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Twenty-First Century Socialism

  • 00) What’s New & Main Menu
  • 10) Ideas and Ideals
    • 10.1) More Ideas
      • Does the ‘Right Stuff’ exist?
      • Sir James Goldsmith: Rich, Loud and Ignorant
      • Sociocide – Liberalism’s True History
      • The Enlightenment’s Limited Light
      • The Trotskyist Origins of US Neo-Cons
      • Why I Call It a Global Night-Club
    • 10.2) Further Ideas
      • Classes in Britain in 2011
      • Fukuyama on History after the Gulf War
      • How the Left Created Modern Ideas of ‘The Normal’.
      • How to prevent school massacres
      • Pascal, the Jesuits and Plato
      • Raymond Williams Remembered
      • The World View behind the Gulf War
    • Baby Boomers to Blame?
    • Business Success a Mix of Skill and Luck
    • Everyone and Anyone are Rival Simplifications of Human Nature
    • Khrushchev Influenced By Trotskyism
    • Thatcher struck at the roots of Britishness
    • The Left Redefined ‘The Normal’
    • The World as a Global Night-Club
    • Why ‘The Individual’ is a muddled idea
    • Why Trotsky’s politics achieved nothing solid
  • 15) Science
    • 15.1) More science
      • Blond Hair not Racial
      • Cooking Made Us Human
      • Gifts Close to Madness?
      • Letter About Memes
      • Rational Chimps, Hobbits and Starch-Eating Humans
      • The Evolution of Bees
      • Why Motherhood Exists
    • 15.2) Yet More science
      • Fearsome dinosaur-eating mammals (deceased)
      • Superorganisms – Ant Nests and Human Religions
      • The Decline of US Science
      • The Large Hadron Collider in 2008
      • Why Only Some Children Bounce Back From Bad Childhoods
    • And So Say All of Me
    • Big fierce animals are losers
    • Chimp DNA Changed More Than Ours
    • Chimps Are Never Tame
    • Dark Skin, Blue Eyes – the Original Europeans
    • Evolution Prevented By Competition
    • Human Altruism and Psychopathy
    • Is Giftedness Tied to Cultural Values?
    • Mice more evolved than humans
    • Natural Selection as ‘Survival of the Grandkids’
    • Should We Fear Alien Civilisations?
    • The Usefulness of Group Thinking
  • 20) History
    • Civilisation Alley
    • Crusaders, Nomads and Conquistadors
    • Nation States existed long before the Peace of Westphalia
    • Religion and Capitalism
    • Rival British Christianities of the 17th Century
    • Steven Pinker Misunderstands the Enlightenment
    • The ‘White Race’ does not exist
    • The original guerillas of Spain
    • The Seven Months War of 1914 – Part 1
      • The Seven Months War of 1914 – Part 2
      • The Seven Months War of 1914 – Part 3
      • The Seven Months War of 1914 – Part 4
      • The Seven Months War of 1914 – Part 5
    • Why The Ming Sea Voyages Led To Nothing
  • 30) Britain
    • 30.1) More on Britain
      • Ed Miliband’s anti-state legacy
      • How New Labour Emerged from 1970s Labour Leftism
      • Orwell Looking Down on British Workers
      • Poppy Day after the Iraq War
      • The Royal Bank “of Scotland”
      • William Hague and the 2001 General Election
    • Arkwright – How Money Conquered Work
    • Awed by the Amazing Twentieth?
    • Boris Johnson and the ‘Russian’ Nerve Gas Attack
    • British Democracy Began in 1884
    • Fear of Socialism by the Labour Defectors
    • How the British Empire Blighted Britain
    • Labour Party Defectors of 2019
    • Mary Tudor and Elizabeth – almost a beautiful story
    • Minterism: an English Vanity
    • Orwell as a British Imperialist
    • Slavery in the British Empire
    • The Brixton Riots of 1987
    • The Legacy of Tony Blair (2007)
    • The Original Conspiracy Theory (Which Didn’t Include Jews)
    • Why Labour needs Jeremy Corbyn
  • 40) China (including Tibet)
    • 40.1) More on China
      • China rejecting the Western political system
      • Communist China’s 1989 Fight for Survival
      • Reviewing ‘Mao: the Unknown Story’
      • Reviewing Martin Jacques ‘When China Rules The World’
      • The 1989 Tianenmen Crackdown, viewed from 2001
      • The Hainan Island incident of 2001
    • 40.2) Tibet
      • How Tibet Emerged Within the Wider Chinese Power-Political Zone
      • The Strange History of the Dalai Lamas
      • The Tibetan Race Riots of 2008
      • Tibet and International Law
      • Why the West should not be encouraging Tibetan separatism
    • China’s ‘Three Bitter Years’, 1959 to 1961
    • Communist China’s survival after the Tiananmen Crackdown
    • How Mao Modernised Chinese Thinking
  • 45) Fascism & the Two World Wars
    • 45.1) More on Fascism & the World Wars
      • How Britain Planned World War One
      • Orwell on Spain and Britain
      • The British Empire’s Accidental War With Nazi Germany
      • Was the Brest-Litovsk Peace Unreasonable?
