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A surveillance society of exclusion?
Read Time:13 Minutes Don’t forget to book your tickets for our upcoming “Case against the WEF” conference this Saturday, featuring radical speakers, thinkers and ideas on a leftist approach to the...
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A Cinematic Model for a Retrospective Film on the Present Drive towards...
Read Time:21 Minutes Let us perform, not a ‘thought experiment’ of the kind that Galileo engaged in when he was trying to anticipate the behaviour of a falling cannon ball in a vacuum in terms of...
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What kind of creatures will stop at nothing?
Read Time:13 Minutes Something has been troubling me since the beginning of what seems to be becoming a protracted crisis of sorts. Recall that etymologically, the word crisis marks that ‘turning...
View ArticleThe Experiential Value of Adversity: What can be Drawn from the Lockdown Era
Read Time:9 Minutes In this piece Bert Olivier explores the value of suffering: both for the individual, and as a catalyst for progress towards real democracy, drawing his inspiration from the...
View ArticleKant’s Perpetual Peace (1795) and the Russia – Ukraine/NATO conflict
Read Time:15 Minutes Quick reminder of Real Left’s Friday 10 November meeting in Islington, London on the ‘Fallout of Lockdowns on the Global South.’ Full details including how to reserve your place...
View ArticleEdward Snowden: an Unsung Hero of Our Time
Read Time:12 Minutes Bert Olivier honours the courage of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and argues for the importance of the democratic right to freedom from government surveillance. It happens too...
View ArticleWhere does Putin stand in relation to the attempted global coup d’etat?
Read Time:10 Minutes For a long time now since the start of the Ukraine conflict in 2022, various signs have appeared which have suggested to me that – contrary to what I had assumed to be the case...
View ArticleWhat do the so-called ‘elites’ really think of ordinary people?
Read Time:11 Minutes One sometimes wonders whether the so-called ‘elites’ – whom I would rather describe as parasites – have any sense of ethical or moral propriety. The answer, I believe is somewhat...
View ArticleAvoiding the Issue at our Peril
Read Time:12 Minutes Bert Olivier resolves to start choosing truthfulness over keeping the peace at every opportunity. Also published on Real Left’s Substack. I recently decided that the time is past...
View ArticleRussian Impressions
Read Time:13 Minutes The Kant 300 Conference and Reflections on life in Kaliningrad. Also published on Real Left’s substack. Please consider subscribing if you haven’t already. My wife and I are in...
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