London Progressive Journal

A poem by Geoffrey Heptonstall... [read more]

A poem by Kay Channon... [read more]

In what is being called the worst financial crisis since 1929, the US stock market has lost a third of its value in the space of a month, wiping out all of its gains of the last three years... [read more]

Looking back over the decades as I approach my 78th birthday, I marvel at the recurring and evolving attempts to address the issues that affect us all... [read more]

Here in the UK, the British Academy of Film and Television has just presented the Bafta awards, and yes, as an elected lifetime member I’m one of the several thousand who vote for the nominees.... [read more]

A recent study shows that citizens in the Western democracies are dissatisfied with the way they are governed... [read more]

The documentary movie "For Sama" has won a host of awards in Europe and North America.... [read more]

I belong to England, but that England is not the self-important, arrogant and ill-informed England of Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage, the European Research Group or Tommy Robinson and the English Defence League... [read more]

Although the repo market is little known to most people, it is a $1-trillion-a-day credit machine, in which not just banks but hedge funds and other “shadow banks” borrow to finance their trades... [read more]

I may be alone - but Palestine lives in me awaiting liberation through your selective humanity.... [read more]

As I inch toward my 78th birthday it’s not just frustrating, but inexplicable why the number of my age should provoke dismissal, even disdain... [read more]

The Green New Deal resolution that was introduced into the U.S. House of Representatives in February hit a wall in the Senate, where it was called unrealistic and unaffordable... [read more]

Jeremy Corbyn lost the election but one of his political friends, the progressive Mexican leader named Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, has been in power for one year. He is carrying out the plans and priorities described in his 2018 book "New Hope for Mexico"... [read more]

A essay on the politics and ideas of Socialism.... [read more]

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan called Paul Volcker “the most effective chairman in the history of the Federal Reserve.... [read more]

When I was very young there was an old lady who lived down the road in a house without electricity.... [read more]

On 20 December 2017, then Minister of Economic Development Valdrin Lluka signed an agreement with ContourGlobal, an American company, to build “Kosova e Re”, a 500 MW coal-fired power plan... [read more]

A poem by Simon Cockle... [read more]

The only sign that the camp existed is a cemetery where more than 8,000 victims of various nationalities are buried. ... [read more]

A prosperous and Westernised Iran took a giant step backwards in 1979... [read more]

A poet believes in poetry, not only his work but the genre itself and all that is contained within the word poetry, the making of words that mean more than words can say... [read more]