Category: Politics
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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…
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Two out of three ain’t bad, Zara Sultana, but we need all three
Like the hundreds of thousands of people who’ve been so happy to see the New Left Party project get rolling, I read NLR’s interview with Zara Sultana with keen interest. Has she got what it takes to build on what the Corbyn movement in the Labour Party did a few years ago? There are so…
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Out Promenading with Hastings Friends of Al Mawasi
Hastings Friends of Al Mawasi had a sponsored walk along the seafront a week or two back, and had a bit of bother from some of those people who don’t understand why we defend Palestine (it’s because settler-colonialism is a particularly violent form of illegal occupation and in Palestine, it’s escalated to genocide.) So, to…
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Helena Dollimore sent me another letter
When the Handala was attacked and boarded by Israeli occupation troops, and its crew abducted, I wrote to my MP asking her how the government is supposed to respond to acts of piracy. Just as when the Madleen was attacked, she responded with a letter full of her opinions about Israel / Palestine. Here is…
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Here’s how to help bring down this dreadful government from the safety of your own home
Step one is watching the Handala tracker. Step two is making sure you have the email addresses of your MP and the Foreign Office to hand. Why is this such a powerful opportunity? Because there’s plenty of evidence that Keir Starmer and his associates were seriously put out by our reactions to the attack on…
Kay Green 