      • What Churchill really meant by ‘The Few’
      • Why the Left lost the Spanish Civil War
    • Britain’s 20th century wars
    • British and US Genocide
    • Deaths Caused by Hitler
    • Hitler’s English Inspirers
    • How Churchill was Close to Fascism
    • How Hitler Might Have Had a Victorious Peace
    • How the Tory Party aided Hitler’s Rise
    • Raymond Williams in World War Two
    • The British Empire, the USA and Hitler
    • Why Churchill Admired Mussolini
    • Woodrow Wilson’s Deceptive ’14 Points’
  • 48) Anti-Semitism and Zionism
    • Britain’s Mixed Feelings About Hitler in the 1930s
    • Criminalising Holocaust Denial
    • Fewer Anti-Semites in Labour than Tories
    • Hitler – the 13th Chancellor
    • Israel as a Western Colony
    • Israel Taking Too Much
    • Jews Suffering in the Fall of the British Empire
    • Ken Livingstone Not Antisemitic
    • Market Minorities Across the World
    • Zionism as the Abolition of Jews
    • Zionism’s Suicidal Militancy
  • 50) Globalisation
    • 50.1) More on Globalisation
      • David Hutton and “The State We’re In”
      • Opium City – the story of Hong Kong
      • Rationality and World History
      • Thatcherite Concepts of Classlessness
      • The Anglosphere in 2004
      • The Internet as Secret Policeman’s Friend
      • What ‘Stakeholder’ Means
    • Anti-Globalisation in 2001
    • Are Top Salaries Really Justified?
    • David Miliband on Democracy
    • Degraded Globalisation
    • How Everything Changed in 1979
    • Money and Gun-Power – Globalisation as it is
    • Olympic Sports for the Top Four
    • Reflections on the Start of the Iraq War
    • Russia and the Nerve Gas attack on Sergei Skripal
    • The many versions of democracy
    • The Web Is Always Insecure
    • The World After 9/11
    • Ukraine – Kiev’s Five-Day War Machine
    • What Was The Minimum for Sovereign States?
    • Yeltsin’s Final Election and the Near-Return of the Russian Communists
  • 55) Economics
    • 55.1) The Human Basis of Economics
      • Capitalism Within Culture
      • Capitalist ‘Managerial Science’ is Highly Collectivist
      • Economics is About People, Not Money
      • How we are still paying for fear of Corporatism in the 1970s.
      • The Unnatural Nature of Commerce
    • 55.2) Adam Smith Misled Us
      • Adam Smith and the New Right
      • Adam Smith Faked His Most Famous Claim
      • Anti-Capitalist, For What?
      • Arkwright – How Money Conquered Work
      • Coleridge’s Alternative for the British Economy
      • Corporations Are Against Individualism
      • Economics is About People, Not Money
      • How Real Economic Growth Was Not Based on Adam Smith’s Ideas
      • The Core Falsehood of Capitalist Economics
      • The Mixed Economy Won the Cold War
      • The Original Conspiracy Theory (Which Didn’t Include Jews)
      • William Petty Describing Real Capitalism
    • Adam Smith and the New Right
    • Anti-Capitalist, For What?
