Musings and Rants

Democracy is more than a cross by a name every few years. Democracy is government by the governed - individual self-determination and freed...

It's generally accepted that the decisive point in the degeneration of the Russian Revolution into totalitarianism was the death of Leni...

Have you ever been curious, dumbfounded even, about the ruling class indifference to climate change - something that effects all of us, incl...

I'm writing this a bit late - 2 weeks after the event - but (I'd like to think) the important thing is that it gets written. The fir...

You are woken from a troubled sleep in the small hours of the morning by the sound of your front door being smashed to pieces and heavy-bo...

The march against NATO left the International Village of Resistance at about 10 Saturday morning, starting (I think) with a block from one o...

One of the contributors to the Convention of the Left session on education this afternoon touched - in passing - on a topic I believe reciev...