Mark Perryman from Philosophy Football explores a year when the tide turned against Fascism Ken Loach’s recent film Spirit of ’45 brilliantly celebrates the triumphant mood that delivered a Labour Landslide election victory at the end of World War Two and the establishment of both the Welfare State and nationalised public utilities. What is made [...]
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Nigel Farage: the low rent Enoch Powell
May 8th, 2013 by David Osler.It’s something of a love that dare not speak its name. But Powellism has remained a major subtext on the British right for something like half a century, with the rise of UKIP marking only the latest incarnation of this ongoing infatuation. It may seem a bit of a stretch to compare a reactionary intellectual [...]
The ironies of UKIP are delicious, and a boon for Labour
May 5th, 2013 by Michael Meacher.The ironies around UKIP are endless. First, it is the Tory tabloids that fanned the public fury about immigration, welfare and Europe, and thus the UKIP surge which has so successfully split the Tory party between the modernising, hug a hoodie, Arctic sleigh, wind turbine on your house, gay marriage detoxifiers of Teresa May’s Nasty [...]
UKIP faces BNP entrism
May 5th, 2013 by Phil Burton-Cartledge.It will no doubt be a cack-handed operation, but entrism within UKIP is – apparently – what the BNP are planning to do. This from Nick Griffin’s “analysis” of Thursday’s election results on the BNP’s website. Join us – or do this! If, for whatever reason, anyone who thinks of themselves as a nationalist isn’t [...]
Di Canio in Swindon, the Dog that Didn’t Bark
Apr 5th, 2013 by Andy Newman.Mark Haddon’s book The Curious Incident Of the Dog In the Night-time was set in Swindon, referencing the famous dictum by Sherlock Holmes, in the story The Silver Blaze. Gregory (Scotland Yard detective): “Is there any other point to which you would wish to draw my attention?” Holmes: “To the curious incident of the dog [...]
Paulo Di Canio: We Must Prevent Fascism Becoming Acceptible
Apr 2nd, 2013 by Andy Newman.I was delighted at the response of David Miliband in resigning as vice chair of Sunderland after the appointment of open fascist Paulo di Canio as manager. Since then, Durham NUM have asked for their banner to be returned, up until now proudly displayed at the Stadium of Light: Davey Hopper, General Secretary of the [...]
Can you be a fascist, Paolo Di Canio, without being a racist?
Apr 2nd, 2013 by Carl Packman.A lot has been made of Sunderland Football Club’s new manager Paolo Di Canio’s previous comments and actions, that have been expressly fascist in nature. The accusations, that Di Canio now call “ridiculous and pathetic”, include giving roman salutes to A.S. Roma fans (who are known to have a wide Jewish following), a recorded interview [...]
Don’t exaggerate the UKIP threat
Mar 4th, 2013 by David Osler.British parliamentary contests are described as first past the post for a reason, and the reason is that coming second does not get you a seat at Westminster. Yet somehow UKIP is basking in a spectacular degree of favourable publicity through the simple expedient of losing the Eastleigh by-election. One factor at work is that many [...]
Eastleigh – bad for Libs and Labs, disastrous for Tories
Mar 1st, 2013 by Jon Lansman.The result in Eastleigh may be a relief to the Lib Dems, but it is still a very bad result. How can losing more than 14% share of the vote be anything else? They may have won but, as the bleary eyed will have heard Prof John Curtice say after the announcement, it was with [...]
Turning the tide v fascism: remembering the Red Army victory at Stalingrad
Feb 12th, 2013 by Newsdesk.Featuring Seumas Milne, Clare Solomon, Matthew Collins with Geoffrey Roberts author of Stalin’s General : The Life of Georgy Zhukhov and Susan Richards of OpenDemocracy Russia, plus performances by Thee Faction and the Trans-Siberian March Band. Gregg McDonald’s film of the Philosophy Football’s 70th Anniversary of the Victory of Stalingrad Night combines political commentary, military [...]
