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

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  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Labour and the NHS: Why More People are Turning to Private Healthcare

    Labour and the NHS: Why More People are Turning to Private Healthcare

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    I recently spoke at some length to a very good friend of mine who retired from our employer a little over six years ago. As always, we talked about work-related bits and bobs, caught up on things affecting the railway industry in general (including another lengthy closure on the line between Ryde Esplanade and Ryde…

  • Corbyn and the Folly of a ‘Broad Left’

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    The news that Jeremy Corbyn had been elected as Member of Parliament for Islington North was met with whoops of approval by the remaining disciples of Jeremy of Islington as their ‘rebel’ was returned to the backbenches of Westminster from whence he came. Opinion polls from just a week or so before the General Election…

  • ‘None of the Above’ Triumphs!

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    Labour sweeps to power on the weakest massive mandate in decades – while 40% of the electorate didn’t bother to vote So the dust has finally settled on one of the dreariest, dullest and most depressing General Election campaigns of our times. With a popular vote which is lower than that gained by Labour under…

  • The Death of Our High Streets

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    The Labour party, to add to its growing list of non-policies with which it believes it can tempt an unsuspecting electorate to vote for them, in April released a five-point plan to revitalise the ailing high street of Britain. Labour rather disingenuously blame the Tories for the decline in our high streets, which seems to…

  • The Problem With Sharon Graham

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    Two years ago, I was a contributor on a podcast for the Workers Party of Britain on the issue of the trade unions and the Labour party. With me on the panel was Joti Brar, the then deputy leader of the Workers Party, Paul Embery, noted trade unionist and author of the book Despised: Why…