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Fly a kite, tell a story, read a book…
In February last year, I went to a talk by Dr Zahira Jaser, which focused on what it’s like being a Palestinian woman in the UK lately. One of the issues mentioned was some people’s attitudes to people wearing the keffiyah. These days, people seem to think it means ‘terrorist’. Jaser spoke eloquently about the…
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This article has nothing whatsoever to do with shopping…
…it is a salute to Valerie Coultas and all the other women and men who have hung in there for Your Party, and still hope to build socialism there. Sexism has always been there – where has the socialist understanding of it gone? 1910 When women thrown into prison for marching for women’s rights began…
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The air that we breathe
When Israel bombed Iran last time, I thought – my dentist’s in Iran, visiting her mother. Please don’t kill my dentist! It sounds like a joke when I write it that way, but that’s what normal people do, when a war starts. We think of the people we know, and try to find out if…
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No help here, Labour!
A funny thing is happening. I wrote the blog 10 pledges to end the leadership crisis for Labour in 2020. It is not a serious proposition. I just re-worked the advice the ‘leadership’ had just received from the Board of Deputies – ie, reworked it so it was actually honest and fair. I had to…
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What is Your Party really dying of?
With thanks to Chetan Bhatt and Paul Knaggs for some definitions of things that we know but are very good at forgetting to take into account. A very wonderful am dram group presented a rendition of Peter and the Starcatcher in my town last Christmas. Good it was, funny it was, troubling it was, because…
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The borogroves are getting mimsy again
A verdant crown in a mailbox requires a crooked adjustment of every gate in the street. A valuable tug will intend towards the ludicrous but friendly, luxuriant bikes will sink in wandering axiomatic cribs unless nostalgic advice is accepted to put a brake on cautious account control. The supreme bleach face will fetch a good…
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Chomsky – Epstein – gender industry! — shocked?
I’m not. Nor are you, are you? Did you notice that once social media had had a day or two to gossip about the new releases, most thinking people have come round to ‘well, we knew that was how the world worked, nothing’s going to change…’ Honestly, go over to YouTube and watch some old…
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But seriously, folks…
Are you still ‘for the many’? Are you one of the 850,000 who signed up as soon as Jeremy Corbyn declared a new party? Are you one of the (now less than) 50,000 who are still hanging on? Or one of the 4,000 or so who are still engaged enough to join in the endorsements…
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Bolivar circles
There were around 20 of us – we’d come along to this month’s Left in the Cinema in Hastings. We’d just watched The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, to remind ourselves of some of the history of Venezuela. Now, the film was done, and we gathered in a circle to discuss it. We weren’t all…
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What do we need slates for?
As ‘Your Party’ struggles and spats its way to getting started, I’ve read some of the current arguments about this and that slate for Executive Committee elections, and I think this might be a key issue. What are slates for? When loads of us joined the Labour Party to support the Corbyn movement, many of…
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