How forgotten peoples are kept in the margins
People are marginalised by being ignored. Marx was right. We need to challenge the dominant ideology through struggle.
French Lessons
French voters expressed their dissatisfaction by not voting at all. That disillusion has been focussed on immigration, the European Union , but as living standards fall and opportunities for advancement…
Hierarchy Sucks – We Can Do Better
Ever thought why we need bosses?
A Short Conversation About Equality
Morality tells us that where we come from, the colour of our skin, our ethnicity, our culture, our background, our education – these are all irrelevant. It’s what we do…
Is the party over?
Should we be abandoning the party system completely, as it gives us no real power? Dave Middleton @davmidd analyses the situation for socialists in @CriticalMassMag
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…
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…
Ideology in the 21st Century
The concept of ideology in the 21st century is an elusive one. To Francis Fukuyama, the collapse of the Soviet Union meant the “end of history”[1]—and too the end of…
A short conversation about populism
Populists pretend complex problems have simple answers. They like things so simple they become stupid. And they would do, wouldn’t they? ‘Stupid’ is easy to handle.
Alain Krivine: Le Président Est Mort
Alain Krivine, the French socialist who never deviated from his belief that revolution is possible, has died aged 80. His importance can be gauged from the obituaries in all the…