david kirk's blog

Arch capitalists from the Financial Times to the Council of Mortgage Lenders all now agree that we are in a housing crisis. Mortgage approvals in December have fallen to less than a 5th of what they where 18 months ago and all signs point to a mounting wave of repossessions. This crisis in home...

One of the results of the current financial and economic crisis is that the ideas of the economist John Maynard Keynes have been pulled of dusty library shelves and are now being peddled as a possible answer to the Credit Crunch. This is a massive turn around for keynesian economic theory, which for...

Over the last few months every edition of the Weekly Worker has carried at least one article about Workers Liberty. Headlines have included "Pro Imperialists Snubbed", "ENS must Break with AWL Social - Imperialism" and "[AWL] On the Defensive over Iraq". The main purpose of these articles seems to...

This is my contribution as to why we shouldnt consider joining Respect (in the form of a motion, its not in the royal 'we')

Respect was founded as a political grouping out of the Stop the War
movement. It was from the very beginning a cross-class alliance based on
anti-war and anti-racist...

Has any one seen the current issue of Socialist Worker. It has an Article by George Galloway.The last lines are "I glorify the Hizbollah resistance movement, and I glorify the leader of Hizbollah, Sheikh Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah". This must mean by extension that George glorifies in the death of...

This week the government has proposed it will spend between £10 and £25 billion replacing Trident with a upgraded nuclear weapons system in the next decade. This in the same week that American government(the supplier of the Trident system and probably its replacement) along with the British...