a worker's views
bolshievik The Ukrainian presidential elections resulted in a TV actor beating the incumbent (Petro Poroshenko) and a third-time candidate for president (Yulia Tymoshenko) into second and third places, respectively. The first round of the Ukrainian elections was won by Volodymyr Zelensky, an actor, with no previous political experience – unless you include playing an anti-corruption campaigner … Read more
Who says the BBC’s World Service, which is part-funded by the British government’s Foreign Office, is biased? Today the radio service reported on 2 demonstrations in Venezuela – one pro-Maduro and one pro-Guaido – which took place in different areas of Caracas. The emphasis of the report, by Will Grant, was on the grievances of … Read more
It is worth listening to what the ruling class is saying. Because often they display a greater level of class-consciousness than we do when analysing the economic and political crisis. Take Bruno Le Maire for example. Mr Le Maire is the Economy and Finance Minister in Macon’s government in France. He appeared recently in an … Read more
Mathew d’Ancona is a columnist in the London Evening Standard and the Guardian. He is also a bigot. In the Evening Standard today he characterises the people on the other side of the referendum vote as xenophobes. It must be very comforting to this moral guardian of the nation to blame the ‘breakdown in … Read more
James McClean plays for Stoke City, and has chosen not to wear a poppy. In a home game against Middlesborough on Saturday he was the subject of verbal abuse from visiting fans, and some home fans, for his choice. McClean’s response was to use a quotation from Bobby Sands: “They have nothing in their whole … Read more
Guardian Friday 3 Aug 2018 PC Daniel Reed was one of six officers from Durham police who went to the Dalesman pub in Darlington to arrest a 43-year-old man on suspicion of a public order offence and witness intimidation on 8 November 2016. When the man did not cooperate, officers deployed pepper spray and then … Read more
Once again the ruling class are out in force trying to undo the Leave vote. 17.4 million workers and middle class voters declared their wish to leave the capitalist club that is the EU. And ever since that decision was reached there has been a concerted campaign to overthrow their vote. Voters were too … Read more
You could read a whole article by a highly-regarded economist and come away convinced he is a simpleton. Stephen King of HSBC is no exception. He wrote a comment piece in the Evening Standard asking whether the Bank of England understood what was going on. Fair question. We know they don’t. But then Stephen, HSBC’s’ … Read more
The US has gone to Davos to tell the rest of the world it is declaring a trade war. The US Commerce Secretary declared, ‘Trade wars are fought every single day. Every single day there are always parties violating the rules and trying to take unfair advantage of things. So a trade war has been … Read more