Author: pmadmin
The ghost of Ayn Rand and Covid policy
Read more →Starmer needs to end Labour’s civil war
Read more →Engerland – the dialectic’s point of change
Read more →How to end the poison of online racism
Read more →1966. We won, then silence
Read more →Tbilisi, Philly: Using violence for purity
Read more →The sale of the UK’s largest chip plant
Read more →Labour’s victory in Batley and Spen
Read more →Labour’s struggles in Batley and Spen
Read more →Trump: the Stochastic President?
Read more →Pig, stupid and other fascist insults
Read more →The Tory attack on ‘white privilege’.
Read more →Brexit is not a dead issue
Read more →The threat of Labour defeat in Batley and Spen
Read more →Biden has grasped a basic truth
Read more →Booing the knee?
Read more →How the Covid shock has radicalised Gen Z
Read more →Tech authoritarianism and the NHS data grab
Read more →Inflation scare must not stop workers getting their dues
Read more →Labour must accept a progressive alliance
Read more →Lecture notes – socio-economic forces and the Paris Commune
Read more →Blair is pining for a centre that no longer exists
Read more →Labour’s route to power
Read more →Starmer needs the left to win
Read more →Only radical change will save Labour
Read more →Labour must embrace post-work future
Read more →European Super League: another football is possible
Read more →Russia invades Ukraine, the west paralysed
Read more →Why pop-up parties are on the rise
Read more →Tories are getting away with corruption
Read more →No one wants to stand for Starmer’s Labour
Read more →Vote leave policy dangerous for world
Read more →After Meghan and Harry- change or perish
Read more →Luxemburg was right
Read more →Budget shows need for alternative to austerity
Read more →Sunak signals Austerity Lite
Read more →Texas catastrophe and the planet
Read more →Labour must follow Biden’s example
Read more →Trump acquitted
Read more →Johnson’s probe into Left extremism is dangerous
Read more →Starmer is allowing Tory failure
Read more →The Left should not block Scottish Independence
Read more →Johnson will struggle to adapt to Biden
Read more →American Fascism is a deadly threat
Read more →The Trump insurrection, a Marxist analysis
Read more →We are all Antifa now!
Read more →Covid deniers are still dangerous
Read more →Johnson lost control of Covid again
Read more →Torys will blame Pandemic on Public
Read more →Trump shows the Tories can be beaten
Read more →New Zealand’s report on the Far-Right
Read more →Labour’s destructive civil war must end
Read more →Digital warfare erodes distinctions
Read more →The UK must embrace a European future
Read more →To defeat the far right the UK and US left need a strategy
Read more →Even if Biden Wins, the Democrats have been exposed
Read more →Reinstate Jeremy Corbyn
Read more →Even if Trump’s defeated the left must fight Trumpism
Read more →Burnham spoke the language of class struggle
Read more →Covid has turned the UK into a ‘Frankenstate’
Read more →This house believes this is the end of capitalism
Read more →Why Starmer can’t afford to lose the left
Read more →The International Brigades by Giles Tremlett- Review
Read more →Trump has shown how he will use far right vioelnce
Read more →Starmer’s conference speech lacked vision
Read more →How the UK is destroying itself over Brexit
Read more →Why capitalism can’t deliver sustainability
Read more →Why the Tories are prepared to break the law over Brexit
Read more →Politicians must confront Q-Anon
Read more →The Democrats need a plan to stop Trump’s election bid
Read more →The Conservatives outsourced blame for public scandals
Read more →Labour won’t win turning its back on refugees
Read more →China’s brutal authoritarianism
Read more →Authoritarianism, an urgent political issue
Read more →The left, the party and the class
Read more →Neoliberal Austerity is bad, pre-fascist authoritarianism is worse
Read more →This is a moment for UBI
Read more →How to imagine the death of capitalism
Read more →The UK needs a defence revolution
Read more →Sunak’s PR Strategy
Read more →Johnson’s fake new deal
Read more →How the Labour Left must change
Read more →Denied the far right, the Wages of Whiteness
Read more →Labour must lead the anti-racist movement
Read more →Seven reflexes of Resistance
Read more →Trump declares war on US democracy
Read more →Cummings, did Covid come from China?
Read more →What 700 years of falling interest rates tell us
Read more →Labour must outline a radical alternative
Read more →Furlough challenges show austeritiy’s logic endures
Read more →The Uk’s culture divide is making Labour cautious
Read more →The Crisis of the Conservative Mind
Read more →Why its dangerous to believe the bounce back
Read more →Pablo Iglesias on Spain’s basic income scheme
Read more →To Fight the Economic Crisis
Read more →Ten Lessons of Corbynism
Read more →After Coronavirus, a new struggle begins
Read more →Capital and Ideology- Thomas Piketty in review
Read more →Video: Clear Bright Future
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Our broken economic model has triggered a crisis of the neoliberal self
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The radical defence of the human being starts with you
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The antidote to the folk religion of fatalism is simple: find each other and act
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The rise of AI means business ethics are not enough. We’re going to need a whole new moral philosophy.
