The Middle Aged Revolutionary

“If the writer of these lines has succeeded in providing some material for clarifying these problems, he may regard his labours as not having been fruitless.”

V.I. Lenin, 1899

Tag: history

  • The Birmingham Bin Strike

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    Since the turn of the year, the brave bin workers of Birmingham have put up fierce resistance to obscene attacks on their wages and working conditions by Birmingham City Council. The bin workers, surviving only on strike pay, stand united and, unfortunately, virtually alone against this vicious and premeditated attack by the Labour-controlled council. Birmingham…

  • A Walk Through Lowestoft

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    Recently, my local party tasked me with visiting the Suffolk coastal town of Lowestoft to assess its suitability for us to set up a table in the future to talk to local people about the utter mess our country is in and, crucially, what we can do about it. As it turned out, I found…

  • Care Work and Immigration: What It Means for Workers

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    Labour Home Secretary Yvette Cooper’s announcement on the BBC on Sunday 11th May that the practice of recruiting workers in the care industry from abroad would end would surely have been met with the wryest of smiles amongst the great and the good within the Reform Party. They would have known that they have made…

  • Labour’s £4.8bn Welfare Cuts: Clive Lewis Speaks Out

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    On 25th March, Labour MP Clive Lewis appeared on BBC’s Newsnight programme and spoke on the cuts to welfare which were predicted by reports leading up to the Spring Statement, which took place on the following day. Leftists across the land took to X and other social media outlets to whoop at Lewis’ as he…

  • Why Are Birth Rates Declining?

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    On 28th January 2025, The Daily Telegraph ran an article entitled “How soaring housing costs have crushed the birth rate”. This article detailed the very real and potentially devastating problem of Britain’s declining birth rate and made a link, albeit tenuous, between this seemingly inexorable decline and the availability of affordable housing. The lowest birth…

  • The TUC: In Complete Lockstep With Imperialism

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    On 22nd February, the Trades Unions Congress will be joining unions including the National Union of Mineworkers (total number of members 196), the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen (ASLEF), Unison, GMB and PCS in a rally in London alongside such luminaries as Peter Tatchell and John McDonnell to call for the withdrawal of…

  • The Beeching Report: A Legacy of Britain’s Railways

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    On 27th March 1963, British Railways published a report entitled “The Reshaping of Britain’s Railways”. The report, followed two years later by “The Development of the Major Trunk Routes”, detailed in full the lines and stations which, in the view of Dr Richard Beeching, the man who wrote both reports, should be closed permanently in…