Channel energy into socialism
Do you embrace the ‘Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness’ like Keats? Or does autumn fill you with dread as communications keep arriving announcing energy price rises? Darker and colder days mean using more expensive energy that you can’t afford.
According to the Resolution Foundation the number of customers falling behind on their electricity bills with no repayment plan in place has more than tripled between 2012 and 2024 to over one million. Gas customers falling behind on their gas bill shows a similar increase. The size of the debt has also considerably increased.
Eating or heating? When it gets chilly energy poverty can produce serious health issues. Capitalism doesn’t care. Capitalism cares only for profit and more profit. Make capitalism history.
World Socialist Radio – A Wealth of Hallucinations
From the September 2025 issue of The Socialist Standard:
This article warns of the growing crisis posed by generative AI’s propensity for “hallucinations”—fabrication of false or harmful content presented as fact. It highlights alarming examples, including a case where Google’s AI falsely informed council-house tenants they could be evicted to make way for asylum seekers—dismissed by a housing solicitor as “horseshit of the highest order.” It also discusses Musk’s AI, Grok, which—especially in its “spicy” mode—can generate explicit deepfake imagery of celebrities without prompting. The piece critiques the Trump administration’s deregulatory stance on these technologies, despite widespread calls from U.S. states and even tech leaders for safeguards. Concerns escalate when chatbots are reported to advise children on dangerous behaviours like abusing substances, hiding eating disorders, or drafting suicide letters. OpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman, acknowledges a deeper problem of “emotional overreliance” among young users, who may defer critical life decisions to AI, a phenomenon he finds deeply troubling.
https://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/world-socialist-radio/
Germany and France war preparations
I’m aching in this hospital bed
Comes from where this squirming dread?
I pray that soon I’ll rise and wear the coat of blue
Out to the station then ride three stops to you
Far In the killing fields my mates lie dead
All of the cities coloured red
I’m burning in this fiery bed
Why are we fighting? Roger said
To save the sheep from being led
Too late! too late! the bovids cried
We trusted them, They lied! They lied!
The probing eyes fly overhead
Visions crowding through my mind
Unthinking blind following blind
I ponder, was this not designed
to seal the fate of most mankind?
how quickly sheep become resigned
to sheepishly become confined
I lie expiring in this bed
do we still resist I said?
I hear from here the jackboots thunder
this empire lasts how long I wonder?
Here in this ground undisturbed
nothings moving nothing stirs
No sound I make heard by the herd
The dead cry out, This is absurd !
Who is left to spread the word ?
That might’s not right
An eye for an eye
make the whole world
lose its sight.
The drip, drip, drip of propaganda by the exploitative minority into the collective consciousness of the capitalism facilitating majority continues with the aim of preparing people for military conflict with a nuclear weapons power.
‘Germany’s armed forces are planning how to treat a potential 1,000 wounded troops per day should a large-scale conflict between NATO and Russia break out.
Moscow has rejected any suggestions it might be preparing for a war with the Western military alliance, but the latest incursions of Russian jets and drones into NATO territory have raised fears of escalation.
Germany’s Surgeon General Ralf Hoffmann said the number of wounded troops in a potential conflict would depend on the intensity of battle and which military units were involved.
‘Realistically, we are talking about a figure of around 1,000 wounded troops per day,’ he said in an interview.
European nations, including their medical services, have been stepping up preparations for potential conflict with Moscow in the wake of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Europe’s biggest conflict since World War Two.’
‘French hospitals have been ordered to make preparations for an imminent war in Europe as Germany says it is on alert for Russia’s military drills.
France’s ministryof health has told health bodies across the country to prepare for a possible ‘major engagement’ by March 2026, according to documents obtained by Le Canard Enchaîné.
The French government is predicting a scenario where the nation would become a supporting state that has the capacity to take a massive number of wounded soldiers from France and other European nations.
The order aims to ‘anticipate, prepare and respond to the health needs of the population while integrating the specific needs of defence in the health field’.
The ministry of health added: ‘Among the risks identified, therefore, is the hypothesis of a major engagement where the health issue would consist of taking care of a potentially high influx of victims from abroad
Germany and France war preparations
I’m aching in this hospital bed
Comes from where this squirming dread?
