2020-
2020
- Editorial: Brexit done, back to capitalism as usual
- Pathfinders: Fake news? Go and boil your bread
- Letters
- Football TV rights: Amazon joins the game
- Cooking the Books I: The Labour Party Marxist? Pull the other one!
- Wood For the Trees: History as Drama
- Material World: The Vote in Hong Kong
- The Election: Analysis
- Nativism: Covert Racism
- Fascism: Avoiding Anachronism
- Las Vegas: Everyone’s a Loser
- Disability: Models of Meaning
- Zerosum: Pies and Lies
- Cooking the Books II: The Lib Dem vision for capitalism
- Proper Gander – All I Can Think About Is The Housing
- Book Reviews – The New Enclosure: the Appropriation of Public Land In Neoliberal Britain / The Mythology of Business
- Liverpool Marxist Book Fair
- 50 Years Ago: The Socialist Party and the Common Market
- Party Election Results
- Rear View
- Free Lunch
- Green capitalism – a contradiction in terms
- Pathfinders – Celebs wanted, dead or alive
- The Pensions Struggle: The Financial Iceberg
- Open Letter to David Attenborough
- Cooking the Books I: Not for the squeamish
- Wood For the Trees: Life without socialism
- Material World: Nigeria: need poverty exist
- Green ‘New Deal’: Naomi’s Fantasy
- Green Capitalism: Ideology for Oxymorons
- Jeremy Corbyn: Last Stand of the Left
- Money: Icon of Slavery
- Religion: New Opiates
- Cooking the Books II: Boris’s Gift Nag
- Proper Gander – YouTube And you
- Even if He Wasn’t an Idiot
- Book Reviews – The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company / Plunder of the Commons: a Manifesto for Sharing Public Wealth
- Bad Marx – See Me!
- 50 Years Ago: Slaughter in Vietnam
- Obituary: Jim Ryder
- Meetings
- Rear View
- Free Lunch
- Editorial: Towards a Disunited Kingdom
- Pathfinders: Stories from the city
- Letters: Islands of socialism?
- Cooking the Books I: Same difference
- Wood For the Trees: The Art of Cynicism
- Material World: Africa’s food potential
- The Irish Election: Sinn Fein Resurgence
- Learning machines: Algorithmic Dreams
- The LTV: A Bad Criticism of Marx’s Labour Theory of Value
- Resource War: Oil, Gas and Aphrodite
- Scottish Independence : Tartan Delusions
- A letter to Greta
- Cooking the Books II: Capitalism is irredeemable
- Proper Gander: All’s Whale That Ends Well?
- Book Reviews – Hostile Environment: How Immigrants Became Scapegoats / A World Without Work. Technology, Automation and How We Should Respond / Marx in Soho – A Play on History
- 50 Years Ago: The mad world of capitalism
- Meetings
- Rear View
- Free Lunch
- Editorial: Capitalism struggles to cope
- Pathfinders: Under Siege
- The trade in footballers
- Coronavirus: The Italian experience
- Market Panic : Capitalist Hysteria
- Cooking the Books I: Capitalism catches a cold
- Wood for the Trees: A ‘Man of his Time’
- Material World: Proxy warring in Syria
- Arbroath 1320-1820: A History of Them and US
- Irish Capitalism: Who Cares Who Runs it
- Inequality: Labour’s Straw Men
- Socialism, Communism, Association—A rose by another name
- Transport : Future Travel
- Plastic: Container Crisis
- Cooking the Books II: Iron asteroids and golden meteorites
- Proper Gander – The detail which moves you is the same detail that lets you know it’s true
- Book Reviews – Unspeakable. John Bercow / No Home For You Here: a Memoir of Class and Culture
- Atheism: Transcending superstition
- 50 Years Ago: French “Communists” support wages system
- Letter: A good question
- Rear View
- Free Lunch
- Editorial: Locked down under capitalism
- Pathfinders: Denialists and Doomsayers
- Society: Abstraction or Reality
- Cooking the Books I: Social distancing and the wages system
- Wood for the Trees: Peer Review
- Material World: Meanwhile in East Africa . . .
- The Virus: Our Perspective – Covid and Class
- The Virus Media Perspective: Televisual Tripe
- Labour Leader: Faux Radicalism
- UBI: Redistributing Poverty
- 100 Years Ago: What We Said Then
- Cooking the Books II: System change not policy change
- Proper Gander: TV and the Virus
- Book Reviews – A Promethean Vision: The Formation of Karl Marx’s Worldview / Winter at the Bookshop / My Search for Revolution & How We Brought Down An Abusive Leader / Internationalism or Extinction
- 50 Years Ago: Canada to grow no wheat in 1970
- Party News – Discord in the Ranks
- Rear View
- Free Lunch
- Editorial: Socialism hasn’t failed – it’s never been tried
- Pathfinders: Locked up in lockdown
- One world or many states?
- Cooking the Books I: Will capitalism collapse?
- Wood For the Trees: Responsibility
- Material World: Guns before healthcare
- What is Economics?
- Who gets the surplus we produce?
- Economics: the Marginalist Fallacy
- Lesser evil or lose-lose situation?
- End of an Epoch?
- Cooking the Books II: Negative prices: how come?
- Party News – Discord in the Ranks
- Proper Gander: At The Movies
- Book Reviews – What is Post-Modern Conservatism? Essays on Our Hugely Tremendous Times / Sitopia. How Food Can Save the World
- 50 Years Ago: What about Vietnam?
- Meetings
- Rear View
- Free Lunch
- Editorial: Working class lives matter
- Pathfinders: Virus pandemonium
- Cooking the Books I: UBI – Useless Baseless Initiative
- Amazon: Fiercely Resisting
- Letters
- Material World: The Military Police
- Covid-19 and the Money Mine
- ‘When the looting starts, the shooting starts’
- Race or Class?