    • Capitalism as a theology
    • Coleridge’s Alternative for British Capitalism
    • Ha-Joon Chang’s “23 Things They Don’t Tell You about Capitalism”
    • How National Economies Really Grow
    • How Roosevelt’s New Deal Saved the West
    • Market Winners Rob the Rest of Us
    • Replacing Capitalism by Capitalism
    • The Core Falsehood of Capitalist Economics
    • The errors of New Right economics
    • Trickle-Down Never Happened
    • Where new products really come from
    • Why Profit Needn’t Mean Wealth Creation
    • William Petty Describing Real Capitalism
  • 60) News Archive
    • 1998 to 2009 – Newsnotes
      • 1998 and 1999 Newsnotes
        • 1996 and 1997 – Newsnotes
        • Newsnoted 1999 03
        • Newsnotes 1998 09
        • Newsnotes 1998 12
        • Newsnotes 1999 01
        • Newsnotes 1999 02
        • Newsnotes 1999 04
      • 2000 – 2001 Newsnotes
        • Newsnotes 2000 03
        • Newsnotes 2001 06
        • Newsnotes 2001 10
        • Newsnotes 2001 12
      • 2002 Newsnotes
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        • Newsnotes 2002 11
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      • 2003 Newsnotes
        • Newsnotes 2003 01
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      • 2004 Newsnotes
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      • 2005 Newsnotes
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      • 2006 Newsnotes
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      • 2007 Newsnotes
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      • 2008 Newsnotes
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      • 2009 Newsnotes
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    • 2010 Newsnotes
      • Newsnotes 2010 02
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    • 2011 Newsnotes
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    • 2012 Newsnotes
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    • 2013 Newsnotes
      • Newsnotes 2013 02
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    • 2014 Newsnotes
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    • 2015 Newsnotes
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    • 2016 Newsnotes
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    • 2017 Newsnotes
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    • 2018 Newsnotes
      • News Blog – August 2018
      • News Blog – October 2018
      • Newsnotes 2018 02
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    • 2019 Newsnotes
      • 2019 02 – Blog on Politics
      • 2019 02 – Blog on Science
      • 2019 02 – Blog on Science Fiction & Fantasy
      • Newsnotes 2019 02
      • Newsnotes 2019 03
      • Newsnotes 2019 04
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  • 65) New Right Ideas
    • Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged
    • Errors of Friedrich Hayek
    • Inequality and no ‘Trickle-Down’
    • International Law and the 1990s
    • Milton Friedman and his Errors
    • Models of Democracy
    • Needless Suffering in the 1840s Irish Potato Famine
    • New Right Ideas – Hayek and Ayn Rand
  • 70) USA
    • Bewitched – Television from the 1960s USA
    • Bill Clinton’s Injustice Towards Iraq
    • Both Sides Were Racist in the US Civil War
    • Colin Powell and Vietnam massacres
    • How the USA Shifted Left after World War Two
    • Kennedy Assassination – Two Separate Plots?
    • Obama as Just Another Ineffective President
    • The Space Shuttle, the ‘Right Stuff’ and Chuck Yeager
  • 73) Democracy
    • Democracy and one-party states
    • How John Stuart Mill twisted the idea of liberty
    • Letter on Democracy and Capitalism
  • 75) Other Politics
    • 1950s British War Crimes in Africa
    • Bias in the Nobel Peace Prize
    • Corporations Good, Corporatism Bad?
    • How Ideologies Collapsed Within the Soviet Union and Within Roman Catholicism
    • How Marxism Redefined Human Society
    • How the Vietnam War extended freedom in the West
    • Japan Doing OK
    • Starting the Iraq War (2003)
    • US Reactions to 9/11
    • US Shysterism in Iraqi in 2004
    • Variable Eternal Truths about Serbs and Germans
  • 76) Problems Magazine
    • Agnes Smedley and China’s Red Army
    • Agnes Smedley in the Sino-Japanese War
    • Asocialism – the Core Idea of the New Right
    • Balfour on Cobden and Progress
      • Balfour Against Free Trade
      • Balfour Against Progress?
      • Balfour on Cobden
      • Balfour on Progress
      • Cobden, Corn Laws and World War One
      • Why does Balfour Still Matter?
    • China: Blue Ants and Dangerous Reds
    • China: Nurturing Red Stars
    • Freedom as Misunderstood by Liberals
    • How Chinese Communism Fixed a Broken Society
    • How Mao Greatly Strengthened China
    • In a Hole In a Hole Dwelt a Nothingness
    • Marxism and the Wrong Turning of 1987 to 1995
    • Post-Liberalism
      • Being An Aboriginal European
      • Chinese Politics Working Well
      • Why All Freedom Includes Limits
      • Why Liberal Solutions Are Failing
    • Russian Christianity and the Bolsheviks
    • The End of the Road for New Right Ideas
    • The invention of agriculture and cities
    • The Mixed Economy Won the Cold War
    • The West Fails in Five Civilisations
    • Traditional China Resisted Modernisation
    • What If the Russian Revolution Hadn’t Happened?
    • Why China’s ‘Blue Republic’ Achieved Nothing
    • Gorbachev – Ruining Your Own Country
  • 77) Why Humans Make Religion
    • Celtic, Germanic, Multicultural
    • Edmund Burke’s Beliefs
    • Enoch Powell’s Odd Defence of the Gospels
    • Lovelock’s Gaia Hypothesis as Rehashed Religion
    • Mel Gibson’s ‘The Passion of the Christ’ Twists the Tale
    • Religions as Imperfect Human Understanding
    • Unexpected Things said in the Bible
    • What do we mean by ‘Evil’?
  • 80) Literature
    • 80.1) Literature, Film and Art
      • Book Covers
      • Bulstrode: the Complexities of English Hypocracy
      • Mark Twain, The Unfunny Underside
      • Mary Shelley’s misinterpreted Frankenstein
      • Minterism: an English Vanity
      • Orwell Looking Down on British Workers
    • Bulstrode: the Complexities of English Hypocracy
    • Gollum as Stream-of-Consciousness
    • Mark Twain, The Unfunny Underside
  • 85) Science Fiction & Fantasy
    • 85.1) Tolkien
      • 000) Lord of the Rings, Chapter by Chapter
        • 101) Opening, and A Long-Expected Party
        • 102) The Shadow of the Past
        • 103) Three is Company
        • 104) A Short Cut to Mushrooms
        • 105) A Conspiracy Unmasked
        • 106) The Old Forest
        • 107) In the House of Tom Bombadil
        • 108) Fog on the Barrow-downs
        • 109) At the Sign of The Prancing Pony
        • 110) Strider
        • 111) A Knife in the Dark
        • 112) Flight to the Ford
        • 170) When Would Normal Gold Melt?
