Monday, 1 February 2021

The way forward - buiding a democratic socialist party III

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This is the third in my series of posts about building a democratic socialist party.  In this post, I want to focus on policies.  What polic...
Tuesday, 19 January 2021

The way forward - buiding a democratic socialist party ll

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In my previous post  on this topic, I blogged about four key principles for setting up a democratic socialist party, which are: 1. horizonta...
Saturday, 16 January 2021

The way forward - building a democratic socialist party

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This is the first in a series of posts about creating a new democratic socialist party (although the ideas and principles could be used for ...
Tuesday, 12 January 2021

Why Labour isn't 20 points ahead

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When Jeremy Corbyn was LOTO we were told by centrists and much of the media that if only Labour had a 'moderate' leader the Party wo...
Tuesday, 24 November 2020

Let's face it - the Labour Party has never been fit for purpose.

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If you are a Labour Party member you will have a party card which states: "The Labour party is a democratic socialist party". But ...
Wednesday, 4 November 2020

How #Trump wins

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As I write this, the US presidential election is in the balance. Biden is ahead but there is no certainty he is going to win. Trump could st...
Friday, 16 October 2020

Local lockdowns won't work we need a circuit breaker with full furlough #Covid19UK

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As if the threat of the coronavirus wasn't enough to cause you some anxiety - perhaps unless you are young and healthy - the manifest fa...
Friday, 4 September 2020

David Graeber - Rest In Power

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I've never written an obituary before. I'm not sure that I know how to. But what I do know is that I was gutted to hear that David G...
Thursday, 20 August 2020

These are the three priorities we need to fight for: Electoral reform, a Green New Deal and #MMT

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Covid-19 isn't going away anytime soon. It may be around for many years. There may never be a vaccine. We, and particularly older and ...
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Sunday, 9 August 2020

The cancer of consumption and #COVID19

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We live in a consumer-capitalist society. Consumption drives our economy. That is why the Tory government is so anxious to return to 'n...
Wednesday, 8 July 2020

Economic imperialism and the fallacy of 'development'.

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I'm reading The Divide by Jason Hickel which is an excellent discourse on how poverty has been deliberately created and maintained acr...
Monday, 8 June 2020

The felling of the Colston statue wasn't an act of vandalism it was an act of liberation

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Incredible scenes in Bristol yesterday as hundreds of people gathered in Bristol to pull down the statue of slave trader Edward Colston an...
Wednesday, 3 June 2020

#BLACKLIVESMATTER

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A video is doing the rounds on social media of George Floyd who was accused of passing a counterfeit bill and was arrested by four police ...
Tuesday, 5 May 2020

Can we build a democratic socialist party in the UK?

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The coronavirus crisis grinds on and will continue for many months yet. Today the official figures are 32,000 coronavirus deaths - the high...
Thursday, 16 April 2020

After the virus: building the post-capitalist economy

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Its time we began to think about what kind of economy we’re going to have after the coronavirus. What we can’t do is allow the Tory govern...