My view is that Laurel & Hardy exhibit a generally ‘progressive’ attitude to life that remained extraordinarily ‘aloof’of the quite rampant racism of their day, whilst remaining, in many ways, very much a product of the times within which they lived.
Tag: UK
UK: London Underground Fight [28.04.2014] at Aldgate East Tube! (15.11.2016)
An academic friend of mine (who monitors levels of street violence in the USA and UK), drew my attention to this disturbing footage. It appears to show an elderly Chinese man involved in an altercation with a young man on London’s Tube network (the District Line – to be precise).
Michael Moore in Dreamland
Michael Moore is a bourgeois enemy of the people who uses his immense ‘capitalist’ wealth to ‘play’ at the idea of being ‘Socialist’. In this regard, he represents a typical bourgeois barrier to the establishment of genuine Socialism in the US, that will not come through the current status quo
How the EU Killed the British NHS
The British NHS has gone forever – due to EU legislation.
Marx Oration – Highgate Cemetery 15.3.15
Hundreds gathered on a cold and wet March day in 2015, at Highgate Cemetery (North London), around the grave of Karl Marx (1818-1883), to hear
Why the Odious Tories Might Win the 2015 UK General Election
It is a remarkable manipulation of State media the likes of which has not been seen since Adolf Hitler’s rise to power in the early 1930’s. The point of this exclusion from the media of working class protest is to allow the middle and upper classes (who have received generous tax-cuts at the expense of deprived benefit recipients) to continue to live in the privileged and opulent lifestyles unencumbered by issues of conscience. With such social devastation it is difficult to envisage how or why the Tories could win the next general election, but in a very real sense, their complete control and manipulation of the media makes it very likely when UK voting patterns are taken into account.
SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR) 