Author Archives: stutteringsteps

(AND WHAT DO THEY WANT?) Over the past month it has become popular to view our present capitalist society in terms of two opposed groups designated simply by percentages. The current popular analysis holds that it is a 1% of … Continue reading →

As the current economic and political crisis lurches on, democratic election to government has now been abandoned by a section of the European financial elite. They apparently do not trust the electorate or elected representatives to do what they wish … Continue reading →

AND: BURNING CARS IS NOT THE SOLUTION. Currencies. As the debt crisis unfolds and financial markets continue to implode, ‘elite’ actors in politics and finance, along with their supporters in the media, are increasingly anxious to point the finger of … Continue reading →

CAPITALIST CRISIS. After many years of being written off as outdated – by those who didn’t know any better – the investigation of the capitalist mode of production by Karl Marx, once again proves its undoubted merit. I shall argue … Continue reading →

During 2005 in Britain, a group of influential writers published a book entitled ‘Free Expression is No Offence’. It was published by PEN, an organisation which declared it;; ‘champions freedom of expression everywhere and the right of writers, artists and … Continue reading →

THE WANDERING WHO? By Gilad Atzmon. This book is sub-titled ‘A study of Jewish identity politics’, and this is exactly what methodically unfolds throughout the book. With refreshing honesty, Gilad Atzmon, traces his own progress, from birth in a Zionist … Continue reading →

(From rogue state to client state?) The confusing and fluidly changing situation in Libya has been further distorted by the differing perspectives of the various news media.  However, what has been common to most media outlets has been posing of … Continue reading →

The ‘Big Society’, as promoted by Cameron, his Tory handlers and Lib-dem followers, was at first rather slow to get off the ground, but now it is gathering pace, if not in the form some people had naively hoped. In … Continue reading →

The recent riots have struck fear into the very heart of middle England. The socio-economic system they support is in economic and financial melt-down and as they further tear up the post 2nd world war Beveridge social contract, the lower … Continue reading →