Oil, natural gas and capitalism War in Ukraine and the Middle East plays into the hands of the US oil and natural gas imperialists, warns ZOLTAN ZIGEDY
Thursday 16th Nov 2023 Averting a rendezvous with disaster ‘Cultural environmentalism’ alone will not solve the climate crisis, as, couched in the language of passivity, it avoids the urgent need for planned and targeted action, says ZOLTAN ZIGEDY
Tuesday 08th Aug 2023 Election Fever: A Fever Dream? How can clinging to the Democratic Party — the party that betrayed the cause of working people — be the answer to the rise in popularity of its right-wing movement posing as an alternative, asks ZOLTAN ZIGEDY
Saturday 29th Jul 2023 The cold war, desegregation and affirmative action Anti-racism in the US has long been subverted by the elevation of a few role models rather than meaningful equality for all – and the latest fad for policing manners and language won’t save it, writes ZOLTAN ZIGEDY
Tuesday 16th May 2023 The epoch of economic globalism: is it over? The alliances of capitalist internationalism that were established in the 1990s and the first decade of the 21st century are rapidly crumbling. What will follow remains a matter of conjecture, writes ZOLTAN ZIGEDY
Monday 13th Feb 2023 The great balloon fiasco While it is impossible not to see the absurdity of ever-escalating US claims over balloon spying – in the press, by the military and by politicians – they have deadly serious consequences and raise the risk of war, argues ZOLTAN ZIGEDY
Thursday 12th Jan 2023 ‘Let them die?’ Life expectancy collapses in the US ZOLTAN ZIGEDY looks at the latest disturbing figures and wonders if this is US capitalism’s next attempt to roll back what little welfare it provides
Wednesday 28th Dec 2022 Some socialist wishes for the new year From social democratic dreams of coexistence with capitalism, to misunderstandings over the nature of imperialism, ZOLTAN ZIGEDY hopes the left’s confusion can be eased in 2023
Tuesday 22nd Nov 2022 After the US midterms The Democrats won big — but only because the alternative to Joe Biden’s administration was even less appealing. Despite the cries of ‘fascist’ and ‘socialist’ from the red elephant and blue donkey, little was at stake, writes ZOLTAN ZIGEDY
Sunday 16th Oct 2022 No matter the country, capitalism is always the enemy We have drifted too long without class analysis, taking sides in uprisings and wars based on shallow understandings and personal political preferences rather than the material realities of economics, writes ZOLTAN ZIGEDY
Monday 10th Oct 2022 Clinging to the Anthropocene Are the latest fashionable ideas about environmentalism going to help us correctly identify profit as the engine of ecological destruction – or are we simply going to revisit discredited Malthusian tropes, asks ZOLTAN ZIGEDY