- Summer School
- Empire, Free Trade and Brexit
- The Case for Socialism
- Cooking the Books II: Negative interest rates
- Party News – Discord in the Ranks
- Proper Gander: Luxury Legoland
- Book Reviews – I Want To Believe: Posadism, UFOs and apocalypse communism / You Say You Want a Revolution. Radical Idealism and its Tragic Consequences / Social Class in Europe: New Inequalities in the Old World
- 50 Years Ago: Debate with “International Socialism Group”
- Obituary: Fred Hallows
- Meetings
- Rear View
- Free Lunch by RIGG: Cartoon
- Editorial: Why capitalism can’t work for us
- Pathfinders: Dust to Dust
- If not now, then when?
- Cooking the Books I: Big Deal!
- Think about socialism
- Letters: “Reform of capitalism?” – Overpopulation?
- Material World: War drums in the China Sea
- What happens when there is no housing market?
- Imperialism and the ‘Labour Aristocracy’
- The Lessons of Charlottesville
- Summer School
- Normal Wisdom
- Cooking the Books II: Consumption – not the driver
- Party News – Discord in the Ranks
- Proper Gander: Turning The Page
- Book Reviews – The Castle of Truth and Other Revolutionary Tales / Food, Health and Capitalism. Covid-19 and Beyond / Marx 200. The Significance of Marxism in the 21st Century
- 50 Years Ago: Human Needs and World Resources
- Obituary: Gordon Docherty
- Meetings
- Rear View
- Free Lunch
- Editorial: How real is democracy today?
- Pathfinders: Two fingers to the virus and Big Bang in Beirut
- ‘Made in Leicester’
- A is for Alpha
- Cooking the Books: What is poverty?
- Selfishness
- Material World: Vaccine development: another market failure
- Capitalism and Democracy : Part 1
- What do protests signify and why so many?
- Imperialism Part 2: Super-profits and the labour aristocracy
- Crime and Capital
- Population growth: women choose
- Proper Gander – I’ve got nothing. I ain’t got no-one. But I’ve got the shops
- Book Reviews – A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: a Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet / The Far Right Today / Compendium of Karl Marx’s Capital / Mapping the English Left Through Film
- 50 Years Ago: Labour Party hypocrites & Summer School Report
- Meetings
- Rear View
- Editorial: Beyond the false choice
- Pathfinders: Capitalism by gaslight
- US elections: The lesser-evil fallacy
- Cooking the Books: Do monkeys produce surplus value?
- Cooking the Books: Socialism in one enterprise?
- Letters
- Socialism is not a Dream. It can be Reality. It’s up to You…
- Material World: Hair is big money
- Enough food for all
- US elections: capitalism or capitalism?
- Capitalism: incompatible with democracy
- Anti-imperialism is not anti-capitalism
- Conflicts in Hong Kong
- Proper Gander: Radio Ga-Ga
- Book Reviews – Pandemic Capitalism. From Broken Systems to Basic Incomes / What’s Wrong With Work? / The Science and Passion of Communism. Selected Writings of Amadeo Bordiga
- 50 Years Ago: Black Power
- Meetings
- Rear View
- Editorial: Science, Politics and Profits
- Pathfinders: Burning rain
- Socialism or Nationalism?
- Quote: John Lame Deer
- Letters: Chomsky replies
- Cooking the Books I: The really big slump
- Class Control
- Material World: ‘Too old to work, too young to die’
- Engels as Utopian Socialist
- Engels’s Political Testament
- Engels, pioneer socialist
- Trump and lying as a tactic
- Peace? In Capitalism?
- Cooking the Books II: The National Debt: whose debt?
- Proper Gander: Rubber Reboot
- Book Reviews – Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present / Clear Bright Future: a Radical Defence of the Human Being / Love and Labour. (Red Button Years – Volume 1)
- 50 years Ago: Cathy – no home to go to
- Meetings
- Rear View
- Editorial – Back to capitalist normality
- Pathfinders – Virus wars: new hope and phantom menace
- Material World: Exercise in democracy? Not exactly
- Merry Christmas?
- Cooking the Books 1 – Why capitalists are ‘greedy’
- Happiness, Happiness?
- Covid and capitalism’s unnecessary dilemma
- US politics: what to expect from Biden and Harris
- A Lesson from Trump
- Labour’s Internal Conflicts
- 50 Years in the Party
- Cooking the Books 2 – Capitalism with Chinese characteristics
- Free Meals
- Proper Gander – Control and coercion
- Book reviews – The End of the Megamachine. A Brief History Of A Failing Civilization / Left Out. The inside story of Labour under Corbyn / For the People: Left Populism in Spain and the US
- Obituary: Fred Allen
- 50 Years Ago
- Capitalism vs the Environment
- Meetings
- Rear View
2021
- Editorial – Capitalist chaos
- Pathfinders – Magic bullets
- Cooking the Books – Profiting from the pandemic
- The Pace of Change
- Material World – Blame the old for being alive
- The Myths of Nationalism
- Copyrights expire, humanity gains
- Candles In The Wind
- Development to what?
- What is going on in Belarus?
- Proper Gander – Cutting-Edge Drama
- Book reviews – Who Owns England? How We Lost Our Land and How to Take It Back / The London Dream / Critical Lives: Rosa Luxemburg
- 50 years ago
- Poland’s Pro-Choice Protests
- Rear View
- Editorial – Chaos on the Capitol
- Pathfinders – Gene genies
- Turkish nationalists?
- Cooking the Books 1 – The paradox of cash
- Gnostic Marxist
- Material World – Bandh against the ‘black laws’
- Dealing with the deal
- Capitalism and Automation: Progress Perverted
- Unequal exchange: who benefits?
- How I became a socialist
- Cooking the Books 2 – All state activists now?
