Category: Issue 011

The free PDF containing all the material from this month's Critical Mass is here in one stunning PDF.

This month’s issue has a number of articles about concerns for the future of the NHS. The Tories don’t like to call their plans ‘privatisation.’ They prefer ‘outsourcing.’ Having seen…

Lambast by Michael Gurner, aka The Sixty Second Scribe, is poetry for our time. Michael is best known to readers of Critical Mass for the short videos we publish of…

The government has already shown how it is willing to outsource public sector responsibilities to private companies, at astronomical costs, despite the fact that the service they provide is insufficient…

The astonishing wealth of the truly rich Popular British newspapers habitually quote footballers’ salaries as a weekly wage, and fans are encouraged to gasp when the top ones are on…

In his book, Drums in the distance – journeys into the global far right, Joe Mulhall describes his experiences of far right movements around the world.   He watches these movements, often from the…

THIS is the first of a series of articles on people, individuals or groups, who have inspired us.  I was greatly influenced by Julius Nyerere of Tanzania. His speeches, publications,…

Based on a folktale from Japan. ‘Mukashi mukashi’ as they say in Japan or as we say, ‘once upon a time’, there was a young and handsome fisherman named Urashima…

Author Robert Greene is a phenomenon. More than twenty years ago Robert Greene was a failed writer whose curriculum vitae and list of jobs read like Jack London’s. He bounced…

The circumstances which would make a socialist election victory possible would be such that winning a parliamentary election in order to maintain capitalism with a human face might be the…