        • 180) Gandalf, Rings and Ringwraiths
        • 201) Many Meetings
        • 202) The Council of Elrond
        • 203) The Ring Goes South
        • 204) A Journey in the Dark
        • 205) The Bridge of Khazad-dûm
        • 206) Lothlórien
        • 207) The Mirror of Galadriel
        • 208) Farewell to Lórien
        • 209) The Great River
        • 210) The Breaking of the Fellowship
        • 270) Who Is Tom Bombadil?
        • 301) The Departure of Boromir
        • 302 – The Riders of Rohan
        • 303 – The Uruk-Hai
        • 304 – Treebeard
        • 305 – The White Rider
        • 306 – The King of the Golden Hall
        • 307 – Helm’s Deep
        • 308 – The Road to Isengard
        • 309 – Flotsam and Jetsam
        • 310 – The Voice of Saruman
        • 311 – The Palantir
        • 401 – The Taming of Smeagol
        • 402 – The Passage of the Marshes
        • 407 – Journey to the Cross-roads
        • 408 – The Stairs of Cirith Ungol
        • 409 – Shelob’s Lair
        • 410 – The Choices of Master Samwise
        • 800 – Tying Chapters to Dates
        • 888 – Finding It Hard To Read?
      • A Letter to Private Eye Defending Tolkien
      • Defending Tolkien Against Michael Moorcock’s Condemnation
      • Filming Tolkien
      • Gollum as Stream-of-Consciousness
      • Power and Politics in Tolkien’s Work
      • Tolkien and British History
      • Tolkien and Le Guin
      • Tolkien as understood by Peter Jackson, Brian Sibley and Ralph Bakshi
    • Defending Tolkien Against Michael Moorcock’s Condemnation
    • Eyes and Illusions in Tolkien and Le Guin
    • Home Movies of the Soul
    • How Did Gandalf Find the One Ring?
    • Mary Shelley’s misinterpreted Frankenstein
    • My Own Science Fiction
      • 700) Very Short Stories
        • Becoming Dangerous Yellow
        • Einstein and the Official Christmas Day
        • Fire works, Ice Endures
        • Mistcrap in Flipworld
        • Turning the Year
        • Vindalf’s Gift
      • 710) Stories under 1000 words
        • Third Time Lucky
      • A close transit of a gas giant
      • A fight at the Temple of the Black Cloud
      • How a robotka was left behind on a primitive planet
      • Kindness, Choice and Psychopaths
      • One Walked To War
      • Several Stars Away From Home
      • Sociopaths and Osteopaths
      • The Ashes Of My Brief Existence
      • The Seven Months War of 1914: 1)
        • The Seven Months War of 1914: 2) The Marne and Tannenberg
        • The Seven Months War of 1914: 3) The Christmas Truce and the Bryan Plan
        • The Seven Months War of 1914: 4) Peace Plans and the Problem of Bosnia
        • The Seven Months War of 1914: 5) The Consequences of the 1915 Peace
      • Troy Before Homer
    • Power and Politics in Tolkien’s Work
    • The Harry Potter Books (in 2000)
    • The Moral Void in Star Wars
    • Tolkien and British History
    • Tolkien as understood by Peter Jackson, Brian Sibley and Ralph Bakshi
    • Tolkien in the language of film
  • 90) Who Am I?
    • 90.1) My artwork
      • 95) T-shirt Design
        • My t-shirt design
    • 90.2) My Holiday Photos
    • 90.3) My Humour
      • A Multiverse Excursion
      • Black Hawk Down Snow Dogs
      • Coral alarm dwarfs pact to cut gases
      • What to do with non-BBC Accents
    • 998) From Labour Affairs
      • 2000 to 2009 – Magazine
        • Anti-Capitalist, For What?
        • Bulstrode: the Complexities of English Hypocrisy
        • Does the ‘Right Stuff’ exist?
        • Edmund Burke’s Beliefs
        • Fukuyama on History after the Gulf War
        • Genius and other mental abnormalities
        • How the British Empire Blighted Britain
        • How Tibet Emerged Within the Wider Chinese Power-Political Zone.
        • Is Giftedness Tied to Cultural Values?
