This is an edited version of Will McMahon’s eight-minute roundtable introduction at the recent TAS Meeting on Palestine. You can find Ed Pott’s and Nick Wrack’s verbal introductions at the start of the meeting on the TAS Youtube channel. What is happening in Palestine is the kind of colonial exclusionary Continue Reading
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All out for the “Flood the Streets” march in London on Sunday, 3 November.
On October 17, the BBC reported on United Utilities repeatedly dumping millions of gallons of raw sewage illegally into Lake Windermere between 2021 and 2023 and failing to report most of it. It now seems a week never goes by without some part of the media reporting another calamity involving water privatisation. Continue Reading
Starmer: Undertaker of the post-war settlement
This is an edited version of an introduction given by Will McMahon at the Talking About Socialism online meeting of September 30th 2024. The context Where does Britain stand as Starmer’s team takes its initial steps in Government? It continues its long decline as an imperialist power. A Continue Reading
From eco-socialist talking to eco-socialist action. Come to the Ecosocialist Conference 2024
Talking about Socialism has focused on the environmental crisis since launching in 2023. TAS supporters helped organise the first Ecosocialism Conference held in London in 2023. The conference brought together people who responded to a conference call stating clearly that the only realistic solution to the environmental crisis was to Continue Reading
Money which begets money – the class struggle in your kitchen
While capitalism has been busy for centuries poisoning the air we breathe, the land we walk on and the waters we swim and fish in, it is only very recently that it properly turned its profit-seeking attention to colonising our physiology by ensuring we become addicted to a form of Continue Reading
A socialist response to Labour’s victory
This is an edited version of Will McMahon’s introduction to the Talking About Socialism event on Monday 8 July, 2024 It has not been edited to reflect Labour’s first month in Government. You can watch the event on YouTube What was my take on the election results? While Labour had Continue Reading
Climate catastrophe and how to confront it.
This article is based on Will McMahon’s introduction to the 15 April Talking About Socialism event which you can watch here March 2024 was the tenth straight month where average global monthly temperatures hit a record high. Climate scientists are now considering whether there has been an unexpected acceleration in Continue Reading
Ukraine war two years on – who are the winners and losers?
This article is based on Will McMahon’s introduction to the 19 February Talking About Socialism event which you can watch here. Between the last quarter of 2022 and March 2023 over 60,000 Ukrainian troops were given training in NATO countries, and accompanying military supplies, in preparation for the Spring Offensive Continue Reading
Building TAS in 2024
This is a revised version of an introduction given by Will McMahon at the ‘Talking About Socialism – from a Marxist Point of view’ online discussion given on Monday 8 January 2024 to take account of events taking place in the following week Building Talking About Socialism – from a Continue Reading
The rise of the far-right in Europe
This article is based on the notes for an introduction given by Will on 2nd October which, along with the discussion afterwards, can be watched on YouTube: The rise of the far-right. Over the last two decades we have see the growth of far-right parties across the continent of Europe. Continue Reading