When you talk to people about socialism, one of the first arguments doubters trot out is that communism could never work, because people are too lazy and greedy to behave altruistically. According to the doubters, people won’t bother to work…
Author: Naomi Philips
Britain is said to be the home of parliamentary democracy, which countries around the world have modelled their own political systems on. But what the media and education systems rarely ask is whether this democracy actually lives up to what…
Recently, newspapers and conservative social media feeds blasted out happy birthday messages for Charles Windsor’s 74th. But the case for keeping the monarchy is built on inequality and exploitation. Spending £345 million per year to keep one family in luxury,…
There are a group of talking points going around today that paint communism as an anti LGBTQ+ ideology. When queer people identify ourselves as communists, we’re sometimes ridiculed as naive. We must not have heard about Stalin re-criminalizing homosexuality, or…
Many socialists in the Imperial Core today see creating co-ops as a way to combat capitalism. In co-ops, they say, there are no owners extracting surplus value from the workers. Therefore, the existence of co-ops both prevents Capital from exploiting…
How many times have you heard someone say: “I’m going to get a job that pays me what I’m worth”? That feeling of being poorly rewarded for your efforts is one that most of us can relate to. All the…
“In the wake of the Armistice, the ‘homes fit for heroes’ campaign was adopted as the major weapon of the state in the ‘battle of opinion’ on which, it was believed, the future of the entire social order depended.” –…
The reproductive rights of people who are capable of getting pregnant are under attack around the world. The recent overturning of Roe vs Wade in the US, which makes it possible for individual states to ban abortions within their boundaries,…