Category Archives: Democracy

Unfortunately this isn’t an April Fools joke

Posted on April 1, 2013 by Sean Thompson

  And so it begins. From today (1 April) the Government will begin do to things; it will give a tax cut averaging £100,000 to each of the 13,000 people in Britain earning over £1m a year and it will … Continue reading →

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Can’t pay? Don’t pay

Posted on February 25, 2013 by Sean Thompson

Obviously, we all know that this is Government is absolutely vile. But of all the vile things that they have done, or are planning to do (or at least, that they currently admit they are planning) the imposition of the … Continue reading →

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Arundhati Roy

Posted on February 14, 2013 by Sean Thompson

It is mendacious to make moral distinction between the unspeakable brutality of terrorism and the indiscriminate carnage of war and occupation. Both kinds of violence are unacceptable. We cannot support one and condemn the other. The real tragedy is that … Continue reading →

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More in sorrow than in anger

Posted on February 4, 2013 by Sean Thompson

Marx famously wrote ‘History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.’ In the case of the ongoing implosion of the Socialist Workers Party, the quote should be reversed. The collapse and fragmentation of the Workers Revolutionary Party in 1985 … Continue reading →

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Tony Benn on democracy

Posted on January 30, 2013 by Sean Thompson

If you meet a powerful person – ask them five questions: What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? And how can we get rid … Continue reading →

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