It is no surprise that the increasingly discredited and dwindling little band of Social Democrats and Euro-communists (otherwise known as PASOK and the Democratic Left), who have decided to lend their support to the salvation of a patently failed capitalist order, have declined the black limousines and red dispatch boxes or whatever is their Athenian […]
Syriza: a wake up call for the Left in Europe
Jun 15th, 2012 by Bob Clay.It was a little disappointing to read Dave Osler’s piece about Greece. The present situation is not just a judgment call for the Greek Left but for the Left in Britain and the rest of Europe. I have also been in Greece recently and although my time was spent in Crete rather than the hell […]
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David Miliband still favourite for the New Labour rich
Aug 13th, 2010 by Bob Clay.David Miliband received nearly as much as all the other Labour leadership candidates together during July according to the latest information from the Electoral Commission. Total registered donations were £310,685, of which David Miliband received £138,835.2. This included £50,000 from Anthony Bailey, £32,000 from Lord David Sainsbury and £10,000 from Gulam Noon. Ed Balls received […]
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The Campaign Group – Time to move on?
May 25th, 2010 by Bob Clay.In the absence of any more helpful website, I turn to Wikipedia to learn the post election strength of the Socialist Campaign Group of Labour MPs – the forum in which one might have supposed a left challenge for the Party Leadership would be prepared.
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Leadership or Impossibilism?
May 15th, 2010 by Bob Clay.There will be many on the Left who feel that the outcome of the general election could have been a lot worse. The Tories and Liberal Democrats could be exposed as the utterly unprincipled opposite of the bringers of ‘new politics’ in which guise the media has promoted them. Whilst they render themselves more and […]
