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We keep winning, why haven’t we won?
This is for all those councillors, MPs, TU reps and organization heads who think women’s rights is a minority interest. The accurate answer to ‘transwomen are women’ is ‘no, women are women. Transwomen are transwomen‘. Unfortunately, the people running all our councils and government departments and big organizations hardly ever hear the right answer, so…
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Hastings for Palestine
We had a fantastic weekend in Hastings. Below is a link to the local PSC’s video of the kids’ banner-making and the Bike-ride-for-Palestine on Saturday… And on Sunday, we had a march along the seafront, led by the young banner-makers, and a rally in the town centre. Thank you, Hastings, to all those who continue…
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Cards on the table time
Now we find ourselves with a Green council leader in Hastings, I wonder if the local party is going to come clean about their part in the isolation and slandering of Ruby Cox, which led to her losing her former council seat. It still matters because sex still matters If you’re very good at reading…
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Israel: the whole world is watching
Across the globe this weekend, millions came out on the streets again, to call for a ceasefire in Gaza. Despite the vast numbers marching in our major cities, we still had enough of us left over to run smaller events in town and village squares. Very few people like wars. Even fewer people are willing…
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Wilful Ignorance
I went to a discussion event in Brighton last week, and have been watching the furore around it on TwitX ever since. This was an unchaired discussion between Hannah Barnes and Helen Lewis on child-transition, puberty blockers and the various controversies around that topic. Looking at the #TimeToTalk tweets on the night, these were the…
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Curséd Be Boulangism
Set aside all your tired arguments for using cash and relearning the art of stepping outside without a Smartphone. You’re absolutely right, but doesn’t it get a bit boring, arguing for the bleedin’ obvious, on everything from privacy and the NHS to trying to stop a genocide? Take a short break, pop down to the…
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Away with your ‘day after’ talk
Palestine needs help – so does Israel. Whilst Palestinians are doing everything in their power to call for help, and everyone except US and most European politicians are trying to respond, Israelis are also making themselves heard now. Some of the October 7th victims are suing their government and the IDF, there is an Israeli…
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Are you independent enough to stand up for Hastings?
I was a member of the Green Party once. I was an enthusiastic Labour Party officer for a while. I am out of patience with party politics altogether just now – and you know, my opinions haven’t changed much. What is the point of going on supporting an organization because it once had policies you…
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The Battle of the Land
This is the latest result of a favourite pastime of mine. One of the main reasons I still hang onto a library ticket and the habit of walking into actual buildings with actual books in them is the opportunity it gives to meander around and let things you didn’t know you wanted to read catch…
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Who is to blame?
Acquisitive Europeans set the world up as a colonialist enterprise. The worst of them went for the worst form of colonizing – the sort where settlers either destroy or dispossess the indigenous population. People from all over the world went to ‘The New World’ and created the United States by executing a particularly nasty example…
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