I pray that soon I’ll rise and wear the coat of blue
Out to the station then ride three stops to you
Far In the killing fields my mates lie dead
All of the cities coloured red
I’m burning in this fiery bed
Why are we fighting? Roger said
To save the sheep from being led
Too late! too late! the bovids cried
We trusted them, They lied! They lied!
The probing eyes fly overhead
Visions crowding through my mind
Unthinking blind following blind
I ponder, was this not designed
to seal the fate of most mankind?
how quickly sheep become resigned
to sheepishly become confined
I lie expiring in this bed
do we still resist I said?
I hear from here the jackboots thunder
this empire lasts how long I wonder?
Here in this ground undisturbed
nothings moving nothing stirs
No sound I make heard by the herd
The dead cry out, This is absurd !
Who is left to spread the word ?
That might’s not right
An eye for an eye
make the whole world
lose its sight.
The drip, drip, drip of propaganda by the exploitative minority into the collective consciousness of the capitalism facilitating majority continues with the aim of preparing people for military conflict with a nuclear weapons power.
‘Germany’s armed forces are planning how to treat a potential 1,000 wounded troops per day should a large-scale conflict between NATO and Russia break out.
Moscow has rejected any suggestions it might be preparing for a war with the Western military alliance, but the latest incursions of Russian jets and drones into NATO territory have raised fears of escalation.
Germany’s Surgeon General Ralf Hoffmann said the number of wounded troops in a potential conflict would depend on the intensity of battle and which military units were involved.
‘Realistically, we are talking about a figure of around 1,000 wounded troops per day,’ he said in an interview.
European nations, including their medical services, have been stepping up preparations for potential conflict with Moscow in the wake of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Europe’s biggest conflict since World War Two.’
‘French hospitals have been ordered to make preparations for an imminent war in Europe as Germany says it is on alert for Russia’s military drills.
France’s ministryof health has told health bodies across the country to prepare for a possible ‘major engagement’ by March 2026, according to documents obtained by Le Canard Enchaîné.
The French government is predicting a scenario where the nation would become a supporting state that has the capacity to take a massive number of wounded soldiers from France and other European nations.
The order aims to ‘anticipate, prepare and respond to the health needs of the population while integrating the specific needs of defence in the health field’.
The ministry of health added: ‘Among the risks identified, therefore, is the hypothesis of a major engagement where the health issue would consist of taking care of a potentially high influx of victims from abroad
Germany and France war preparations
I’m aching in this hospital bed
Comes from where this squirming dread?
I pray that soon I’ll rise and wear the coat of blue
Out to the station then ride three stops to you
Far In the killing fields my mates lie dead
All of the cities coloured red
I’m burning in this fiery bed
Why are we fighting? Roger said
To save the sheep from being led
Too late! too late! the bovids cried
We trusted them, They lied! They lied!
The probing eyes fly overhead
Visions crowding through my mind
Unthinking blind following blind
I ponder, was this not designed
to seal the fate of most mankind?
how quickly sheep become resigned
to sheepishly become confined
I lie expiring in this bed
do we still resist I said?
I hear from here the jackboots thunder
this empire lasts how long I wonder?
Here in this ground undisturbed
nothings moving nothing stirs
No sound I make heard by the herd
The dead cry out, This is absurd !
Who is left to spread the word ?
That might’s not right
An eye for an eye
make the whole world
lose its sight.
The drip, drip, drip of propaganda by the exploitative minority into the collective consciousness of the capitalism facilitating majority continues with the aim of preparing people for military conflict with a nuclear weapons power.
‘Germany’s armed forces are planning how to treat a potential 1,000 wounded troops per day should a large-scale conflict between NATO and Russia break out.
Moscow has rejected any suggestions it might be preparing for a war with the Western military alliance, but the latest incursions of Russian jets and drones into NATO territory have raised fears of escalation.
Germany’s Surgeon General Ralf Hoffmann said the number of wounded troops in a potential conflict would depend on the intensity of battle and which military units were involved.
‘Realistically, we are talking about a figure of around 1,000 wounded troops per day,’ he said in an interview.
European nations, including their medical services, have been stepping up preparations for potential conflict with Moscow in the wake of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Europe’s biggest conflict since World War Two.’
‘French hospitals have been ordered to make preparations for an imminent war in Europe as Germany says it is on alert for Russia’s military drills.
France’s ministryof health has told health bodies across the country to prepare for a possible ‘major engagement’ by March 2026, according to documents obtained by Le Canard Enchaîné.
