Category: activism
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Today I helped to destroy our planet
I’m sorry. It’s just the way the day went. It was gone 7pm, and I needed to be back home, having bought two pillows. It was Morrison’s or nothing, and all they had that I could afford were microfibre bottles – I mean pillows. Those ones made out of ‘recycled’ plastic bottles. They boast about…
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Wishing there was something you could do about the Labour Party?
I suffer from NADA (Not Another Damned Acronym) Syndrome, which is probably why it took me a while to notice, and get curious about, OCISA. When you find out it stands for “Organise Corbyn Inspired Socialist Alliance” you’ll probably do what I did – roll your eyes sadly and move on – but if an…
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Don’t blame the teachers – or the kids – or the parents
Finally, the UK is waking up to the fact that something’s going badly wrong in our schools. As the media volley the kid-who-identified-as-a-cat back and forth, some saying it’s a myth, others saying it’s happening all over the country, people are finally realising we have a problem, and beginning to understand what that problem is.…
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You can beat big money at its own game
***UPDATE*** Thanks to REEL NEWS for getting the film out there (no thanks to the festival organisers) I guess it’s too late to run a campaign for people to cancel their tickets to Glastonbury but how about this…? They were scared by the power of this… Click here for a clip of the Big Glastonbury…
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The inevitable end-game of identity politics
It takes a long time for most of us to work out what ‘identity politics’ is, and why it matters. The main reason it’s important is that it can completely blind-side people seeking socialism. It can and does lead them into aggressively supporting what are in effect right wing, individualist ideas. In short, it’s another…
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Here’s hope for the ex-Labour many
The loss of the 2019 general election, Laura Pidcock losing her seat, Jeremy Corbyn’s resignation and then the inability of the left to come up with a credible alternative leadership candidate left many anti-austerity activists, those seeking ‘a better, kinder politics’ utterly bereft. Things have picked up a bit with the #CostofLivingCrisis and #DemandBetter campaigns…
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What do junior doctors deserve?
Junior doctors get what looks to me like a very generous salary when they’ve been working their ***ses orf for about eight years in our desperately overstretched NHS. Just how hard would you work, just how much overtime would you accept, just how much life-or-death responsibility would you bear, in a job that would pay…
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How to get to football matches and pop concerts, and take the train to work
As you probably know, if you saw the RMT’s Mick Lynch on TV this morning, yet again having to answer those questions about ‘why are you inconveniencing people trying to get to football matches, pop concerts, or to work?’, the powers that be are still successfully dragging out disputes over whether or not public service…
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Is party politics beyond redemption?
When even the best Labour councillors are hamstrung by a dysfunctional Party and Yellow is yet another shade of Blue — then you find Greens are not necessarily good for you… I joined a proudly socialist CLP in 2016, when we all saw the Party moving to the left. I was Vice-Chair in the 2017…
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Ithaka: the disaster that slipped past you
I watched Ithaka last night. I hardly ever watch telly, and like many people these days, when I watch a film, I’m generally doing at least two other things at the same time. Himself watched it too. We sat side-by-side, and watched in silence, and in the two interruptions for adverts (it was on ITV)…
Kay Green 