Category Archives: Conservative Party

The Fears of the Powerful and the Hopes of the Peaceful

Posted on 01/10/2015 by Ed Sykes

After two decades of cruising along the contaminated economic canals built by Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s, the Labour Party’s failure to win the 2015 election proved quite definitively that it had no fuel left (even with the oil stolen … Continue reading →

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New Labour Is Right-Wing, but Corbyn Could Change That

Posted on 24/07/2015 by Ed Sykes

Did Ed Miliband lead “a traditional left-wing party” into the 2015 elections? Or is the difference between New Labour and the Conservatives “more about what the parties choose to talk about rather than any great differences in policy”?[1] If we … Continue reading →

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The Diversion Tactics of #Budget2015

Posted on 11/07/2015 by Ed Sykes

1) Housing Chaos As a result of George Osborne’s Summer Budget this year, says Paul Waugh at The Huffington Post, “at least 14,000 fewer affordable homes will be built” in the UK. This statistic, from the Office for Budget Responsibility … Continue reading →

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Britain’s Plutocracy, and How We Can Fight Against It

Posted on 08/05/2015 by Ed Sykes

Call it what you want: a bourgeois democracy (in which the parties in the service of exploitative economic elites are the most powerful); a kleptocracy (in which “a small group [gets] rich by robbing [citizens] blind”[1] with the compliance of … Continue reading →

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Different Shades of Tactical Voting (UK Elections 2015)

Posted on 28/04/2015 by Ed Sykes

The logic behind voting for the anti-Conservative candidate most likely to win an election is understandable in the majority of cases, as anything that slows down the spread of the deadly neoliberal virus clearly seems like something slightly less damaging … Continue reading →

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The 2015 Political Debate in the UK

Posted on 08/04/2015 by Ed Sykes

The main issues in the 2015 general elections in the United Kingdom seem to be: the cuts to the government’s social spending under the Tory-LibDem coalition (and whether to continue with them to ‘deal with the deficit’ or to reverse … Continue reading →

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Gaza: A Capitalist Genocide (Essay)

Posted on 23/08/2014 by Ed Sykes

[Note: This essay was written from a standpoint that seeks to decrease (and ultimately destroy) all discrimination (based on ethnicity, religion, or other factors) through the dissemination of information and reasoned analysis. Zionism is not synonymous with Judaism. Islamism is … Continue reading →

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UK Strike: “If We Organise Together as Working People, We Can Win”

Posted on 16/07/2014 by Ed Sykes

On July 10th, 2014, the UK saw a one-day strike of up to a million teachers, firefighters, civil servants, council employees, and health workers. This strike – the biggest that the Conservative/Liberal Democrat coalition has faced up to this point … Continue reading →

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UK: Homes for the Homeless

Posted on 09/06/2014 by Ed Sykes

Homelessness is a problem in the majority of capitalist societies. Thanks to the crisis and the dominance of neoliberal politics, it is on the rise, with shortages of affordable housing, evictions as a result of the bedroom tax, domestic abuse … Continue reading →

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ENGLAND: Refuse to Accept the Sun!