- Proper Gander – Fame And fortune
- Book Reviews – Naomi Klein: On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal / David Harvey: The Anti-Capitalist Chronicles / Angrynomics
- 50 Years Ago
- Meetings
- Rear View
- Editorial – Resistance is not enough
- Pathfinders – Speaking of tongues
- Letter
- Cooking the Books 1 – Is capitalism based on unsustainable debt?
- Global Socialism
- Material World – Crackdown or Backdown ?
- Anti-Putin Protests
- Hexham’s lesson for today
- Who benefits from lower ‘Third World’ wages?
- Externalities and British Chicken
- Obituary: Suhuyini Nbang-Ba
- Cooking the Books 2 – Capitalism cannot be reset
- Proper Gander – An emotional history
- Book Reviews – Despised. Why the Modern Left Loathes the Working Class / Why America Needs Socialism / The deficit myth: modern monetary theory and how to build a better economy
- 50 Years Ago
- Meetings
- Rear View
- Editorial – A woman’s lot
- Pathfinders – The Price of Everything
- Letter – Was Trump a fascist?
- Cooking the Books 1 – Profit-sharing Aussie-style
- Election Communications
- Material World – The ‘Polar Silk Road’
- Warring Windsors
- It could never happen here
- Socialism, Free Speech and ‘Cancel Culture’
- Biodiversity loss and the capitalist economy
- Questioning Nationality
- Giants Unslain
- Cooking the Books 2 – Tories increase tax on profits
- Proper Gander – Keep calm and carry on with the clichés
- Book Reviews – An Inheritance for Our Times. Principles and Politics of Democratic Socialism / The Blind Watchmaker. Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design / Share the Wealth: How to End Rentier Capitalism
- 50 Years Ago
- Obituary
- Meetings
- Rear View
- Editorial – Humans being human
- Pathfinders – Whales, scales and fishy tales
- League Intrigue
- Cooking the Books 1 – Carney rethinks capitalism
- Gig Economy – The right to be a wage slave
- Material World – Gender oppression in India
- The Green New Deal
- Educating our sons
- Human Nature: What Is It?
- Paris Commune 1871
- Would you Adam and Eve it?
- Cooking the Books 2 – Who invented money?
- Air Pressure
- Proper Gander – She’s part of those statistics now
- Book Reviews – Snakes and Ladders. The Great British Social Mobility Myth / A New Introduction to Karl Marx: New Materialism, Critique of Political Economy, and the Concept of Metabolism / Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal: the Political Economy of Saving the Planet
- 50 Years Ago
- Obituary
- Meetings
- Rear View
- Editorial – The Middle East – a capitalist flashpoint
- Pathfinders – Climate change – somebody else’s problem?
- Letters
- Cooking the Books 1 – What the market does
- Apartness in Israel
- Material World – Climate Refugees
- What’s left of Labour?
- Capitalism, socialism and work
- Cultures, multi and otherwise
- The daily class struggle
- The soul of Oscar Wilde
- Cooking the Books 2 – Lights Out
- Proper Gander – Track and trace
- Book reviews – The BBC: Myth of a Public Service / Reality Squared: On Reality TV and Left Politics / Unlearning Marx: Why the Soviet failure was a triumph for Marx
- 50 Years Ago
- Party news
- Meetings
- Rear View
- Editorial: Neither London nor Dublin but World Socialism
- Pathfinders: Space Race 2.0
- Letter
- Cooking the Books 1 – Is inflation going to increase?
- We can feed the world
- Material World – Hamas high dramas
- How do you like your News?
- A hundred years of Northern Ireland
- A Gender Item
- Carrying Capacity Carry-ons
- Book Reviews – Build Bridges Not Walls. A Journey To A World Without Borders / The Sacking of Fallujah: A People’s History / Unfree Speech: the Threat to Global Democracy and Why We Must Act, Now
- Cooking the Books 2 – The Tories and free trade
- Proper Gander – Another Problematic ‘Class System’
- Meetings
- 50 Years Ago
- Rear View
- Editorial – Why the Labour Party is useless
- Pathfinders – Eye to eye
- Letter
- Cooking the Books 1 – Something for nothing
- Material World – Stolen children
- Where is Labour going?
- George Galloway: would-be Populist Leader
- Countdown to COP26 – Can reforms save the environment?
- What is Marxism?
- Capitalism ‘bad’, socialism ‘good’
- The Beef Chain
- Cooking the Books 2 – Divvying up?
- Proper Gander – Brexit and exports
- Book Reviews – Wageless Life. A Manifesto for a Future beyond Capitalism / How to Argue With a Racist: History, Science, Race and Reality / The Council Communist Reader
- 50 Years Ago
- Obituary – Robert Vallar
- Meetings
- Rear View
- Editorial – Divide and rule
- Pathfinders – Say it loud
- UBI: Red herring or wild goose chase?
- Cooking the Books 1 – QE didn’t work
- Key work, key workers and shorter hours
- Material World – Afghanistan: another empire fails
- Countdown to COP – Part Two – Do environmentalists know what capitalism is?
- Sci-Fi, utopias and socialism
- Parasites
- Letters – Principles of the future communist society
- Cooking the Books 2 – Accumulate, accumulate!
- Proper Gander – Between the lines
- Book Reviews – Superstition. A Very Short Introduction / Clipped Coins, Abused Words, and Civil Government / The Employees: a Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
- 50 Years Ago – China and America
- School Report
- Meetings
- Rear View
- Editorial – The battle for ‘We’
- Pathfinders – Fighting fire with fireproofing
- Letter – What about the monarchy?
- Feeding frenzies in the South China Sea
- Cooking the Books 1 – Labour power shortage
- Taxing the Rich
- Material World – The Tigray tragedy
- Countdown to COP – Part Three – Time is not on our side
- Have the Tories gone socialist?
- Identity and the politics of scarcity
- After the Revolution: Managing the Environment
- What is the Kindness Test?
