William Morris
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Books: The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology
John Bellamy Foster’s brilliant recovery of a century of ecological and socialist thought will inform, enable, and inspire a new generation of reds and greens Continue reading
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A Late Victorian Utopia – Wilde’s Socialism in Context By James Thompson
At the time of the publication of ‘The Soul of Man under Socialism,’, Wilde was a hard working man of letters: well-known as essayist, reviewer and editor, deeply fashionable as dinner party guest, and much criticised as the author of The Picture of Dorian Gray, the first version of which had featured in Lippincott’s Magazine… Continue reading
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Parliament: the mother of all deceptions By William Bowles
30 June 2012 “There — it sickens one to have to wade through this grimy sea of opportunism. What a spectacle of shuffling, lies, vacillation and imbecility does this Game Political offer to us? I cannot conclude without an earnest appeal to those Socialists, of whatever section, who may be drawn towards the vortex of Continue reading
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Occupy The World! To the barricades comrades? By William Bowles
What an irony that the Left—led largely by middle class intellectuals—fails to see what has happened, trapped as it is in its own patronizing and nostalgic vision of the working class aka George ‘middle class’ Orwell’s ‘Road to Wigan Pier’. Continue reading
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Capitalism cut adrift – Part 2: Looking Sideways By William Bowles
Television has become the major propaganda weapon of capital, serving not only to ‘entertain’ but to transform our understanding of where we came from and crucially, how we got here. Continue reading
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An Epoch of Rest By William Bowles
Long dismissed by ‘purist’ Marxists as unworkable, in light of the fact that even the original socialist version of industrial society is no more viable than the capitalist one, perhaps it’s time to reconsider Morris’s allegedly utopian vision. Continue reading
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My Dad, me and Nature By William Bowles
Any socialist transformation of our economy must, through its very nature, be one that is in tune with the natural world. It must include the reinvention of skills and processes that capitalism has destroyed simply because they don’t make a profit. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 