This is a letter to the Swindon Advertiser TINA is dead on the ground In criticising Gordon Brown for the…
“Financial weapons of mass destruction” – time for decommissioning
Will Hutton in the Observer last weekend said: “What needs to happen is an assault on the dark heart of…
“Mere gambling transactions”
I sat down the other night to watch a DVD of one of the old Ealing studio comedies, ‘Kind Hearts…
Vlad the impaler returns
Oh my God, the trades unions better get out the garlic, the holy water and a few silver bullets. The…
“Straight from impossible to inevitable”
This is the first of a series of pieces examining the global financial crisis. Socialists are often accused of…
“Whatever it takes”, whatever it means
Writing in today’s Guardian Gordon Brown is the very picture of complacency and self-delusion. After the events of the last…
Keeping your cards close to your chest – or at least somewhere they couldn’t be found
Shenanigans down at the TUC. Thankfully, there are no smoke-filled rooms these days, but what’s this? According to UNISON NEC…
Sixty Years On
This is an article from the current issue of Solidarity, the trade union magazine. It examines the experience of nationalisation, and…
“Workers Uniting” – a top down decision devoid of democracy
There are a number of serious problems with the ‘merger’ between the United Steel Workers of America and UNITE. To…
Prescription charges – time to abolish them
The Citizens Advice Bureau, together with organisations such as the Macmillan cancer charity are calling for the scrapping of prescription…
Martin Wicks 