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The Captain finds a new berth
A few days ago I took part in the Founding Conference of a new party, Left Unity. The make-up of the conference was broadly what I was expecting; mainly men, largely over forty, mostly veterans of at least one of … Continue reading
Political architecture, (or draw the blueprints before arguing about the furniture fabric)
My daughter is planning to build her own house in the next year or two – an exciting, if somewhat daunting prospect. However, when confronted by an empty piece of open ground and a blank sheet of paper, she’s found … Continue reading
An open letter to the members of Green Left
Comrades, An event in Manchester last month served to demonstrate to me the limitations of the politics of the Green Party. It was on the TUC demonstration in support of the NHS; a huge, cheerful and largely working class march, … Continue reading
Posted in Green Party, Left regroupment, The Left
Tagged Green, Labour Movement, Left, Left Unity
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The Times They (may be) a’Changin
Over the past couple of weeks, three things have served to lift the gloom of an apparently endless winter in Tory Britain. First has been the first stirrings of what may well become a real wave of popular revulsion at … Continue reading
Posted in Green Party, Left regroupment, Politics, The Left
Tagged brighton green, Caroline Lucas, Green, Green Left, Ken Loach, Left Unity, Natalie Bennett, Will Duckworth
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Being Green
A few days ago there was an interesting discussion on the Socialist Unity blog (I say interesting; lengthy and fractious more like) about a post from a young comrade in York University Green Party entitled Can the Green Party become … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Green Party, Left regroupment, Socialism, Theory
Tagged E. P. Thompson, Green, Green Left, Joel Kovel
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More in sorrow than in anger
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
Posted in Democracy, Left regroupment, Socialism
Tagged democracy, International Socialists, SWP
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