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There is no wealth but life

There seemed to be no chance of an ambulance so I phoned for a taxi. If I hadn’t been in so much pain and unable to think clearly I would have caught the train and then a bus. That’s how I usually travel. At the bottom of the street I live in there had beenContinue reading “There is no wealth but life”

In the Court of King Capital

The Canary Wharf development on the Isle of Dogs is one of several excellent places to study Marxism. The key ingredients of the recipe to cook up ‘Capital’ are all easily found. The exploitation of labour, the bringing together of large quantities of raw materials, money, and the division of society into two main classesContinue reading “In the Court of King Capital”

Praed Street & the Liberty Tree

Walking through the revolving doors of a identikit London office block (the basic components are concrete, glass and steel, rearranged in a small number of patterns), out into the cold, wet and dark winter evening. I turned the collar of my coat up against the wind. The wind seemed out of place in the neonContinue reading “Praed Street & the Liberty Tree”

The last train to paradise

Waking up too early with the flickering remnants of a cinematic dream. A replication of an earlier version. Dreams become part of our memories and like all memories are deeply within our conscious and unconscious mind. I have experienced this particular dream many times before. It’s about loss. It always has the same ending. TheContinue reading “The last train to paradise”

Ask The Man Who Cuts the Golden Silk

The books are piling up as the time-sands of the working days trickle away through a giant hourglass. The pressure of the day job is easing. Only a day or two to go. I’ve been preparing for this over a couple of weeks now. Long evenings and weekends engrossed in volume one of Capital, LudovicoContinue reading “Ask The Man Who Cuts the Golden Silk”

Anti-War

On the road that runs along the sea front a large Range Rover is motionless while the engine continues to run. The driver is staring out to sea. Dreaming of concentration camps for refugees and law and order for the people who shuffle through the streets, plastic shoes, thin coats, huddled up, it’s cold. JustContinue reading “Anti-War”

Red Vienna: A Reading List

Update: Thursday 31 July 2025I am organising a ‘Red Vienna Radical Walk’ on Sunday 28 September 2025. Meet outside the Rabenhof Theatre, Rabengasse 3, 1030 Wien at 14.00More details here:https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1548015378669?aff=oddtdtcreator If you want more details use the contact form, link on the top right corner of this page. * * * * * * *Continue reading “Red Vienna: A Reading List”

Cosmopolitics

Unsure of the atmosphere on the streets. Mortimer Street, Cavendish Square, Mortimer Street, Tottenham Court Road. Not sure what atmosphere I’m trying to find. The degradation of England is deliberate. The Tories have been in power for thirteen years. It would have been possible to have fixed poor housing, housing shortages, zero hours contracts, refugeeContinue reading “Cosmopolitics”

Flanders Light

Another time, these are different people, with lives we pass as our train slowly picks up speed. The Palais de Justice past Bruxelles Centraal, built on a hill top in the centre of the city to act as a physical reminder to the working class of the power of the state. The obligatory walls ofContinue reading “Flanders Light”

I Am, Your Image

I traced almost exactly the same steps as a week ago. So much has happened in those past seven days. So much should have happened and never did. A billion more car miles added to the death of planet earth, never ending smog, burning forests, dried up rivers, melting ice caps. Thousands more tonnes ofContinue reading “I Am, Your Image”