The French government is predicting a scenario where the nation would become a supporting state that has the capacity to take a massive number of wounded soldiers from France and other European nations.
The order aims to ‘anticipate, prepare and respond to the health needs of the population while integrating the specific needs of defence in the health field’.
The ministry of health added: ‘Among the risks identified, therefore, is the hypothesis of a major engagement where the health issue would consist of taking care of a potentially high influx of victims from abroad
Germany and France war preparations
I’m aching in this hospital bed
Comes from where this squirming dread?
I pray that soon I’ll rise and wear the coat of blue
Out to the station then ride three stops to you
Far In the killing fields my mates lie dead
All of the cities coloured red
I’m burning in this fiery bed
Why are we fighting? Roger said
To save the sheep from being led
Too late! too late! the bovids cried
We trusted them, They lied! They lied!
The probing eyes fly overhead
Visions crowding through my mind
Unthinking blind following blind
I ponder, was this not designed
to seal the fate of most mankind?
how quickly sheep become resigned
to sheepishly become confined
I lie expiring in this bed
do we still resist I said?
I hear from here the jackboots thunder
this empire lasts how long I wonder?
Here in this ground undisturbed
nothings moving nothing stirs
No sound I make heard by the herd
The dead cry out, This is absurd !
Who is left to spread the word ?
That might’s not right
An eye for an eye
make the whole world
lose its sight.
The drip, drip, drip of propaganda by the exploitative minority into the collective consciousness of the capitalism facilitating majority continues with the aim of preparing people for military conflict with a nuclear weapons power.
‘Germany’s armed forces are planning how to treat a potential 1,000 wounded troops per day should a large-scale conflict between NATO and Russia break out.
Moscow has rejected any suggestions it might be preparing for a war with the Western military alliance, but the latest incursions of Russian jets and drones into NATO territory have raised fears of escalation.
Germany’s Surgeon General Ralf Hoffmann said the number of wounded troops in a potential conflict would depend on the intensity of battle and which military units were involved.
‘Realistically, we are talking about a figure of around 1,000 wounded troops per day,’ he said in an interview.
European nations, including their medical services, have been stepping up preparations for potential conflict with Moscow in the wake of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Europe’s biggest conflict since World War Two.’
‘French hospitals have been ordered to make preparations for an imminent war in Europe as Germany says it is on alert for Russia’s military drills.
France’s ministryof health has told health bodies across the country to prepare for a possible ‘major engagement’ by March 2026, according to documents obtained by Le Canard Enchaîné.
The French government is predicting a scenario where the nation would become a supporting state that has the capacity to take a massive number of wounded soldiers from France and other European nations.
The order aims to ‘anticipate, prepare and respond to the health needs of the population while integrating the specific needs of defence in the health field’.
The ministry of health added: ‘Among the risks identified, therefore, is the hypothesis of a major engagement where the health issue would consist of taking care of a potentially high influx of victims from abroad
SPGB Meeting TONIGHT 26 September 1930 (GMT +1) ZOOM
LIVING WITHOUT MONEY.
What does it mean and how to get there?”
Friday 26 September
1930 (GMT+1)
ZOOM
To join the meeting click https://zoom.us/j/7421974305
Socialist Sonnet No. 204
History Classes
History is a chronicle of change,
Incessant, of both advance and delay.
Rome wasn’t built, nor was it lost, in a day:
Became, then went, once kings could arrange
Affairs, until their castles also fell
When commerce and capital promoted
Themselves and the world became devoted
To their interest. Although it might feel
The way things are must always remain so,
The few usurping the wealth made by many,
With vital human needs needing money
To be satisfied. Yet all this can go
Should the majority say, ‘It’s ended!’
Capitalism can be transcended.
D. A.
Capitalism damages your health
The World Bank Blog notes that in 2024 32 per cent of the world population, about 2.6 billion people, could not afford to eat a healthy diet. The largest number is in Sub-Saharan Africa, but North America and Europe also had many affected by their inability to afford decent nourishment.
Fill a petrol-powered car with diesel and you will damage the engine. Humans who are forced, through poverty, to eat unhealthy food because it is low cost will also impair their health and well-being.
Under capitalism food is a commodity produced to profit the companies in charge of its production. Socialism, with free access to food, will provide quality sustenance for all.