- Cooking the Books 2 – The limits to tax and spend
- Liberation theology
- Proper Gander – Remoulding The Activist
- Book Reviews – Socialism for Soloists / The Psychology of Populism. The Tribal Challenge to Liberal Democracy / The Undocumented Americans
- 50 Years Ago – The death of Krushchev
- Obituary: Tim Hart
- Meetings
- Rear View
- Editorial – Fiddling while the planet warms
- Pathfinders – Let’s start the real debate about climate change
- Letter – What happens when there is a socialist majority?
- Cooking the Books 1 – Greed or Necessity?
- Bird’s Eye View
- Material World – Coal Nationalism versus the Climate
- Nature, production and system change
- To Grow or Not to Grow?
- What Kind of System Change?
- Sharing, But Not Alike
- The Passing Labour Show
- Can we panic now, Captain Mainwaring?
- Shining Path – Death (in prison) of a guerrilla
- Cooking the Books 2 – Capitalism: No Paper Tiger
- Proper Gander – Police And Abuse
- Book Reviews – The Politics of Division. An Engagement with Identity Politics / Victor Grayson. In Search of Britain’s Lost Revolutionary / ‘I Know Who Caused COVID-19’: Pandemics and Xenophobia
- 50 Years Ago – Now they say there’s too much electricity
- Meetings
- Green New Deal?
- Lifestyle changes?
- Editorial – the trade talks in Glasgow
- Pathfinders – The Theory of Everything
- Letter – What are the means of production?
- Cooking the Books 1 – Must prices rise?
- Letter from the ACG
- Material World – Economic meltdown in Lebanon
- Stamping Out Capitalism
- Tang Ping, the new China virus?
- A Diverse World
- Why do some Christians oppose vaccination?
- Party News – Glasgow COP26
- Cooking the Books 2 – ‘Sustainable investment’
- Proper Gander – Capturing The Christmas Spirit
- Book Reviews – Everything You Really Need To Know About Politics: My Life As An MP / The Communist Road to Capitalism. How Unrest and Containment Have Pushed China’s (R)evolution since 1949 /
- Theatre Review – The Ruff Tuff Cream Puff Estate Agency
- 50 Years Ago
- Snippets
- Meetings
- Rear View
2022
- Editorial – Twenty twenty-two
- Pathfinders – Final Frontiers
- Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) – What if?
- Cooking the Books 1 – Marx and the City
- Bird’s Eye View
- Material World – a world without war
- Refugees: No safe place
- Reading Capital as Crisis Theory: Part 1
- Land Grabs, Climate Change and Profits
- Sewage: Profit first, health second
- It’s a rich man’s world
- Cooking the Books 2 – How many working classes are there?
- Proper Gander – Charged Up
- Book Reviews – No Bosses. A New Economy for A Better World / Lost in Work: Escaping Capitalism / The Sutherland Clearances: The Highland Clearances, Volume Three
- 50 Years Ago – Pakistani Punch-Up
- Meetings
- Life and Times
- Editorial – Sabre-rattling over Ukraine
- Pathfinders – Is capitalism making us lose our marbles?
- Colston verdict – the big picture
- Cooking the Books 1 – Unfair Shares
- Bird’s Eye View
- Was Money Abolished in Cambodia?
- Uprising in Kazakhstan
- Reading Capital as Crisis Theory: Part 2
- The Bogey of Overpopulation
- Death of a Sociobiologist
- Consumerism and Literature – The Epoch That Ate the World
- Cooking the Books 2 – The Return of Tariff Reform
- Proper Gander – The Shape Of Things To Comet
- Book Reviews – Always Red / Burning the Books: a History of Knowledge Under Attack / Sylvia Pankhurst: A Suffragette in America
- 50 Years Ago – Student Unions
- Meetings
- Life and Times – The Charity Shop Manager
- Editorial – The cost of living crisis
- Pathfinders – You are now in Capitalist Economic Time
- Letters
- Cooking the Books Levelling Up / Ask for a pay rise
- Bird’s Eye View
- Sri Lanka: capitalism unable to provide economic security
- The almost-war in Ukraine
- Hunter-gatherers: Who are they? What do they tell us?
- Abolish the Wages System and …
- What’s in a word?
- Inequality Kills
- The rules of capitalism
- Proper Gander – Where the wealth went
- Book Reviews – The Pound and the Fury / The British Left and Ireland / Ripe for Revolution: Building Socialism in the Third World
- 50 Years Ago – The Thirteen Derry Dead
- Meetings
- Life and Times – The Beer Festival
- War in Ukraine
- Editorial – Whatever happened to the Peace Dividend?
- Pathfinders – Tales from the Crypto
- May Council Election Statements
- Cooking the Books 1 – Ill-gotten gains
- Bird’s Eye View
- Material World – COP26 cop-out
- Voices of the Russian and Ukrainian Left
- Ukraine: Good Against Evil . . . Or More Complicated Than That?
- Workers have no country
- The Labour Party, the flag and the big stick
- Kharkov under bombardment
- Cooking the Books 2 – A price worth paying?
- Proper Gander – The Media as Intermediary
- Book Reviews – The Truth about Trotsky / Trump and Berlusconi
- Obituary – Jim Fleming
- 50 Years Ago – Raising of the School Leaving Age
- April 2022 Events
- Life and Times – Will We Always Have Food Banks?
- Editorial – Discontented workers choose the devil they know
- Pathfinders – Original Sin
- Letter – Are we anti Latin American?
- Cooking the Books 1 – Russian gold
- Bird’s Eye View
- Material World – One World, One People
- A Modern Money Tree?
- British fascists online
- David Graeber’s False Dawn
- Mutual Aid
- Cooking the Books 2 – Something (a lot) for Nothing
- Proper Gander – Four Sale
- Book Reviews – Hare & Woods / Martov / Graeber & Wengrow
- 50 Years Ago – Conference Report
- Obituary – Keith Powell
- May 2022 Events
- Life and Times – the strike
- Editorial – Queen Capital’s jubilee
- Pathfinders – AI: the last invention we ever need to make…
- Ukraine: whose side are we on?
