From Ian Angus and the ever excellent Socialist Voice. Positive Developments in the European Left by Ian Angus LeftViews is Socialist Voice’s forum for articles related to rebuilding the left in Canada and around the world, reflecting a wide variety of socialist opinion. In this article one of Socialist Voice’s editors outlines some recent positive developments in the

I had a few thoughts over a coffee this afternoon on how to express the difference between a Capitalist and a Socialist society in a short sharp shocking manner. In the Capitalist society, when an individual sees someone who is better off, they try to learn from them and work hard to do even better. In a Socialist world... they just steal it. The stealing may happen by proxy, but it is stealing ju...

Let's keep this one relatively brief, as I have no intention of giving the Express any more hits for their blatant rabble rousing. You might recall last year that the Express distorted a Sheffield council report which was a plan for averting possible tensions in the city into a "ethnic baby boom crisis" which was due to precipitate "race trouble".They've done much the same thing today, albeit on t...

There are various articles in the press attacking the weak weak weak coalition government and its gutless surrender to self defeating socialist envy. So far I like this from Dan Hannan the best ... recommended reading.

In a recent entry on the Articles file "In Defense of Liberty" we brought up the matter of a Dutch Parliamentary delegation headed for Turkey running into trouble, because the Turkish Government refused to meet with Geert Wilders, a member of the party. It's just become official and to his honor, the Socialist leader of the group has cancelled the tour altogether. The Turkish Government kindl...

The Socialist Group of the European Parliament is visiting Manchester as part of their regular diary of committee meetings around Europe.  Around 150 Socialist MEPs are visiting the city, visiting local schemes and meeting local people while discussing important issues such as Immigration and the Economy.  To mark their visit a number of articles by leading figures from the left wing of ...

The government is to take the East Coast rail service run by National Express into public ownership.

I don't know if you've noticed, but newspaper headlines are changing. When BP posted its profits earlier this week, newspapers of all stripes - the Express and the Daily Mail included - started to sound like the Socialist Worker.

Democratic Green Socialist The latest edition contains an interesting range of articles covering politics, culture and international issues.

Here’s how we redistribute taxation as a Socialist Government   The proposed abolition of the 10% income tax band hurts the poor and has quite rightly attracted widespread condemnation. The government claims that the restoration of the 10% band would cost around £7 billion and the predictable response is that we can't afford it. Here are twelve ways that the government can finance the restor...