real utopias

Many of Labour's 2015 intake are opposed to welfare cuts. They're also in safe seats.

Labour is choosing a new leader, but the party is also having a debate about what policies it should have.While most of the discussion in the contest so has focused on familiar ground, all the candidates have put forward some new ideas of their own.

Chomsky on wage slavery, slavery and classical liberalism.

All of us on the Left are all too familiar with the capitalist offensive of the past forty years. Under the banner of "neoliberalism," capital has rolled back almost every gain working people across the world have made since the 1930s. All sorts of public industries, services and institutions have been privatized, social welfare programs that protected workers from the worst insecurities of the labor-market have been rolled back or simply abolished and unions and working class political parties that had traditionally organized and represented working people have been severely weakened.

With the Labour party reeling from last week's General Election defeat, Joe Kennedy asks if the party rested on its post war laurels just as it kowtowed to neoliberalism, that force he argues is responsible for the 'shittification' of everything...

http://www.egs.edu/ Slavoj Zizek, Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic, talking about the theoretical richness of Lacan's four discourses: the master's ...

An incisive book on digital labour looks at the IT boom through a sharply Marxian lens

Ed Miliband’s late father became a staunch anticapitalist as a teenager and remained one all his life.