        • Money and Gun-Power – Globalisation as it is
        • Needless Suffering in the 1840s Irish Potato Famine
        • Pascal, the Jesuits and Plato
        • Raymond Williams in World War Two
        • Reflections on the Start of the Iraq War
        • Slavery in the British Empire
        • Sociocide – Liberalism’s True History
        • The Anglosphere in 2004 (Anticipating Brexit)
        • The Enlightenment’s Limited Light
        • The many versions of democracy
        • The original guerillas of Spain
        • The Trotskyist Origins of US Neo-Cons
        • The World View behind the 2003 Gulf War
        • Why ‘The Individual’ is a muddled idea
        • Why the Left lost the Spanish Civil War
      • 2019 05 – Magazine
        • 2019 05 – News From France
        • 2019 05 – Newsnotes
        • 2019 05 – Parliamentary Notes
      • 2019 06 – Magazine
        • 2019 06 – News From France
        • 2019 06 – Newsnotes
        • 2019 06 – Parliamentary Notes
      • 2019 07 – Magazine
        • 2019 07 – News From France
        • 2019 07 – Newsnotes
        • 2019 07 – Parliamentary Notes
      • Balfour on Cobden and Progress
        • Balfour Against Free Trade
        • Balfour Against Progress?
        • Balfour on Cobden
        • Balfour on Progress
        • Cobden, Corn Laws and World War One
        • Why does Balfour Still Matter?
      • K) Labour Never Anti-Semitic
      • M) Articles By Topic
      • P) 1987 to 1993
        • 1994 to 1999 – Magazine
          • Celtic, Germanic, Multicultural
          • How to prevent school massacres
          • My Father Raymond Williams
          • Rival British Christianities of the 17th Century
          • Thatcher struck at the roots of Britishness
          • Thatcherite Concepts of Classlessness
          • The World as a Global Night-Club
          • Why I Call It a Global Night-Club
        • Articles By Topic from 1987
        • Magazines 001 to 012
          • Magazine 001 January 1987
            • Life of Anthony Crosland
            • Newsnotes 001
            • Racism as Anti-Racism
            • Reagan’s Star Wars
          • Magazine 002 – April 1987
            • Chinese Anti-Party Protests of 1987
            • Life of R. H. Tawney
            • Newsnotes 002 – April 1987
          • Magazine 003 – July 1987
            • Growing Inequality (noted in mid-1987)
            • Legalising Prostitution
            • Life of Clement Attlee
            • Life of Hugh Dalton
            • Newsnotes 003 – July 1987
          • Magazine 004 – October 1987
            • Newsnotes 004 – October 1987
            • Why Harold Wilson’s Government Achieved Little
            • Why Pornography Does Not Cause Rape
            • Why Socialists Should Accept the British Monarchy
            • Why the West Saved Saddam Hussein in 1987
          • Magazine 005 – January 1988
            • Disbelieving Gorbachev’s Reforms (Jan. 1989)
            • French Peasants in the 1920s (in film)
            • From Stalin Down To Gorbachev
            • Newsnotes 005 – January 1988
            • Socialism and Child Benefit (in 1988)
            • Spycatcher: Fact or Fantasy
          • Magazine 006 – April 1988
            • Left-wing Fear of Corporatism (in 1988)
            • May 1968 in France
            • Newsnotes 006 – April 1988
          • Magazine 007 – July 1988
            • Afghanistan Neglected in 1988
            • Conflicts Between Rival Nationalisms in 1988
            • Newsnotes 007 – July 1988.
            • The 1968 Invasion of Czechoslovakia Doomed the Soviet Union
            • The Effects of Pornography (in 1988)
          • Magazine 008 – October 1988
            • How Thatcher Encouraged Selfishness
            • How Vietnam Won the War But Lost the Peace
            • Newsnotes 008 – October 1988
            • Socialism and the 1688 British Revolution
            • The Bevin Society: Aims and Purposes
          • Magazine 009 – January 1989
            • Demanding a Written British Constitution
            • Newsnotes 009 – January 1989
          • Magazine 010 – March 1989
            • Housing in Britain (in 1989)
            • Newsnotes 010 – March 1989
            • Should the Labour Party Accept Nuclear Weapons?
            • Thatcherism Failing (written March 1989)
            • The British Left Made Thatcher Possible
          • Magazine 011 – May 1989
            • Belfast in the French Revolution (Book Review)
            • Protecting Islam Within Britain (History )
            • Protecting Islamic Faith in Britain
            • The Social Origins of Islam
          • Magazine 012 – July 1989
            • Newsnotes 012 – July 1989
            • Thatcher’s Rise to Power
            • The French Revolution and Its Unstable Politics
            • What Tiananmen 1989 Was Really About
            • When Kinnock Abandoned Unilateralism
        • Magazines 013 to 024
          • Magazine 013 – September 1989
            • Against the ‘Deep Greens’
            • Educational Reform (in 1989)
            • Newsnotes 013 – September 1989
            • The Building Industry (in 1989)
          • Magazine 014 – November 1989.