- Cooking the Books – Is Russia imperialist?
- Material World – Africa: from bread-lines to bread-basket?
- Bird’s Eye View – Memory hole / Doublethink / Big Brother
- Saving what’s Left: Mélenchon bucks the trend?
- Artificial Intelligence
- AI – It’s your move
- The economics of AI
- Stuart Russell’s 2021 Reith Lectures on ‘Living with Artificial Intelligence’
- Cooking the Books – Which way to AI?
- The long and the short of it
- Proper Gander – getting over the horizon
- Book reviews: Farage / Racism and hostility / Unlearning Marx
- 50 Years Ago – May News Review: At Home
- Party News: Local Election result
- Obituary: Matt Culbert
- June 2022 Meetings
- Life and Times – the climate campaigner
- Editorial: Better get rid of capitalism
- Pathfinders: Ghostly beings in the machine
- Letter: Puzzled about Mélenchon
- Cooking the Books 1 – Mutual Assured Downturn
- Bird’s Eye View – CND / Wars
- Material World – Signs of things to come
- Jubilee Junket
- What has the monarchy done for us?
- Steven Pinker, the modern Pangloss
- Marxism and Leninism in Myanmar
- Ethical shopping / Vampires / Freedom
- Q&A: The cost of living crisis
- Cooking the Books 2 – No such thing as free shorter hours
- Proper Gander – A Bite From The Apple
- Book reviews – Harrington / Starmer / Afropean + Soft Cell review
- 50 Years Ago – Is Mankind Doomed?
- July 2022 meetings
- Life and Times – The legal drama
- Editorial – politicians fiddling with climate change
- Pathfinders – If you really want peace…
- Cooking the Books 1. Structural imbalance 2. Arms economy
- Bird’s Eye View – kettles, biscuits and picnics
- Material World: Sri Lanka – the limits of workers’ forbearance
- The passing political show – vacancy for a caretaker
- Managerial Politics
- The Food Crisis
- Putin, power and women
- A very British hit job
- Is it really okay not to be okay?
- Links in the chains
- Proper Gander – Hack To The Future
- Book reviews – Printing more money / Abolishing borders / 10k year rise of world economy
- 50 YA – RD Laing / Thoughts on climate change
- August 2022 Meetings
- Life and Times – two eco-reformists
- Editorial – the class war and why there is one
- Pathfinders – Growing up with Jordan Peterson
- AUKUS-Pocus
- Cooking the Books 1 – Fairy-tale economics
- Bird’s Eye View – Shelley, atheism and anarchy
- Material World – A forlorn and forgotten nation
- Nationalism: deadly enemy of socialism
- Getting the betrayal in first
- Starmer’s plan for British capitalism
- Reformism prolongs capitalism
- …But what about the wage-price spiral?
- Cooking the Books 2 – Can banks create wealth?
- Proper Gander – A Problem Not Registering
- Book reviews – After Corbyn / Chumocracy / Ultrasocial
- 50 Years Ago – The five jailed dockers
- Obituary – Oliver Bond
- September 2022 Meetings
- Life and Times – Too many people?
- Editorial – neither monarchy nor republic but socialism
- Pathfinders: Socialism – read instructions carefully
- Royalty’s role from feudalism to capitalism
- Cooking the Books 1 – A fair price for power?
- Bird’s Eye View – Wilde, Orwell, Douglass and Banks
- Material World: Robbery on the high seas?
- Post-capitalism: what will it look like?
- Is a free-access society possible?
- Is democracy evil?
- Is socialism counter-intuitive?
- Cooking the Books 2: Energy wars / FALC
- Proper Gander – Profits and power
- Book reviews: Hope & Fear / End of capitalism / War on Woke
- 50 Years Ago: The ABC of inflation / Earth notes / For the record
- October 2022 Meetings
- Life and Times – Food Banks Again
- Editorial – That’s not all, folks!
- Pathfinders – Ancient wisdom
- Selfish by nature / Stewardship
- Cooking the Books 1 – ‘Ignorant and mistaken’
- Bird’s Eye View: Democratic, Stateless, Commonwealth
- Material World – A pox on capitalism
- According to Need
- Urban Mining – E-Waste Recycling
- Spycatchers
- Manufacturing Reagan
- Myanmar and the myth of ‘the national progressive bourgeoisie’
- Cooking the Books 2 – Profits, profits, and profits
- The Amazon revisited
- Proper Gander – Hard Labour
- Book reviews: Schmelzer, Vetter and Vansintjan / Working Class History / Vijay Prashad
- Video Review – Beyond Money
- 50 Years Ago: The Presidential Election – “As Long As It’s Black”
- November 2022 Meetings
- Life and Times – Brighter Times?
- Editorial – We can put a stop to their games
- Pathfinders – The Baby Bust
- Letters – Young / Graham
- Cooking the Books 1 – Rating the Bank Rate
- Bird’s Eye View – Going Nowhere / Tatchell / Shoot to Kill
- Material World – Pillaged and plundered for green capitalism
- Just stop being manipulative
- GB News and Gary’s Economics
- A note to a friend
- Can there be ‘non-reformist’ reforms?
- Transgender issues and capitalism
- Socialists and the Left
- Cooking the Books 2 – Who creates wealth?
- Proper Gander – Mindsets And Misinterpretations
- Book reviews – Kaye / Pack / Burgis
- 50 Years Ago – Vietnam / Postal Worker
- December 2022 Meetings
- Life and Times – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
2023
- Editorial – sweep away capitalism
- Pathfinders – More Tales from the Crypto
- Dear Editors
- Cooking the Books 1 – profit restraint
- Bird’s Eye View – Quayle, Reagan, Carlin, Debs, Sade, Bukowski
- Material World – the pimps of war
- How political power works: what we can learn from the fall of Truss
- A world without money
- Shamima Begum, the Demon Bride
- Striking
- Socialist morality and war
- Cooking the Books 2 – Wage-price spiral / Lethal delusion
- Proper Gander – the richest and poorest
- Book Reviews: Bright Green Lies / Capitalism / Value of a Whale
- 50 Years Ago / World Cup of Shame
- January 2023 Meetings
- Life and Times – What An Example!
