Category: Politics
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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).…
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FiLiA: I had a bit of a tantrum
What it feels like Having been bawled out of the Labour Party, union activism and a whole load of less important things over Palestine, the sex-and-gender issue or both, I have, like vast numbers of others, been trying to help set up locally to be ready for the re-birth of left politics. When I sent…
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Is this a different direction?
Question: is it possible to join Your Party and ‘take a different direction’? Answer:…? For the last couple of years, I’ve been learning about real democracy. I first came across the concept in a film about Venezuela in the Chavez era. The way Venezuelans at that time formed into local assemblies that discussed issues at…
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This may be a good thing
Blat blat blat Zara Sultana blat blat SWP blat blat blat blat Jeremy Corbyn blat blat blat blat Karie Murphy blat blat blat blat Information Commissioner blat blat Adnan Hussein blat blat blat blat blat blat … Bang! Why? Because when they did this… …she did this… … and they responded with this… … and…
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For the many
What I’d do is draw up a list of the main policy pledges from the 2019 manifesto — you know, the one that drew on the then Labour Party’s then policy forums — the one with all the really popular policy options in it, like British Rail, the People’s Post Office, and really saving the…
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The most evil people in the world?
“Why did they kill the children? Even the most savage beast in the jungle isn’t that brutal.” Go on, guess the country, guess the year. It’s not Palestine and it’s not 2025. (Five book recommendations and a musing — well, it’s been raining out there!) I read The Kite Runner a few years ago, and…
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The big row in Hastings (round two)
So, let me see if I can get this right. Hastings Women’s Voice, who wouldn’t let the Women’s Rights Network have a stall at their last do because WRN stand up for women’s rights (Women’s Voice think people who stand up for women’s rights are anti-abortion) are standing up for Queers for Palestine because Hastings…
Kay Green 