By Daniel Margrain

In 1978, the Australian social scientist, Alex Carey, pointed out that the twentieth century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: “the growth of democracy; the growth of corporate power; and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy.” The corporations that now dominate much of the domestic and global economies recognize the need to manipulate the public through media propaganda by manufacturing their consent in order to defend their interests against the forces of democracy. This is largely achieved as a result of coordinated mass campaigns that combine sophisticated public relations techniques.

The result is the media underplay, or even ignore, the economic and ideological motivations that drive the social policy decisions and strategies of governments’. Sharon Beder outlines the reasoning behind the coordinated political…

Tuesday 8^th November 2016

@ Islington Mill, James Street, Salford

Speaker: James Walsh

“Thanks to the Salford TUC & John Catterall for hosting this event, Happy 150^th Birthday to the Salford TUC, I have worked out that my Great Grandparents arrived in Salford 140 years ago, so my family have been knocking around Salford almost as long as the TUC

A big thank you also to all the speakers at the event today, we have heard some superb thought provoking speeches on a range of subjects such as climate change, floods, renewable energy projects, capitalism, the One Million Climate Jobs campaign, Greenpeace & the anti-fracking movement

I’m here to speak about EcoTourism, so the first thing I would say is to have a fully functioning global EcoTourism industry you need to have stability & peace, therefore, I feel that the people should be demanding that in the Paris…