When I first became a councillor there was a standards committee. It seemed to spend a lot of time hearing grievances and counter grievances by various councillors some of whom used it to settle scores or take revenge for perceived slights. Thankfully it was eventually abolished. Today
Within Marxism, there is the concept of the ‘contradiction’. A contradiction is a precursor for revolution. They reflect a growing awareness by politically active people that the prevailing economic system does not work and that it needs to be ‘burst asunder’. Bursting a prevailing system
Marx or Lenin. Socialism, Democracy and the State. Marxism has evolved, not only because of a fashion for different interpretations but because of changing material realities, making large parts irrelevant or requiring radical reinterpretation. Marx was writing in the early to mid-nineteenth century a world quite
De Coding Wokeness; A Simple Guide. We hear a lot about the woke. But what is it to be woke? To understand wokeness it is necessary to understand a couple of theories one going back to the 1950s called postmodernism an oversimplification of Marxist consciousness and
Introduction It was Karl Marx who said Marxism solved the riddle of history. His nineteenth-century analysis explains a lot about the world as we know it today. People are feeling that the world is going mad. Clashing sets of values and ideas causing anger and outrage. But
Open Letter to Black Lives Matter - A British Perspective from Blue Revolution. Dear Black Lives Matter, Having read about your organisation from your website it seems that your aim is not just to bring about greater harmony between people of different races by highlighting the disproportionate
Dear Party Chairperson We understand you have adopted the definition of Islamophobia as “a type of racism that targets expressions of Muslimness or perceived Muslimness”. We are sure that you have been contacted by some groups criticizing this definition which the government has chosen not to
The history of politics, simplified. Blue Revolution. When it comes to politics, we all feel confused. ‘Left’, ‘Right’ or maybe ‘Centre’. Liberal or totalitarian, Socialist, Revolutionary Socialist. What all these political ideas lack is a broad understanding by ordinary people. Political change has always involved a small group
The problem with the United Nations is that it has a perspective on the world shaped by two beliefs. The first is that western nations exploited black nations economically which is by and large true and secondly that it is now time to correct that
The ‘riddle of history solved’ is relatively easy to explain. It is basically why so many people create economic value but so few people ever get to control it. From the moment we had more than we needed to survive as small tribes, systems of