Category: activism
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In which someone handed me a mic while I was feeling quite cross
This is the story of our NHS and me. I’m telling it because it’s also the story of our NHS and you, unless you are very, very rich… in which case I hope you will read this, too… I’m surviving. Like most people, I can’t see the result of any of my life’s work in…
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Model response to a dilemma for women in the left-right storm
It’s been hard going for women’s sex-based rights campaigners, slandered and misunderstood at every step, and – because women’s rights are a matter of direct concern to over half the population of the planet, a campaign that reaches across every divide – of politics, of nationality, language, culture and class. It’s no surprise then, that…
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The RMT cleaners’ dispute has gone national!
This is really good news for ALL of us. Read on to find out why… It’s not easy to find the determination to turn up and stand on a picket line in the rain, especially right after Christmas but the RMT train cleaners managed it up and down the country today, as their part in…
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Why lefties need a big book about anti-Semitism
this book is a valuable, unique reference book – Moshé Machover I’m not Jewish, and until I joined the Labour Party, I was for the most part unaware which of the people around me were Jewish. By contrast, I found out which of my new Labour Party associates were Jewish very quickly, mostly when they…
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What do words mean? A prediction, and a scrap of advice for 2023
2023 will be a year to choose your words carefully and stand by them, and it will be a year in which doing so may cause your opponents to froth at the mouth. It may also result in your being arrested, and actually charged, for uttering illegal words. These days, I have a slight nag…
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NHS Crisis: let’s take action
When I wrote up this week’s day of action for our NHS emergency response staff, I wrote it up with the title This Is An Emergency… We were going to gather again on the 28th for a second day of action, but the NHS unions have cancelled it, saying the NHS is in crisis, and…
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This is an emergency
“You know something is broken when you see emergency response workers on a picket line,” says the FBU rep. In fact, this was a picket line like no other I’ve seen. Despite suffering both service funding cuts and pay degradation, despite being maligned by politicians from both the major political parties, Hastings’ emergency response crews…
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The Ghost of Christmas Rational
They have called us everything under the sun. They have run to the bosses with slanders and tried to push us out of work, out of our unions and out of politics. They have called our campaign “transphobic”, and way too many commentators have called the clash between our women’s rights campaign and their #NoDebate…
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What are governments for?
We had a solidarity gathering at Hastings Station – for – well, do you remember them? “They” are our essential workers. “They” are, essentially, us. But, since more and more trade unions have announced industrial action due to the neglect and underpayment of essential workers, the newspapers and our government have been trying to tell…
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On being disinformed
***Long read*** For most of the last decade, despite my determination to live effectively in the real world, I have been repeatedly drawn into apparently intractable battles of words. It’s not just me, either. I’ve lost count of the number of people who’ve told me they’ve given up on politics entirely because “it’s all so…
Kay Green 