Category: Corbyn
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From Blairites to sex workers
*** Long Read*** [It’s taken me a few weeks to get around to writing this. It’s one of the articles I drafted out when I was thinking about dropping my FB account. There was absolutely no doubt it was giving me problems but, as the horror that is the Israel / Palestine story dominated even…
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Starmer: who knew?
Or perhaps, within the Westminster bubble, the question was ‘who didn’t?’ I’ll post the source details of this quote as soon as someone can comment and tell me who wrote it, and in which year… You don’t have to be Andrew Marr to tell the difference between a Miliband left and a Corbyn left. Andrew…
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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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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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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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The biggest lie of all
Like many former Labour Party people, I went to see The Big Lie last weekend. It had already had two public showings in my town, and this was the third. I didn’t go to the first one because – well, I was a CLP officer when all this happened. I knew all too well what…
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Slow-burn rebellion
Seen those complaints on social media that the people aren’t rebelling? They think we’re a nation of quitters, or that we’re all duped by the Tories or the fake opposition. Tell them we haven’t given up. Tell them to come on out and join in – there is so much going on lately. Got depressed…
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Big lies and bad memories
All over the country, former Labour Party activists are filling halls and cinemas to watch Oh Jeremy Corbyn: The Big Lie. I’m not surprised. They were hurt, they were cheated, they were robbed, and it’s healing, to see your story told properly. I don’t seem to have gone along though. I was a CLP officer…
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Mind the gap
This is to all our warrior women who are, understandably, running short of patience – and also, to those who are now saying they’re out of patience with our women. Some are calling it the genderation gap and whilst that’s sometimes true, I will start by pointing out there are plenty of youngsters who saw…
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What we owe Harry
No, not that Harry … or that one, we owe this Harry… This is an article about how to save our NHS. For some years now, we’ve all seen the issuing of a crime number as a sign that the police don’t have the staff or the funds to actually pursue a crime. It seems…
Kay Green 