BY STEVE HART, political director, Unite Parliament doesn’t represent our society and is in danger of becoming out of touch. Following the last General Election just 4% of MPs had experience of manual work, while 55% come from backgrounds in PR, politics or the media. For a country with such a proud working class political […]
A game of two halves
Jul 11th, 2012 by admin.With his book offering a blueprint for a better Olympics published this week author Mark Perryman explains his Five New Rings. Seb Coe and the London Olympics Organising Committee, Cameron and his hapless Minister of Culture, Jeremy Hunt, their predecessors, Brown, Blair and Tessa Jowell. All of them cling to a bipartisan consensus that everything […]
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Let’s hear it for “The Workers”
Nov 22nd, 2011 by admin.Let’s Work Together is released today by a group of music-loving public sector workers, as a celebration of the services they provide and in solidarity with the Pensions Justice day of action on 30 November. It’s well worth supporting so help them top the charts by downloading the single for an austere 99p.
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Top Political Blogs – Your Chance to Vote
Jul 24th, 2010 by admin.Left Futures is new to this game but old hands on the Left like Socialist Unity, Labour List, and A Very Public Sociologist seem to think that being listed in the league tables helps to promote alternative left voices. Phil’s argument is: Seeing as socialism is still a dirty word (despite Andy Burnham’s sterling efforts, […]