Read more →#ThisIsACoup (Field of Vision, 2015)
Director Theopi Skarlatos. Narrator Paul Mason. Executive producer Karen O’Connor. In this four-part documentary series Paul Mason follows the Greek uprising against the Eurozone, from inception to defeat. With exclusive access to the corridors of power, and at the front line of social conflict.
Read more →Astoria (Young Vic, 2016)
Written and directed by Paul Mason Budapest 2016: At the height of the refugee crisis, a Syrian woman searches for friends in the backstairs of a Budapest hotel. But the building has an unacknowledged past…
Read more →K is for Karl (2018)
Written and narrated by Paul Mason, director Theopi Skarlatos No thinker has influenced the modern world more than Karl Marx. But what did he really think? In these five short animated documentaries, commissioned by the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung for the 200th anniversary of Marx’s birth Paul Mason explores the key concepts of Marxism. For screenwriting […]
Read more →Divine Chaos of Starry Things (White Bear, 2017)
Paris 1871: A revolt takes control of a global city. In the final days, working class women – seamstresses, teachers and sex workers – take up arms, desperate to defend the freedoms they have won. Their attempt fails and they are exiled to remote New Caledonia. Based on the memoirs of 19th century feminist icon […]
Read more →Why It’s Kicking Off Everywhere (Young Vic, 2017)
How did we get from Occupy and the Arab Spring to Donald Trump? Narrated by Paul Mason, script developed in collaboration with director David Lan, producer Ben Cooper and the cast: Khalid Abdallah, Lara Sawalha and Sirine Saba. Commissioned by BBC Performance Live. Performed at the Young Vic March 2017. Broadcast on BBC TWO 22 […]
Read more →Party Animals (JB Shorts Manchester, 2016)
2015: A Labour special adviser goes comatose on the day Ed Miliband loses the election, and wakes up on the day his replacement is chosen…. A 15 minute play co-written with James Quinn for the JB Shorts festival, Manchester, 2016, starring Sally Carman. “The cherry on the cake … guaranteeing the audience leaves wiping away […]
Read more →Bristol: We The Curious
#ClearBrightFuture
Read more →London: King’s Place
With Zoe Williams
Read more →Clear Bright Future
Clear Bright Future: A radical defence of the human being, was published by Allen Lane in May 2019. In it I defend the idea of radical humanism in the face of algorithmic control, artificial intelligence and enforced, performative market behaviour. I argue that free-market economics were a gateway drug to a widespread anti-humanistic and fatalist […]
Read more →Postcapitalism
June 2015: “The danger is that as the crisis drags on the elite’s commitment to liberalism evaporates. The successful crooks and dictators of the emerging world have already bought influence and respectability: you can feel their power as you walk through the door of certain law firms, PR consultancies and even corporations. How long will […]
Read more →Rare Earth
Tiananmen Square, 2009: “Across the concrete, hundreds of metres wide, tens of thousands of unquiet spirits had begun to march … The dead, scraped up off the floors of unlit factories; the victims of firing squads; workers whose lives had been shortened by cancer and poisoning. A whole delegation of brick-kiln kids, their childhoods stolen by […]
Read more →Why It’s Still Kicking Off Everywhere
Cairo, 2011: “The ground floor of Musa Zekry’s house is head-high with garbage and thick with flies. The floor above is home to the widow of his brother, shot dead during the revolution….A dead brother, several fear-filled days in Tahrir Square, weeks of danger and distrust: that’s the balance sheet of Musa Zekry’s revolution. All […]
Read more →Meltdown
Lehman Brothers, 15 September 2008: “I stumble aboard the train. As it speeds through Maryland, I try to follow the news via guerrilla log-ons to wi-fi as we pass through stations: Baltimore, Philadelphia, Newark. The Susquehanna river flashes past, shimmering in the dawn. The herons, gliding low across the water, were here long before investment banks. What nobody […]
Read more →Live Working or Die Fighting
Shenzhen, 2003: “When they came into the room the guys were sheepish and so was I; every one of them was missing a limb. I had dragged them across the city to meet me in this tatty rooming house because, for a Western journalist, going to Longgang – an industrial suburb of Shenzhen – is only […]
Read more →Manchester: The Dancehouse
With Stuart Maconie
Read more →Britain’s impossible futures
The UK parliament is at an impasse, the latest vote producing a majority for a renegotiation of its departure from Europe that the EU cannot grant. Both main parties risk fracture. So does the UK.
Read more →Break up big tech
The great technologists believe that society exists outside of them. We must fragment technological monopolies until they behave
Read more →Boris and the bananas
Johnson sold the dream of hard Brexit to the British people. Now the fantasies of the right-wing Conservatives have collided with reality
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