            • Ancient Welsh Lives of Ordinary People
            • How Pagans Celebrate Christmas
            • Labour 1945 – a success?
            • Looking Back at the Europe Stalin Made
            • Newsnotes 014 – November 1989.
            • Thatcher and Gorbachev as Soulmates
          • Magazine 015 – January 1990
            • Green and Socialist Fit Naturally
            • Jesus of Montreal (film review)
            • Lessons from the 19th century German Customs Union
            • Newsnotes 015 – January 1990
            • Socialism and Vegetarianism
          • Magazine 016 – March 1990
            • British Literati and the Satanic Verses (in 1989)
            • British socialist should see the monarchy as useful
            • Ceausescu’s Fall (as seen in March 1990)
            • Climate Change (a warning from 1990)
            • East Europe in March 1990
            • Gender and Words
            • Mandela in March 1990
            • Newsnotes 016 – March 1990
            • Rail Privatisation Errors Foreseen in 1990
            • Thatcher Not Good for British Capialism
            • Turks and Others (as seen in March 1990)
          • Magazine 017 – May 1990
            • Against Modernist Architecture (in 1990)
            • Americanizing the Labour Party (in 1990)
            • Does Pornography Cause Violence?
            • Letter on the Electricians Union in the 1950s
            • Misunderstanding Stalin
            • Newsnotes 017 – May 1990
            • Thatcher and the Poll Tax Riots
            • The Poll Tax Riots of 1990
          • Magazine 018 – July 1990
            • Democracy and the Communist Manifesto
            • Iraq – a Crisis Before the Kuwait Invasion
            • Morality and Modern Christian Failure
            • Newsnotes 018 – July 1990
            • Racism in London (in 1990)
            • Review of a Biography of Bertrand Russell
            • War Crimes Trials – Only for the Defeated
            • Why US Electronics Succeeded
          • Magazine 019 – September 1990
            • H. G. Wells Vision of Benevolent Dictatorship
            • Interview with Barbara Castle
            • Iraq in 1990 – No Better Alternative Existed
            • Newsnotes 019 – September 1990.
            • Warning Against a Gulf War (in late 1990)
          • Magazine 020 – November 1990
            • Iraq and International Law (late 1990)
            • Labour Must Uphold Full Employment
            • Marx and Engels excluded Parliamentary Democracy from the Communist Manifesto
            • Newsnotes 020 – November 1990
            • Poverty and the Planet
            • Shrewd Remarks by Churchill
            • Star Trek – Rebooted for the 1990s
            • The IRA as criminals or warriors?
            • The Morality of a Gulf War (Nov. 1990)
            • The Moscow Trials of the 1930s
            • The Politics of Bonfire Night
            • The US Teamsters Union
          • Magazine 021 – January 1991
            • Adam Smith Had Alien Social Values
            • Blasphemy for Atheists? Why Bother?
            • Force-Labour Camps in 1930s Britain.
            • How Thatcher Encouraged Welfare Dependency
            • How Thatcher Repeatedly Rewarded IRA Violence
            • Newsnotes 021 – January 1991
            • Poland in 1991
            • Sovereignty and a Single European Currency (in 1991)
            • Tories Claim a Classless Society
            • Warning Against a Gulf War (Jan. 1991)
            • When John Major Succeeded Thatcher
          • Magazine 022 – March 1991
            • Hunter-Gatherers in a World of Machines
            • Iraq Tricked Into Invading Kuwait?
            • Jack Jones, 1970s Trade Union Leader
            • Newsnotes 022 – March 1991
            • Saudi Arabia Encouraged the 1991 Gulf War
            • The First Bad Gulf War (1991)
            • The USA Forced a War Over Kuwait
            • War Without Law (History)
          • Magazine 023 – May 1991
            • Gulf War Lies & Callousness to Arabs
            • Interview with Eric Heffer
            • Newsnotes 023 – May 1991
            • Sicilian Godfathers in Fact and Film
            • The Post-1956 Failure of Pro–Moscow Communism
            • The United Nations and the 1991 Gulf War
          • Magazine 024 – July 1991
            • Against Bush’s New World Order
            • False History for Ireland
            • Mao’s Achievements (as seen in 1991)
            • Newsnotes 024 – July 1991
            • Tribute to Eric Heffer
        • Magazines 025 to 036
          • Magazine 025 – September 1991
            • 1991 Interview with Bill Morris
            • Green Issues and the Labour Party (in 1991)
            • Industrial Democracy – the Lost Chance
            • Labour in the Irish Republic (in 1991)
            • Making peace in South Africa in 1991
            • Neglect of the Mentally Ill (in 1991)
            • Newsnotes 025 – September 1991
            • Serbs and Croats – who was Anti-Nazi?
