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How to get to football matches and pop concerts, and take the train to work
As you probably know, if you saw the RMT’s Mick Lynch on TV this morning, yet again having to answer those questions about ‘why are you inconveniencing people trying to get to football matches, pop concerts, or to work?’, the powers that be are still successfully dragging out disputes over whether or not public service…
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Is party politics beyond redemption?
When even the best Labour councillors are hamstrung by a dysfunctional Party and Yellow is yet another shade of Blue — then you find Greens are not necessarily good for you… I joined a proudly socialist CLP in 2016, when we all saw the Party moving to the left. I was Vice-Chair in the 2017…
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The promise of Jocelyn Simms
If you’re in the book trade, you receive a lot of books for review, but there are certain names that, like those first signs of approaching summer, bring a sparkle of anticipation. I was looking forward to The Promise of Thaw by Jocelyn Simms, and the promise was fulfilled. The back-jacket reviewers are Elaine Briggs,…
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It’s worse than oppressive – it’s embarrassing!
Who on earth are we going to vote for? The Conservative Party is now so far down the rabbit hole that the leader of the Labour Party has decided to take over as a new incarnation of the Tories. Unfortunately, team Starmer are behaving more like the new Tories that everyone hates than the mythical…
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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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It’s not party time yet
I had mixed feelings at the thought of going to hear Jeremy Corbyn speak during the May weekend. I was a committed, unconflicted Labour Party officer in 2017 and was delighted to be working for the election of a Labour Party that intended to answer to the nation’s most urgent needs. We were battling to…
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Full on no-holds barred rant: THIS IS AN EMERGENCY
I didn’t think I had much shockability left at the way our current shameful crop of politicians have not just let our NHS slip away, but colluded in every stage of the ‘slash, trash and privatize’ project. As someone said last night, “we need to stop talking about how to save the NHS and start…
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The little-known story of being an immigrant
There aren’t many issues you don’t need to cover at a women’s conference. Most people know that women make up over half the population of our world, but surprisingly few realize the significance of being a woman trying to get along in a world designed by and for men. Few people realize how sex impacts…
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In honour of Diane Abbott
If tokenism worked, Diane Abbott would now be an honoured, senior politician: a figurehead, a hero – the first Black female MP to be elected to Westminster. What must it have been like, being the only Black woman in that hidebound, clique-driven institution? Yet she has served her constituency, being confidently re-elected every time, for…
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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…
Kay Green 