what progress have missed is that many of us on the so called left grew up among the working classes. I rember mould on the inside of the windows, and occassions when we had very little money and on one occassion seeing my mother cry after the so called National Assistance officer had left and said why did she not sell her wedding presents etc. This when my father had cancer of the osophocus.
I have worked for many years as an advice worker, at the coal face and looked poverty in the face daily. I now represent a ward in the top 8 % of deprived areas of the uk and the highest premature death rate in Bristol. Its OK number crunching, but some of us in the party are now seeing the reality of the ConDEms policies and understand what is happening in the area of the country which progress rarely get involved with.
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“Enough. We can not wait any longer.” This was slogan behind which tens of thousands of workers, students, pensioners and radical left activists were marching in Rome Saturday in the first major protest against Italy’s new centre-left-right government. Led by metalworkers’ union Fiom, thousands of people marched to the beat of drums and whistles in … Continu […]
One of the great weaknesses of Spain’s indignados movement, which this week celebrated its second birthday, has been its failure to pursue a strategy that turns power in the streets into the real power needed to change the world. In the November 2011 general elections, six months after Spaniards occupied town squares across the country, … Continue reading » […]
what progress have missed is that many of us on the so called left grew up among the working classes. I rember mould on the inside of the windows, and occassions when we had very little money and on one occassion seeing my mother cry after the so called National Assistance officer had left and said why did she not sell her wedding presents etc. This when my father had cancer of the osophocus.
I have worked for many years as an advice worker, at the coal face and looked poverty in the face daily. I now represent a ward in the top 8 % of deprived areas of the uk and the highest premature death rate in Bristol. Its OK number crunching, but some of us in the party are now seeing the reality of the ConDEms policies and understand what is happening in the area of the country which progress rarely get involved with.