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21st CENTURY ANTHROPOCENTRIC CONCERNS (Part 2)

Indications of the lack of serious Climate and Ecological concerns from various publicised Anticapitalist perspectives. A) “Today the fate of the earth as a home for humanity is in question” (This appeared in a radical left blog) The fate of … Continue reading

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ANOTHER DICTATOR FALLS

Yet another savage dictator has been overthrown, this time in Syria! However, the authoritarian dictatorships of hierarchical mass societies in general will continue as they have since ancient times. The fundamental socio-economic contradiction between ruling classes, their elites, and their … Continue reading

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CONGRATULATIONS! THE SYSTEM HAS WON!

Metaphorically speaking, with only two specially groomed political horses in what amounted to a two horse race, how could the US systems syndicates that have bought and fed both horses, NOT win? What is true of the US political system … Continue reading

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GLOBAL PRODUCTION & DESTRUCTION (Part 1)

In the globalised system of hierarchical mass societies the combined global input of raw materials and the combined global output of production and waste materials – issuing from all countries – are staggering in their volume and frequency. The results … Continue reading

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ONE STEP FORWARD; THREE STEPS BACK?

In the current context of global economic, financial, social and military dystopia it is not surprising that every few months there are some groups in the world trying to make sense of what is happening to the planet it’s people … Continue reading

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CAPITALISM AND FASCISM.

Those who have been led to believe that the western ‘Allied’ countries who fought the Second World War were fighting to end Fascism, must be puzzled by recent events in the Ukraine.  For in the last few months politicians in … Continue reading

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DISPOSSESSION! (Part 1.)

If there is one word that, when its concept is seriously considered, can take us to the root of all systems of exploitation and oppression – that word is ‘dispossession’! And this concept covers the most recent form of large-scale … Continue reading

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GAZA: THE LITMUS TEST – AGAIN!

Once again the brutal onslaught of the hi-tech Goliath against the Palestinian David in Gaza demonstrates the studied inhumanity of the Zionist colonial entity of Israel. As in the case of ‘Operation Cast Lead’ in 2008/9, the most advanced weapons … Continue reading

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MARX AND ‘THE MUCK OF AGES’

This article is another in the series which is aimed a encouraging modern anti-capitalists to engage with the authentic revolutionary-humanist understandings of Karl Marx. Simply accepting the abstractions and assertions of the numerous varieties of so-called ’Marxists‘ at their face … Continue reading

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