Labour, The Left, and The Working Class — A Response To Paul Mason — Lessons For The Left — Part 15/15 — Lesson 8 — Programme and Politics (iii)

The lessons that the Left should learn are almost diametrically opposed to those that…

The Panic Buying Narrative Simply Doesn’t Wash

The government is trying to explain the fact that supermarket shelves are empty by blaming unknown individuals for panic buying. It is a narrative that simply is not credible. Yet, again it is an exercise in “othering” as a means of distracting…

Labour, The Left, and The Working Class — A Response To Paul Mason — Lessons For The Left — Part 3/15 — Lesson 3 — Independence of The Working Class

The most important lesson, reaching back to Marx and Engels, and the…

Labour, The Left, and The Working Class — A Response To Paul Mason — The Programme of the Early Comintern, and the Transitional Programme (2/17)

The idea that Paul should have taken from the early Comintern is not his confusion of…

Labour, The Left, and The Working Class — A Response To Paul Mason — The Programme of the Early Comintern, and the Transitional Programme (12/18)

But, the fundamental theoretical premise upon which Paul bases his argument is…

After This Disaster There Should Never Be Tory Government Ever Again

Labour, The Left, and The Working Class — A Response To Paul Mason — The Political Situation (2/14)

Labour, The Left, and The Working Class — A Response To Paul Mason — Lessons For The Left — Part 13/15 — Lesson 8 — Programme and Politics (i)

Labour’s 2019 Programme was a confused mess. At the heart of that mess was the…

Mass Society and Totalitarianism

In the light of the growth of populism, I thought it might be useful to dig out and publish this essay on the topic, which I wrote in 1979. I have slightly modified it to include some details that were included in background notes on some of the theorists cited, as well…