The harsh reality of food banks
We are almost at that time of year when the press office teams at the increasingly corporate food bank operators pump out the annual reports and latest figures for the millions who…
Welcome to Critical Mass
Welcome to Critical Mass, the online magazine of the Creating Socialism Collective. Relax. We are not another new socialist party that is going to save the world. We don’t have…
Invading Hordes
A brief poem on the seemingly continuous clash between reality and our media when it comes to migration. The Sixty Second ScribePondering life and all it’s wonders, sixty seconds at…
The Socialist Tradition: it’s a family affair.
If you listen to some of the self-proclaimed pundits and experts in the “quality” papers and on the heavyweight political chat shows on a Sunday morning there is an underlying…
Isn’t it time to say “enough”?
Susie Granic IN-WORK poverty. Should that even be a thing? When I started work many, many decades ago it was simply assumed that once you left school or university you…
Kabul Airport 16 August 2021
KABUL AIRPORT 16 AUGUST 2021 “Completing the pre-flight checklist:” Flight controls — Checked Instruments and radios — Checked Altimeter — Checked Gyroscope — Checked Fuel gauges — Checked Propeller — Checked…
Climate crisis: The role of the US military
WITH the US withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan heading the news, it is time to look again at another effect of the world’s most powerful military force. (Note, most powerful,…
Our Service Becomes Our Lives
The bell has been rung, We are at the last. Freedom lost, we are soon to be a symbol of the past, Before there was a serpent in our halls.…
Boy, that escalated quickly
Heroes Assemble So, here we are in some cinematic end game conclusion to what feels like the beginning of the movie franchise. Just as the Social Justice Warriors start assembling…
Covid crisis increases domestic violence
Charities such as Women’s Aid highlighted their concerns about the increasing risk of domestic violence due to isolation when the first lockdown was announced in March 2020. Refuge, a charity…