The consequences of a housing market crash
There has been increasing speculation that the perfect storm of factors (increasing energy prices, cost of food and drink, tax hikes, fuel costs etc) could result in a recession and a…
Welcome to Critical Mass 13
Welcome to Critical Mass! This month’s issue focuses on the international situation as well as including all of our regular items. The war in Ukraine has dominated our lives in…
Turn the Power Off on 1st April
With big price rises planned for domestic fuel, campaign group Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) are planning a novel protest, called the Big Power Off, on 1st April 2022. The…
How to be an internationalist
Socialism, so we are told, is an international creed. The idea that it is possible to build socialism in one country was pretty much destroyed by Stalinist Russia. Whatever exists…
Breakfast With Psychopaths
I didn’t have anything to write about in the last issue. I was coping with a family emergency at exactly the wrong time, and the needs of others took top…
After Endings Afterthoughts – Horizon Forbidden West – Death To All Robots!
When Horizon Zero Dawn was released back in 2017 I was absolutely dismayed to be unable to play it. At the time I didn’t have a PlayStation, so naturally when…
The Lost Burdens – Chapter 5
Prologue Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 There are many ways to beat an enemy who is far more powerful than you – in terms of force…
WRITE FOR PEACE
“Only a maniac could want a nuclear war,” say both sides of a conflict that shows no sign of abating. And, whilst the establishments in both the east and the…
How Our Sham Democracy Works
So you think you live in a democracy? Well, you are right, you do. But it’s not quite the democracy you probably think. I just pulled this definition off my…
Xenophobia, Propaganda and the Crowd Mind
Xenos, an ancient Greek word, can be translated as ‘stranger’ or ‘guest’ but, combined with the word ‘phobia’, it means fear of strangers. In Swahili the word mgeni is similar…