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Financial meltdown soon – prepare for revolution (2nd November 2007) – An analysis of problems on the world’s stock markets, the British economy and recent events in British politics. This document discusses the financial meltdown that is coming and what left-wing activists should do to take advantage of the situation, ensuring that there is some sort of revolution (either of an ethical capitalist or socialist nature). The issue of forcing rich people and companies to pay tax is discussed.
Barclays Bank will go bankrupt! (4th November 2007) – Another analysis of problems with the stock markets, predicting that a number of banks including Barclays will go bust in the very near future. It reveals information leaked in the Herald newspaper that Barclays received emergency funding from the Bank of England in the summer, before Northern Rock. This document mentions several UK and US-based banks which appear to have financial difficulties.
The following old documents and leaflets, which have significant flaws due to the effect of psychiatric medication that I have been forced to take as a political prisoner (or had withdrawal symptoms also badly affecting my thought processes) as explained in the page on Disability & Mental Health, are also accessible from this website:
A dual strategy for achieving socialism (18th June 2007) – An analysis of the Scottish parliamentary election results and a dual strategy for the way forward (of creating explicitly revolutionary socialist, but not Marxist, parties outside the traditional parties and encouraging socialists to join main parties anticipating future splits). The strategy I proposed in this document is inferior to the above document on financial meltdown.
How our brains help or hinder the struggle for socialism (version 7, 9th March 2007) – This document contains a post-Marxist analysis of how the brain works, about the struggle between GOOD and BAD forces in people’s (and other mammals’ and birds’) brains, reflected in conspiratorial organisations like MI5 and the CIA, political parties and all other organisations in society. Note: This document is superceded by the
Good Intentions Manifesto, which contains a more up-to-date analysis of how society works and is intended both as a guide to well-intentioned people and to encourage such people to get involved in the
Socialism and Conspiracies (version 5) – my definitive document about how conspiratorial organisations in society work.
My Socialist Response to Brown’s 2005 Budget (version 2, 26th March 2005) – This document, which I have updated slightly since I wrote it originally on the 18th of March two days after the Budget, covers many of the issues involved in the general election campaign.
Oppose private detention centres and prisons – An article I wrote for the Scottish Socialist Voice reviewing two BBC TV programmes shown in March 2005 about phyiscal abuse and racism in detention centres for asylum seekers and other immigrants facing deportation, and about problems in private prisons including officers allowing prisoners to deal in hard drugs and not always carrying out checks of prisoners on suicide watch. In both cases, the blame was laid at the running of these services for profit.
The following very old document, written before I received any psychiatric medication, is accessible from this website:
Prospects for a revival of left reformism – A draft of the most important part of my speech at the 1998 European School of the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI). I argued that revolutionaries would not get overrun by reformists in the Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) that leaders of Scottish Militant Labour were arguing for the formation of. Some of the arguments are still relevant today.