- Editorial: Doom and gloom? Think again
- Pathfinders – Sky high and ocean deep
- Enough is enough is not enough
- Cooking the Books 1 – Taking back what control?
- Bird’s Eye View – Many a true word is spoken in jest
- Material World – Too old to work, too young to die
- The Admiral’s speech
- The best of times, the worst of times
- Are we heading for mass starvation?
- Extinction? Rebellion?
- Something’s lurking around the corner – but it isn’t a world war
- Cooking the Books 2 – Per capita
- Proper Gander – Dukes And Rebukes
- Book reviews – Thunberg / Shapiro / Shanahan & Kurti
- 50 Years Ago – Northern Ireland: unite for socialism!
- Obituary: Ivan Corry
- February 2023 events
- Life and Times – What a contrast!
- Editorial – the alternative pro-profit government in waiting
- Pathfinders – Shut up and take the pill
- Dear Editors…
- Cooking the Books 1 – The moral mess
- Bird’s Eye View – Marxism without myth
- Material World – Disasters, natural and unnatural
- A winter of discontent
- Revolving corruption
- A plan to save the future
- The ballot strike in Tunisia
- Communism and socialism: is there a difference?
- Farming under capitalism
- Nations and borders
- Cooking the Books 2 – Supermarkets and sub-profits
- Proper Gander – Exploring Englishness
- Book reviews: Camfield / Lafargue / Sanghera / Vettese
- 50 Years Ago – Crisis and revolution / Just Stop Capitalism
- March 2023 events
- Life and Times – being homeless
- Editorial – Ending the Profit System
- Pathfinders: Fancy a chat, GPT?
- The Chartist Legacy . . . 175 Years On
- Cooking the Books 1 – Collapse of a banking theory
- Bird’s Eye View – Hedges, Dawkins, Allen
- Material World – Live to work or work to live?
- Can we adapt to climate change?
- Full English
- How will capitalism end?
- An opinion of fact
- The Old Lie
- Post-capitalist farming
- Cooking the Books 2 – Budget for business as usual
- Proper Gander – Exploitation at work
- Book reviews – Chibber, Kelly, Isitt/Malhotra
- 50 Years Ago – Looking back on Lyndon Johnson
- April 2023 Events
- Life and Times – R-E-A-L L-O-V-E
- Editorial – Coronation chickens
- Pathfinders – Ad Astra
- Get rid of politicians? / Folkestone manifesto
- Cooking the Books 1 – ‘Woke capitalism’: a contradiction?
- Bird’s Eye View – Howling lapdogs and the wrong tree
- Material World – Travesty on the high seas
- What concerns you? / Human nature
- Communism as a practical alternative
- Town and country
- Story time: mystery and meaning
- What do you think?
- Cooking the Books 2 – What the market will bear
- Proper Gander – Flat broke
- Book reviews – Biehl, Darlington, Neima
- 50 Years Ago: Black liberation – George Jackson and political violence
- May 2023 events
- Life and Times – Winners and losers
- Editorial – Labour, Tory, same old story
- Pathfinders – They shoot grouse, don’t they?
- Wild Isles
- Cooking the Books 1 – Greedflation?
- Bird’s Eye View – minimum wage, philanthropists, Helen Keller
- Material World – Food, another banking failure
- Turkey’s ambivalent elections
- Adam Smith versus the Adam Smith Institute
- Adam Smith on the origin of profits
- The dark religion of bourgeois economics
- Swearing
- Human history as economic growth
- Cooking the Books 2 – Are nurses exploited? / Letter
- Proper Gander – send in the crowns
- Book reviews – Dawson, English, Michaels/Reed
- 50 Years Ago – Eysenck at the LSE / Fitton for purpose
- Obituaries – John Lee, Malcolm MacKay
- June 2023 Events
- Life and Times – stray cats and gundog rescue
- Editorial – Politicians all serve the one percent
- Pathfinders – Patent nonsense
- Letter – A pretty kettle of fish
- Halo Halo! – Karma and the Bible
- Cooking the Books 1 – Another extinction rebellion?
- Bird’s Eye View – No safety at work, China’s billionaires
- Material World – Why biodiversity matters
- Do It Yourself politics
- Interview with Drew Pendergrass
- Political instinct
- The times they need a-changin’
- Cooking the Books 2 – Was Marx really a reformist?
- Proper Gander – Splashing out on drip
- Book reviews – Anderson&Ludenhoff, Rayson, Knott
- 50 Years Ago – What Socialism Means, Obituaries – Shenfield, Lovatt
- July 2023 Events
- Life and Times – Behind the crime
- Editorial – All fiscal conservatives now
- Pathfinders – Bread and butter issues
- Letters – Moysan, Graham, Morris
- Cooking the Books 1 – The papers learn how banks work
- Halo Halo / Tiny Tips
- Material World – No Borders!
- The passing politicians’ show – Uxbridge and Ulez
- The passing politicians’ show – Somerset and Frome: A socialist elector writes
- NHS – 75 years of socialism?
- Toothache? Pay private fees or do it yourself
- Let’s abolish food banks
- Starmer versus the logic of the market
- ‘Imagine’ – Sugar-coated anti-capitalism?
- What is ‘scientific’ socialism?
- Cooking the Books 2 – What about producer prices?
- Proper Gander – The state of North Korea
- Book reviews – Crossly & Miles, Davies, Huggon
- 50 Years Ago – Floating to nowhere – the currency chaos
- August 2023 Events
- Life and Times – Romance and Reality
- Editorial – Neither Starmer nor Old Labour
- Pathfinders – Russian roulette
- Letter – Labour-time ‘money’?