            • Student Politics Remade the Left (1 of 3)
            • The 1991 Soviet Coup – viewed just afterwards
          • Magazine 026 – November 1991
            • Newsnotes 026 – November 1991
            • Black Sections in the Labour Party (in 1991)
            • Eric Heffer
            • Labour and Student Politics, 2 of 3
            • Serbs in 1991 Allowed to Crush Albanian Kosovo
            • The USA’s New World Order (in 1991)
            • What Ernest Bevin did for Trade Unionism
          • Magazine 027 – January 1992
            • British Government Disrupts the European Union (in 1991)
            • Newsnotes 027 – January 1992
            • The novel ‘How Green Was My Valley’
            • ‘Marxism Today’ smugly winds itself up amidst the ruins of left-wing politics
          • Magazine 028 – March 1992
            • How Charles Haughey Transformed Ireland
            • Newsnotes 028 – March 1992
            • Stalin: Triumph and Tragedy.
          • Magazine 029 – May 1992
            • Labour Needs a Working Class Section
            • Newsnotes 029 – May 1992
            • Student Politics Remade the British Left (3)
            • The Labour Party and Trade Unions
            • Was Modern Industry a Mistake?
          • Magazine 030 – July 1992
            • ‘Bomber’ Harris in 1920s Iraq
            • Darwinism – a Creed Needing Correction
            • Football as Culture (in 1992)
            • Kier Hardie – Labour’s First MP
            • Kleptocracy in Yeltsin’s Russia
            • Newsnotes 030 – July 1992
            • Russia past and present (in 1992)
            • When Marxism Was Made Fashionable (in 1992)
          • Magazine 031 – not yet placed
          • Magazine 032 – not yet placed
          • Magazine 033 – not yet placed
          • Magazine 034 – not yet scanned
          • Magazine 035 – not yet scanned
          • Magazine 036 – not yet scanned
        • Magazines 037 to 048 – Nothing Yet
          • Magazine 037 – not yet scanned
          • Magazine 038 – not yet scanned
          • Magazine 039 – not yet scanned
          • Magazine 040 – not yet scanned
          • Magazine 041 – not yet scanned
          • Magazine 042 – not yet scanned
            • Labour’s Original Clause 4 (Public Ownership)
        • Newsnotes From 1987
        • Policy Statement (from the 1980s)
        • What Is Placed, and Why
      • Post-Liberalism
        • Being An Aboriginal European
        • Chinese Politics Working Well
        • Israel as a Western Colony
        • Why All Freedom Includes Limits
        • Why Liberal Solutions Are Failing
      • Problems Magazine – Older Issues
        • A 1988 view seeing Gorbachev’s economic reforms as failing
        • A 1988 view seeing Islam as a new Ideology Of Progres
        • British Distortions of German Motives in World War One
        • Encouraging Iraqi Rebels in April 1991
        • Gorbachev ‘s Failure, Foreseen in 1990
        • Gorbachev and Islam, reconsidered in 2010
        • How the British Establishment Planned World War One
        • How the Vietnam War extended freedom in the West
        • Looking Back in 1991 at East Germany’s collapse
        • Many Versions of Democracy
        • P1 – 59 – Mary Shelley’s misinterpreted Frankenstein
        • P1 – 60 – The religious roots of Britain’s Industrial Revolution
        • P1 – 62 – Civilisation Alley: A Band of Pre-Industrial Empires from Britain to Sri Lanka
        • P1 – 63 – Why The Ming Sea Voyages Led To Nothing
        • P1 – 65 – Crusaders, Nomads and Conquistadors
        • P1 – 76 – Nation States existed long before the Peace of Westphalia
        • The 1991 Invasion of Iraq – not International Law
        • The Failed Russian Coup of 1991
        • The Irish State in 1990
        • The Soviet Collapse and the Putin Recovery
        • The United Nations as a 20th Century Myth
        • The United Nations War on Iraq in 1991
        • The Vanishing of Leninist Eastern Europe (viewed from 1990)
        • Thoughts on Socialism And Private Property
        • Warning in 1991 Against a War Against Serbia
        • William Cobbett and England’s 1830 ‘Captain Swing’ Rural Riots
        • William Cobbett’s 1831 Trial for Free Speech
    • 999) Backup for Gwydion
      • 00) Main Menu
      • 10) Human Biological History
        • And So Say All of Me
        • Blond Hair Occurred at least Twice
        • Chimp DNA Changed More Than Ours
        • Chimps Are Never Tame
        • Cooking Made Us Human
        • Dark Skin, Blue Eyes – the Original Europeans
        • Gifts Close to Madness?
        • Human Altruism and Psycopathy
        • Letter About Memes
        • Mice more evolved than humans
        • Natural Selection as ‘Survival of the Grandkids’
        • Rational Chimps, Hobbits and Starch-Eating Humans
        • Superorganisms – Ant Nests and Human Religions
        • The ‘White Race’ does not exist
        • The Usefulness of Group Thinking
        • Why Motherhood was Created by Natural Selection
        • Why Only Some Children Bounce Back From Bad Childhoods
      • 15) Other Science
        • Big fierce animals are losers
        • Constellations – a Human Invention
        • Does Physics Find Only Holes Within Holes?
