About writing and me
I am a freelance researcher having written on arms conversion and international security for various peace organisations including CND, CAAT and for trade unions. My main interest is workers control …
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International Working-Class Security – Dismantling the Global Military-Industrial Complex (July 2019)
We are living through a pre-world war crisis when there is no existential, military threat to the security of working people. A global military-industrial complex (GMIC), dominated by the United …
Read MoreThe New Arms Race : Capitalism, Militarism and the Descent into Collective Insanity
The threat of war between the major powers has never been greater since the 1930s. Just as then, the international community has abandoned any ambitions it once had for comprehensive …
Read MoreWorkers Control – Local Alternatives to Globalised Capitalism
How do we get from a capitalist system that rewards a rich elite for the exploitation of working people’s labour to one where the economy is democratically-owned and controlled? How …
Read MoreA Radical Alternative to the European Union – Institution-building from below
The European Union can never be anything other than a neo-liberal and militarist institution. Over decades, the federal elites have constructed a monetary, fiscal and legal framework to embed corporate …
Read MoreThe UK Under Occupation – America’s Impregnable Death Star in the North Atlantic
The UK under Occupation – America’s Impregnable Death Star in the North Atlantic My country has been under occupation since the end of the Second World War. Large tracts of …
Read MoreAbout me and music
My songwriting focuses on political themes and reflects a range of musical influences from pop through to classical. Lyrically, subject matters include the environmental crisis, capitalist exploitation and working-class struggles. …
Read MoreThe F35 Joint Strike Fighter Aircraft – Baroque Arsenals and England’s Post-Imperial Delusion
If anything symbolises the English state, as opposed to the now fractured British state, it is the fighter aircraft. A heady mixture of power projection and technological sophistication feeds into …
Read MoreOil as a Weapon of Mass Destruction
Why Saudi Arabia should be occupied by a UN peacekeeping force Predictions that an era of ‘peak oil’ was imminent are wrong, or so the new orthodoxy would have us …
Read MoreIn Defence of Radical Politics
Politics is in my blood. I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t fascinated by the political process in general and working-class politics in particular. The fundamental challenge raised by …
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