- Cooking the Books 1 – Digital pound, what’s that?
- Halo Halo
- Tiny tips
- Material World – Emptying the ocean with a teaspoon
- Migration – what is the problem?
- The labour army wants YOU!
- Chile during and after Salvador Allende
- The singularity of a socialist revolution
- Goo
- Why I’m a socialist
- Before Marx: David Ricardo
- Cooking the Books 2 – Reformism sucks
- Proper Gander – Super marketing
- Book reviews – Hayes et al, McRae, Marshall, Levi
- 50 Years Ago – Marx in his time
- Action Replay – Gaming the system
- September 2023 events
- Life and Times – Small change in the small claims
- Editorial – World poverty, boats and borders
- Pathfinders – Vanity projects
- Letter – Food rescue
- Cooking the Books 1 – AI in perspective
- Halo, Halo & Tiny Tips
- Material World – The world of commodity trading
- The economic is impersonal
- The rise of fictitious capital
- The royal ceiling
- Working together
- Which Socialist Party are you?
- Mad Monx
- Best regards, but miles apart
- Cooking the Books 2 – An anarcho-capitalist president?
- Proper Gander – SSRIs and side effects
- Book reviews – Smith, Veevers, Yates
- 50 Years Ago – Chile: myth and reality
- Action Replay – Running into the sand
- October 2023 Events
- Life and Times – A bit of your own back?
- Editorial – ‘God is Great!’
- Pathfinders – Nothing but animals
- Palestine: the background
- Israel-Gaza war: What we say
- Cooking the Books – What is productivity?
- Halo, Halo & Tiny Tips
- Material World – Insurance: a branch of the betting industry
- Capitalism’s structural waste
- Why are prices always rising?
- Capitalism’s Endgame: a reply to our review
- How do we get there?
- Driving to distraction
- The seduction of language
- Cooking the Books – No magic wand
- Proper Gander -Gathering storm
- Book Reviews – Orwell, Schneider, Mieville
- 50 Years Ago – A gold-filled irrelevance
- Action Replay – Back to the roots
- November 2023 events
- Life and Times – Still on strike
- Editorial – Last Post for capitalism?
- Pathfinders – The tangled web
- Dear Editors
- Cooking the Books 1 – From Marx to Musk
- Halo Halo / Tiny Tips
- Material World – Think global, act global
- ‘Take me to your leader’
- It’s that time of year again
- Human rights and human wrongs
- From ideology to humanity
- What drives the capitalist economy
- Video review: Illustrate to Educate?
- A polite reply to a Jehovah’s Witness
- Pro-Palestine or Anti-War?
- Cooking the Books 2 – Progress and pauperism
- Proper Gander – Fashion Victims
- Book reviews – McManus, Harper, Morland
- Obituaries – Moir, Hendrie
- 50 Years Ago – The Middle East war: a letter to a Kiev cousin
- Action Replay – Try and Try Again
- December 2023 events
- Life and Times – Nice twist, keep them happy – and screw them at the same time
2024
- Editorial – No capitalism without war
- Pathfinders – The Acali Raft Experiment
- Letters – Edinburgh – then and now
- What competition for profits means
- Cooking the Books – Does austerity breed extremism?
- Halo Halo & Tiny tips
- Material World – Shareholder capitalism
- New Year Party
- Labour, Tory, same old story
- Anarchism and socialism: what’s the difference?
- News from Canada: it’s the same the whole world over
- Video Review – German cultural history and socialism
- Film Review – Miss Marx
- Does voting matter?
- Cooking the Books – Capitalism : whose bonanza?
- Obituary – Ralph Critchfield
- Proper Gander – An appetite for profit
- Book Reviews – Mikanowski, Varoufakis, Wildermuth
- 50 Years Ago – Subsidizing food destruction
- Action Replay – Odds against
- January 2024 events
- Life and Times – Lifestyle choices: does it make a difference?
- Editorial – Gangs and counter-gangs
- Pathfinders – Capitalism unplugged
- Dear Editors
- Cooking the Books 1 – Entrepreneurialism
- Halo Halo / Tiny Tips
- Material World – Technology, capitalism and war
- New Year, old notions
- ‘Defence diplomacy’
- Will information goods undermine capitalism?
- How democratic is ‘Democracy’?
- Poverty and the causes of wealth
- What has capitalism ever done for us?
- Try thinking
- Cooking the Books 2 – Communism is socialism
- Obituary: Ron Elbert
- Proper Gander – Lights… Camera… Political Action?
- Book reviews – Pirani, Goodwin, Brown / ILP exhibition
- 50 Years Ago – Oiling the works
- Action Replay – To a tee
- February 2024 events
- Life and Times – Poverty amid plenty
- Editorial – The coming change of office-holders
- Pathfinders – How much does Dark Matter?
- War and rumours of war
- Cooking the Books – What does ‘capitalism’ mean?
- George Galloway’s ‘Workers Party’
- Halo Halo & Tiny tips
- Material World – The problem of plastics
- The Party of Business
- Office sharing in Northern Ireland
- ‘Multipolar’ . . . but purely capitalist
- An ‘anarcho-capitalist’ explains
- How we perceive work
- Nordic socialism: is it a thing?
- Cooking the Books – Two questions answered
- Proper Gander – Crossing the line
- Book reviews – Dyer, Headicar, Mau / The Communist review
- 50 Years Ago – Tory and Labourite agree
- Action Replay – Hitting the spot
- March 2024 events
- Life and Times – My friend Phil
- Editorial – Tinkering will not fix things
- Pathfinders – Attack of the zombies
- Greater London Assembly elections, Thursday 2 May 2024
- Cooking the Books 1 – Be they dragons?
