If war is politics by other, more violent means; then surely politics is war via the demonstration, the megaphone, the occupation, the ballot box, and occasional argy-bargy between rival parties and factions. Hence politics and violence go hand in hand. It has become institutionalised and routinised in Western liberal democracies, but the association – as […]
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Osborne is beginning to make some serious mistakes
Sep 29th, 2015 by Michael Meacher.Osborne has always had an overweening arrogance as he plots his path to the premiership before 2020. But his calculation is beginning to desert him. It is extraordinary that he has spent a week sucking up to China, accompanied by six ministers in his retinue, when everyone else is fleeing the country as being in […]
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Jeremy Corbyn and the New World Order
Sep 27th, 2015 by David Osland.I pity the poor sod the Conservatives have tasked with trawling through vast back files of the Morning Star, Labour Briefing and Campaign Group News in the hope of digging up incriminating quotes from Jeremy Corbyn. You see, back in the 1980s and 1990s I not only used to stand outside tube stations and factory […]
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Kill the Bill (the video)
Sep 24th, 2015 by Keith Ewing and John Hendy.A film by the Institute of Employment Rights, in which Professor Keith Ewing and John Hendy QC talk about the Trade Union Reform Bill. In it, John Hendy QC says: This Bill is “an attack on the rights of unions having an industrial voice”. It also aims to exclude “unions from having a political voice” as well […]
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Enjoy #piggate, but don’t forget Lord Sewel
Sep 21st, 2015 by David Osland.Many politicians from US president and London mayors downwards have survived run-of-the-mill kiss and tell marital indiscretion. But necrophiliac bestiality on the part of a prime minister truly takes us into uncharted territory. At the very least, yesterday’s revelations concerning David Cameron’s youthful Oxford high jinks are going to dog him – if that’s the […]
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Corbyn strikes a rich vein with taxes on the very rich
Sep 20th, 2015 by Michael Meacher.Jeremy Corbyn’s latest move – to give reassurance that Labour will campaign to remain in Europe and then, if elected in 2020, reverse from the inside any diminution of workers’ rights which Cameron may have secured – is a smart move when it is linked with pushing through the £50bn financial transactions tax on almost […]
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Corbyn’s Labour will stop the Tories abusing liberty, removing rights and cutting living standards
Sep 18th, 2015 by Grahame Morris.An effective, credible and principled opposition has never been needed more. The Cameron Government have resumed their assault on working people in the Commons this week. The Trade Union Bill seeks to remove the democratic rights of working people and has been condemned by human rights organisations including Liberty, Amnesty International UK and the British Institute […]
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Labour’s policy on EU must force Cameron to address public aspirations and concerns
Sep 17th, 2015 by Michael Meacher.It is fairly clear, even among Europhiles who want to stay in, what most people object to about the current state of the EU and what they would like to see changed. The membership fee is uncomfortably large, some £11bn every year. Free movement of labour works well between countries of similar living standards, but […]
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One of Jez’s first tasks must be to frame his project, and to de-frame Osborne’s
Sep 16th, 2015 by Michael Meacher.If there is one single reason why Labour lost the election, it’s that Osborne realised the critical importance of framing his project in a way that made it acceptable in the eyes of a majority of the electorate. The fact that it was a string of lies didn’t matter as long as people believed it. […]
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Corbyn forces the Tories to take him seriously
Sep 14th, 2015 by Michael Meacher.After all the slurs about unelectability, the Tories have very quickly changed their tune and acknowledged that they are now facing a very real threat that they’ve not encountered for the last 30 years. At a meeting of the political cabinet last Tuesday they decided to focus on the idea that they offer a better […]
