Tag: Labour Party conference
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Protesting Labour Party Conference protests

I found several newspaper articles and more blogs listing the protests planned for Labour conference, and looking through them ignited a cascade of startling thoughts. Most reporters, mainstream and indie alike, thought there were two important protests – the one about Labour Women’s Conference being only for women (a situation which the Trade Union leadership…
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Sausages, pylons and prisons

Notes from afar on the post-socialist ‘Labour’ conference Actually, the bit about the sausages was the most effective of Starmer’s strategies I was surprised to hear there appeared to be at least three socialists left to attend conference – well, people with a scrap of conscience, anyway. One was assaulted and dragged from the hall,…
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A memorable week in the end times

***long read for the weekend*** July 2022, UK, planet earth Many of us do not forget we are well past the time we could have dealt with the climate crisis without cataclysmic consequences. Many of us are grappling with the cost of living crisis (that is, our government’s complete failure to address the problem of…
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Solidarity? It’s out here!

Being a socialist feminist in mainstream politics is a pain, it really is. If you intend to read this article, for your sanity, before you start could you remind yourself that outside of party politics, people have families, friends and colleagues with a range of opinions and ideas, and they mostly manage to get along,…