- Halo Halo / Tiny Tips
- Material World – Pollution pays
- Galloway’s Workers Party: A sheep in wolf’s clothing
- Labour and ‘the lower-working-class’
- Capitalism and the fallacy of reform
- A fair day’s pay for a fair day’s work?
- Your home as ‘fictitious’ capital
- Coal Face-offs
- Horrorscope revisited
- Cooking the Books 2 – What would ‘good’ capitalism be?
- Proper Gander – Presenting the past
- Book reviews – Davis, Hildyard, Griffiths
- 50 Years Ago – Labour Government: The Worst of Illusions
- Action Replay – Kitted Out
- April 2024 events
- Life & Times – Horror in the Middle East. Choosing sides
- Editorial – The Middle East: capitalist powder keg
- Pathfinders – Death by algorithm
- Cannon fodder needed
- Cooking the Books 1 – Uninvestible
- Halo Halo / Tiny tips
- Material World: Will technological innovation lead to a post-capitalist society?
- Does veganism help?
- Socialism through the looking glass, or wage-labour as liberation
- Worker co-operatives in the capitalist system
- Warnings and alerts
- Zionism – A case study in nationalism
- End capitalism
- Cooking the Books 2 – An April Fool
- Proper Gander – Going public about going private
- Book Reviews – Foot, Whitehead, Huber
- 50 Years Ago – Students against democracy
- Action Replay – Abuse of position
- May 2024 events
- Life and Times – Trump v the Binman
- Editorial – Ends and means
- Pathfinders – A walk in the woods
- Which electoral strategy for socialists?
- Cooking the Books 1 – More pro-business than thou
- Halo Halo / Tiny Tips
- Material World – Nation or class?
- The problem is not the Tories….
- Playing by the rules of war
- Voting: is it worth it?
- Does socialism exist in Venezuela?
- Fascism as ideology
- What makes you happy?
- Revolution meets Reform
- Cooking the Books 2 – Wages, prices and profits
- Proper Gander – United by music, non-politically?
- Book reviews – Dorling, Wolf, Nineham
- 50 Years Ago – Bishop who made our pamphlet his Bible
- Action Replay – Fair play and profits
- June 2024 events
- Life & Times – Work in China and the UK
- Editorial – A chance to vote for socialism
- Pathfinders – Up for grabs
- Our candidates in the July 2024 election
- Cooking the Books 1 – The blame game
- Halo Halo / Tiny tips
- Material World – Who voted for Elon Musk?
- What is socialism?
- Elections worldwide
- The myth of consumer sovereignty
- Small change
- A socialist future?
- All change for the gravy train
- Shoplift
- Theatre Review – Nye -Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff
- Cooking the Books 2 – UBI no solution
- Proper Gander – Temu’s temerity
- Book Reviews – Branigan, Haug et al, Silvertown
- 50 Years Ago – Fascism, violence and the Left
- Action Replay – Best foot forward
- July 2024 events
- Life & Times – Asylum hell
- Editorial – Instant recoil
- Pathfinders – Lions and lionesses
- Nothing to get excited about
- The Euros – how beautiful is the game?
- Cooking the Books 1 – Some reformists never learn
- Halo / Tiny Tips
- Material World – The politics of envy
- Where Farage won
- The big picture
- Government by the few for the few
- How society works
- Danger: conspiracists at work
- Troubled Times – Exhibition review
- Something to think about / Diggers Festival
- Cooking the Books 2 – Should tokens make the world go round?
- Proper Gander – Anti-social media
- Book reviews – Graeber, Roth/Cengiz, O’Brien
- 50 Years Ago – Ivan Illich, intellectual
- Action Replay – From top to bottom
- August 2024 events
- Life & Times – To park or not to park?
- Editorial – Stopping the boots
- Pathfinders – There will be riots
- Letter – Do we need vouchers?
- Artificial scarcity
- Cooking the Books 1 – Trumponomics
- Halo Halo / Tiny tips
- Material World – Taking the gold
- Extreme reaction
- How we live and how we might live
- The media and the mob
- Billionaires behaving badly
- Cash or cachet?
- A Special Branch report
- Cooking the Books 2 – Another reform stops working
- Party News
- Proper Gander – Hacked off
- Book reviews – Hester/Srnicek, Merchant, Chandler
- 50 Years Ago – The war in Cyprus
- Action Replay – Faster, higher, fraternity
- September 2024 events
- Life and Times – Being your own boss
- Editorial – The capitalist witches’ brew that led to Grenfell
- Pathfinders – Boeing: out in the cold
- A plague on both their houses
- Cooking the Books 1 – ‘The markets’ before people
- Halo Halo / Tiny Tips
- Material World – Non-market socialism is feasible
- Labour landslides: then and now
- Grenfell: an unquenchable blaze
- How we live and how we might live (2)
- Labour’s capitalist wealth fund
- Party News: three leaflets
- Cooking the Books 2 – Harris in Blunderland
- Exhibition review – In the Wild
- Proper Gander – Flipped Off
- Book reviews – Reitter, Monbiot/Hutchison, Potts
- 50 Years Ago – Confucius, Lin Piao and the CCP
- Action Replay – Bulls, lions and cuts
- October 2024 events
- Life & Times – Advertising for a gardener
- Editorial – Fireworks on November 5?
- Pathfinders – Nobel efforts
- A mental state
- Cooking the Books 1 – Pocket money
- Halo Halo / Tiny tips
- Material World – Cosmetic tourism
- Food, insecure food
- Should ‘we’ consume less?
- What the heck is Cultural Marxism?
- How we live and how we might live (3)
- Lenin was wrong, Marx was right
- Cooking the Books 2 – The ‘overriding financial objective’
- Proper Gander – Not-so special offers
- Book reviews – Bevins, Leigh, Kuper
- 50 Years Ago – ‘Vote for them but …’
- Action Replay – The Price Is Right, or wrong
- November 2024 events
- Life and Times – 4-Wheel Drive Toyota Tundra