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Greens Park The Bus On Their Opposition to NATO

Apr 18, 2023 Adam Colclough

At their Spring conference members of the Green Party of England and Wales voted to no longer oppose the UK being a member of NATO.

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Critical Mass Issue 016

Now is the Summer of Our Discontent

Jun 16, 2022 Editor

Summer will bring no respite for the Tories as discontent turns to protest and strike action reminds us that class struggle is the way forward.

Critical Mass Editorial Issue 015

Welcome to Critical Mass Issue 15

May 19, 2022 Editor

This month’s issue looks at forgotten people. There are people that our rulers would like us to forget, like the miners who fought the Thatcher government, the refugees held in…

Culture Issue 015 News

The Critical Mass Socialist Hour Episode 20

May 19, 2022 Dave Middleton

In Episode 20 of the Socialist Hour Dave, Susie and Mike talk about the Buffalo murders, and Dave interviews Michelle Torez a social activist who has gone from being institutionalised…

Critical Mass Issue 013

Issue 13 PDF

Mar 18, 2022 Dave Middleton

Editorial Ukraine

War in Ukraine – Latest Articles

Feb 28, 2022 Editor

At Critical Mass we oppose the Russian invasion and support calls for a cease fire to the war in Ukraine and the withdrawal of Russian troops so that negotiations can…

Critical Mass Issue 012

Issue 12 PDF

Feb 18, 2022 Dave Middleton

This is the full PDF of Issue 12. You can read it here, or download it to read on your own device. We think this is the best way to…

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Editorial Issue 011

Welcome to Critical Mass Issue 11

Jan 21, 2022 Editor

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…

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News UK Politics

Energy Firms in New Price Scandal

Jun 8, 2023 Critical Mass News Team

A new energy price scandal threatens us all as middlemen take their profits and run while energy giants pass on the costs in higher energy bills for all.

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Who’s afraid of the big, bad Universal Basic Income?

Jun 7, 2023 Critical Mass News Team

Tories are appalled at the idea of UBI but the evidence is not in their favour.

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Asset Managers Own the World

Jun 6, 2023 Critical Mass News Team

Private equity is buying up the public sector and imposing its priorities on society. We need a fight back that challenges capitalism. Labour wont do that.

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Sunday Socialist

Why are gay men the new minority at Pride 2023?

Jun 4, 2023 Ray Barron-Woolford

If pride is a protest, should not the G in gay have the same equality as all the other letters and groups under the rainbow coalition? 

Sunday Socialist

Editorial – June 4th

Jun 4, 2023 Editor

Sadly the left-wing MPs in the Labour Party are not committed to socialism and submit to Starmer's leadership. It is time to refocus.

Sunday Socialist

Edge Notes- June 4th – AI friend or foe?

Jun 4, 2023 Mike Stanton

Artificial Intelligence (AI) threatens us all. But can we use it to our advantage in the struggle for socialism? Readers respond in Notes from the Edge.

Sunday Socialist The Pulse

What you think about: Housing

Jun 4, 2023 Dave Middleton

Critical Mass readers have their say on this month's big issue: housing.

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Lead petitioner Sarah Hazlehurst (with ‘Affordable Green Energy’ placard) and fellow campaigners, outside County Hall, Lewes, 9 May 2023. Photo: Steve Lewis, Courtesy Hastings Online Times
Sunday Socialist

Local attempt to stop council investing in fossil fuels fails

Jun 4, 2023 Gabriel Carlyle

Outrageously, a massive loophole in the UK’s current windfall tax is incentivising fossil fuel companies to pursue new oil and gas fields in the North Sea.

Sunday Socialist

News Digest – June 4th

Jun 4, 2023 Critical Mass News Team

Critical Mass brings you some of the important and often overlooked events of the last fortnight and looks back at Orwell's 1984.

Opinion Sunday Socialist

04/06 Feedback

Jun 4, 2023 Mike Stanton

We write for you and in the feedback column you tell us what you think of what we write in the Sunday Socialist and for Critical Mass.

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