        • Evolution Prevented By Competition
        • Fearsome dinosaur-eating mammals (deceased)
        • Humans On A Cosmic Scale
        • Lovelock’s Gaia Hypothesis as Rehashed Religion
        • Physics and the Nature of Reality
        • Schrodinger and Cheshire Cats
        • Should We Fear Alien Civilisations?
        • The Decline of US Science
        • The Large Hadron Collider in 2008
        • The Unexpected Muon
      • 20) British History
        • Arkwright and the rise of the factory system
        • Being An Aboriginal European
        • Britain’s Mixed Feelings About Hitler in the 1930s
        • British Democracy Began in 1884
        • Coleridge’s Alternative for British Capitalism
        • Edmund Burke’s Beliefs
        • Mary Tudor and Elizabeth – almost a beautiful story
        • Petty Describing Real Capitalism
        • Race & Reformist Rioting – Brixton 1987
        • Rival British Christianities of the 17th Century
      • 25) World History
        • Agnes Smedley and China’s 1930s Red Army
        • Agnes Smedley in the Sino-Japanese War
        • Celtic, Germanic, Multicultural
        • Civilisation Alley
        • Crusaders, Nomads and Conquistadors
        • Deaths Caused by Hitler
        • Hitler – the 13th Chancellor
        • Israel Taking Too Much
        • Nation States existed long before the Peace of Westphalia
        • The invention of agriculture and cities
        • The original guerillas of Spain
        • Traditional China Resisted Modernisation.
        • What If the Russian Revolution Hadn’t Happened?
        • Why The Ming Sea Voyages Led To Nothing
      • 30) Human Dynamics
        • ‘Everyone’ and ‘Anyone’ are Rival Simplifications of Human Nature
        • ASCII – an Unhappy Legacy for Computers
        • Baby Boomers to Blame?
        • Behind every Great Man there’s a Great Ape
        • Business Success a Mix of Skill and Luck
        • Don’t Confuse Mao with Mao
        • Don’t Speak of Cold Misty Mountains
        • Is Giftedness Tied to Cultural Values?
        • Market Minorities Across the World
        • Months in English – an Odd History
        • Must We Have the Profit Motive?
        • Why ‘The Individual’ is a muddled idea
      • 35) Politics
        • Anti-Capitalist, For What?
        • Awed by the Amazing Twentieth?
        • Democracy and one-party states
        • Fear of Socialism by the Labour Defectors
        • How John Stewart Mill twisted the idea of liberty
        • How National Economies Really Grow
        • Thatcher struck at the roots of Britishness
        • The Original Conspiracy Theory
        • What Was The Minimum for Sovereign States?
        • Why Profit Needn’t Mean Wealth Creation
      • 40) Against globalisation
        • Anti-Globalisation in 2001
        • Business Success a Mix of Skill and Luck
        • Chinese Politics Working Well
        • Degraded Globalisation
        • Ha-Joon Chang’s “23 Things They Don’t Tell You about Capitalism”
        • How Everything Changed in 1979
        • How Roosevelt’s New Deal Saved the West
        • How the British Empire Blighted Britain
        • Market Minorities Across the World
        • Money and Gun-Power – Globalisation as it is
        • Thatcher struck at the roots of Britishness
        • The Anglosphere in 2004
        • The Internet as Secret Policeman’s Friend
        • The Left Redefined ‘The Normal’
        • The Unnatural Nature of Commerce
        • The Web Is Always Insecure
        • The World After 9/11
        • The World as a Global Night-Club
        • Why ‘The Individual’ is a muddled idea
        • Why All Freedom Includes Limits
        • Yeltsin’s Final Election and the Near-Return of the Russian Communists
      • 403 – The Black Gate is Closed
      • 404 – Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit
      • 405 – The Window on the West
      • 406 – The Forbidden Pool
      • 45) Why Humans Make Religion
        • Religions as Imperfect Human Understanding
      • 60) About Science Fiction & Fantasy
        • A look at Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
        • Game of Thrones and Other Filmable Fantasy
        • Home Movies of the Soul
        • Priam’s Tragedy and the Wrath of Achilles
        • The Harry Potter Books (in 2000)
        • The Moral Void in Star Wars
      • 80) Holiday Photos
      • About Me
      • Blog on Science
      • Blog on Science Fiction & Fantasy
      • Steven Pinker Misunderstands the Enlightenment
      • Woodrow Wilson’s Deceptive ’14 Points’
    • My DNA results
    • My Father Raymond Williams
  • 95) My Blogs

Policy Statement (from the 1980s)

A lot of this remains relevant, 30 years on.

You can read it here as a web page.  Or scanned, below.

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