Category Archives: Critique

Part 2. Elite interest quickly dissolves elite integrity. That sordid reality mentioned at the end of Part 1, is the fact that elite, self-interested commitment to having a share in the available and potential profitable resources of the globe is … Continue reading →

Part 1. Nationalism versus Humanity. For most working people, the dream of a benign nationhood has long been over. It now also looks as if it is over for the people of Palestine. The abstraction ‘nation‘ has always hidden far … Continue reading →

Two events in Ukraine and Palestine have come to dominate the year 2023, in the form of invasions of territory by powerful armed forces. Both have contained numerous instances of what can be defined as crimes against humanity. Both these … Continue reading →

Part 3. Stuck-in-the-box solutions. Unfortunately, a degree of intellectual confusion and even bankruptcy extends to the left in most of its reformist and anti-capitalist shades. The best solution to the Israel Palestine problem that can be suggested by those on … Continue reading →

Part 2. The dehumanisation of humans. There is a long history of hierarchical mass society elites using concepts borrowed from the world of other life forms to dehumanise human opponents so as to avoid accepting the truth of their intention … Continue reading →

Part 1. Recent History. In the last one hundred plus years there have been many crimes against humanity (civilians targeted and collective punishments) perpetrated on an extremely large scale. However, only five instances of them have been conducted on a … Continue reading →

Bolton Socialist Club is one of the oldest surviving independent  socialist clubs in the UK. The club was founded by the working women and men of the Lancashire cotton town of Bolton in the 19th century.  It has survived into … Continue reading →

Genocide is the intentional destruction of a people in whole or in part. In 1948, the United Nations Genocide Convention defined genocide as being the intentional destruction of a people by means of five “acts committed with intent to destroy, … Continue reading →

In this series of articles (and some others on this blog) it has been established that ancient as well as modern, hierarchical mass societies with their divisions into socio-economic classes and into occupational specialisms, introduce into those who live within … Continue reading →

Only those who have lost their general humanity can celebrate the deaths of any member of our species by the hands or orders of other members of our species. This is why many ordinary working people will not be joining … Continue reading →