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  • This is what we’ve been waiting for

    This is what we’ve been waiting for

    Hastings Demands Better is one of a series of meetings being held in the region by the South Eastern TUC, leading up to the big demo against the cost-of-living crisis, to be held in London on 18th June. Yes, we gather to to tell the government we cannot and will not put up with any […]

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    May 27, 2022
    activism, Corbyn, economics, Election, Hastings, Labour, media, NHS, Politics, Uncategorized, Unite, women
    Bella Fashola, CAP Debt Advice, Chruchill, CWU, Daily Mirror, Darren Smith, Dave Ward, Diane Ebanks, GMB, Hastings Borough Council, Hastings Demands Better, Hastings Foodbank, Hastings Green Party, Jo Grady, John Wales, Kevin Maguire, Max O'Donnell-Savage, NEU, Nick Warren, Paul Barnett, Paul Jones Unison, PCS, Phil Clarke, RMT, Sam Gurney, TUC, UCU, Unite
  • Left again…

    Left again…

    The young Eleanor Marx persuaded her whole family to join her in attending the huge and enthusiastic demo in London in support of the Fenians. ‘Disobedience to tyrants is a duty to God’ said one of the placards. The Marx family sang the Marseillaise.  They all ‘danced with joy’ when they heard of the election […]

    kaygreen10

    May 26, 2022
    Uncategorized, Hastings, Politics, activism
    Jeremy Corbyn, Labour Party, Ian Sinclair, FiLiA, eleanor Marx, The March That Shook Blair, Hastings Demands Better, Dave Ward, CWU
  • Terrible Fish

    Terrible Fish

    My blog ‘About’ Page descriptor says that I intend to write about ‘books, politics and the terrible fish.’ When I was setting up the blog site, and came to the box that said something like ‘summarise what this site is about’ I gave it about ten seconds thought. For those in the dark, Sylvia Plath […]

    kaygreen10

    May 25, 2022
    activism, women, prejudice
    Ricky Gervais, Sylvia Plath, Terrible Fish
  • Owen Jones and the Venerable Beard

    Owen Jones and the Venerable Beard

    In which Owen Jones struggles with a difficult idea: Chomsky reminds Jones of the hard road women have had to get their basic rights acknowledged. As you can see from the eyebrows, this is hard going for Jones, who still hasn’t grasped even the precariousness of his own history, let alone women’s – and has […]

    kaygreen10

    May 24, 2022
    activism, media, Politics, prejudice, Uncategorized, women
    Dennis Kavenagh, Gender Recognition Act, Noam Chomsky, Owen Jones, Ricky Gervais
  • The nature of male privilege

    The nature of male privilege

    The least successful members of a privileged group tend to be the most belligerent maintainers of that privilege. It’s their dream, their lottery ticket. That’s why many a doorstepping socialist has fallen by the wayside when trying to tell impoverished white males they are privileged. Asking angry people to rise above a lifetime of poverty […]

    kaygreen10

    May 24, 2022
    activism, women
    Nicholas Davies, Amber Heard, Johnny Depp, Matilda Simon, British Communist Party
  • Please have pity on the PWATTDWLRWPTDSE

    Please have pity on the PWATTDWLRWPTDSE

    I’ve had some grumbles from the People Who Are Trying To Destroy Women’s Legal Rights Whilst Pretending To Do Something Else. They say I’m blogging far too much, and posting my stuff about the place far too much. Well I would not want to annoy the PWATTDWLRWPTDSE, and looking back, I do seem to have […]

    kaygreen10

    May 21, 2022
    women
  • The Tom Watsons of Feminism

    The Tom Watsons of Feminism

    ***long read for the weekend (with, as requested, apology to those who work weekends – long read for your day orf, if you’re lucky enough to get one?)*** This post is most definitely for lefties, but if you’re a feminist thinking WTF is going on with all this lefty misogyny and why are they calling […]

    kaygreen10

    May 20, 2022
    activism, Politics, Uncategorized, women
    Black Pampers, Fourth Wave, Gender Recognition Act, Jeremy Corbyn, Julie Bindel, Labour Party, marxist feminism, Overton Window, radical feminism, Second Wave, Third Wave, Tom Watson
  • Never let a bully win

    Never let a bully win

    I was told when I signed up as a Labour Party officer that I should ‘never let a bully win’. I looked at the situation in the Party and agreed that it was true. The evidence was manifold. We lefties inherited an organisation that was impossible to steer because it had, for several decades, been […]

    kaygreen10

    May 19, 2022
    activism, Corbyn, Labour
    Debbie Hayton, Harold Wilson, Jeremy Corbyn, Labour Party, Transgender Trend
  • To speak or not to speak?

    To speak or not to speak?

    Have the May council elections given women an answer to that dilemma? Surrounded by bullies, propagandists, and comfortable males who can’t be bothered to understand, women have had a hard job working out when or whether to raise women’s issues. There was much discussion in the lead up to the May elections as to whether […]

    kaygreen10

    May 16, 2022
    activism, Election, Hastings, Labour, Politics, Uncategorized, women
    #RespectMySex, Cardiff City Council, Hastings Borough Council, Kim Forward, Mark Drakeford, Ruby Cox, Sue Lent
  • Are we being honest, yet?

    Are we being honest, yet?

    ***Long read*** I have two blog posts that I shut down a few years back, because members of my Labour Party Branch were in danger of dying of apoplexy. That’s a joke okay – I know people do that in Victorian novels when they get very upset but… you know, even as a child reading […]

    kaygreen10

    May 14, 2022
    Politics, prejudice, Uncategorized, women
    Allison Bailey, gender-benders, Harry Potter, Helen Joyce, Holly Smith, Inside Higher Education, Labour Party, Maya Forstater, Miranda Yardley, Mr Menno, UCU
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