Category: Politics
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An orgy of destruction
Your Party, FiLiA, Zionism, the trans issue… People are asking now, is Your Party over? We never did figure out who ‘you’ is but, after New Year, local groups across the country who reckon we are us will be mustering to do what Your Party founding documents require, which is to organise, to further engage…
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Credit where it’s due
[Header image: a video by The Canary, as the police inform those standing vigil that an ambulance is finally on its way to Bronzefield] To friends who aren’t willing to give Your Party a go, and to those who’ve given up in exasperation – I get it, I really do! But – well, the following…
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Expensive and ineffective?
If you’re beginning to doubt the importance of jury trials, please consider the possibility that you’re being led into error by a government that is pathologically resistant to justice and accountability. Since David Lammy announced the latest step in dismantling our (formerly world-class) justice system, I’ve seen two arguments against jury trials being passed around…
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A cascade of burning books
Three books, a short film and a talk This morning, I read somewhere that Israel has a huge mental health crisis to deal with after all the tormenting and killing of Palestinians the IDF have been doing in Gaza and across the West Bank. It made me think about what kind of trauma must be…
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How do you salve a guilty conscience?
Well, one way is to point attention away from yourself – spread the guilt around as far as you can. This weekend saw protests like these all over the UK – five of our own in Hastings were arrested. Our local activists have been on pretty friendly terms with Hastings police, especially those who have…
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This is what we mean by erasing women
‘Your Party’ have chosen the delegates for their first conference ‘by sortition’. They said this would ensure that a genuinely representative cross section of their supporters would be present. I suppose as we’re aiming for a ‘bottom up’ democracy, the fact that this has ruled out some of the natural leaders who’ve been working for…
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Socially conservative views, anyone?
I’m feeling pretty sorry for the Independent Alliance MPs just now. They’re new MPs. They’re there because the people in their constituencies wanted something better than what the Westminster Parties were offering, and that tells me two things: one, it must have been really hard for them to find their feet and make a space…
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FiLiA – across the divide
A feminist response to the ‘feminist response to the silence around October 7th‘ I was going to write about this event. I watched the video, I took notes, I asked for help and a friend with better ears than me gave me her notes. I thought about the sisters sitting there, about the sterling work…
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Why are we ‘obsessed’ with Palestine?
Quite a few of the attendees of the recent FiLiA conference in Brighton have been asking this question. Women I know and have great respect for have asked this question, their tone suggesting we were being unsisterly imposing our concerns on this, our annual, internationalist conference. I was told waving flags and chanting wasn’t the…
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Artificial Ignorance
So, today it happened to me. I saw a Facebook ‘friend”s post, which was making a political point, based on a photo. I got the point, although I suspected her motivation was a bit odd (all that stuff about what’s feminism, what’s racism and how the heck did I get lost somewhere between the two).…
Kay Green 