’s General Strike struggled to make the news yesterday. But a missile strike by North Korea to test their submarine based ballistic missile system in the Sea of Japan…

The shocking murder of David Amess has stunned us all. A man has been arrested and any comment right now would be pure speculation. But this inevitably reminds us of…

Black authors are being ignored even though it has never been more obvious that Black Lit matters. But it has been a long time coming. When Bernadine Evaristo’s Booker-winning novel Girl,…

Covid revealed many fault lines in our society, none more so than the lethal effects of racism. The recent parliamentary report, Coronavirus: lessons learned to date, that Critical Mass reported…

The noble game could learn from the Nobel Prize about the real nobility of courage in the defence of truth and justice. The Noble Game For the noble game of…

I despise Boris Johnson. Hardly surprising for a life long socialist. But he is Prime Minister. He remains one of the most popular politicians in the country. He has a…

To promote Black Maternal Health Awareness Week we published a news item in Critical Mass about the shocking rates of mortality among Black women in maternity care. This attracted some criticism over the lack…