Sitting at the top of the Premier League with the youngest team in the division, the fluidity of Arsenal’s attractive playing style reflects the increasing integration of society’s economic-technical basis — as the binary mechanisms of mechanisation are replaced by (non-binary) automation — while the club’s international presence and efforts…

With capitalism entering its worst ever and possibly final crisis, Henryk Grossman, the neglected 20th century Marxist who explained the inevitability of such a ‘final breakdown’ most convincingly, is more relevant than ever — and must be rehabilitated. The book by Ted Reese — author of Socialism or Extinction, and…

Because capitalism is inevitably abolishing itself through the evolutionary replacement of exploitable (commodity-producing) labour — the source of profit — with automated production, competition over assets and dwindling profits between major capitalist (imperialist) nations is intensifying, threatening cataclysmic global conflict. “Have we entered the period of decisive revolutionary struggles? Has…

“The human body is mortal by nature. Hence illnesses are inevitable. Why does a man only go to the doctor when he is ill, and not when he is well? Because not only the illness, but even the doctor is an evil. Under constant medical tutelage, life would be regarded…

Sperm counts have reportedly fallen by 60% since the 1970s as a result of the microplastics and toxic chemicals sourced from fossil fuels and metal mines that are used in the production of the everyday commodities we consume. The root cause of this potentially existential abomination is the capitalist mode…

The announcement made on 18 April 2021 by an initial 12 professional clubs, including six from England, that they had signed up to a new closed shop European Super League was met with widespread outrage.[1] …

“If each of the instruments were able to perform its functions on command or by anticipation … so that the shuttles would weave themselves and picks play the lyre, master craftsmen would no longer have a need for subordinates, or masters for slaves.”[1] Aristotle Humans have longed to be free…

On 1 September 2020, Extinction Rebellion UK insisted that it is “not a socialist movement” and distanced itself from the rallying cry ‘socialism or extinction’. ‘Socialism or extinction’ is not just a slogan; it is a statement of scientific fact. Even if the climate has at times been warmer in…

“The end of [British] farming?” asked a feature in The Guardian at the end of February. A few days later it was leaked to the media that an aide to Boris Johnson’s conservative government had suggested that Britain no longer needs farmers and should import all of its food, since…