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The Fears of the Powerful and the Hopes of the Peaceful
After two decades of cruising along the contaminated economic canals built by Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s, the Labour Party’s failure to win the 2015 election proved quite definitively that it had no fuel left (even with the oil stolen … Continue reading
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Corbyn’s Policy Documents
I do not claim that the whole political establishment and economic status quo would change under Jeremy Corbyn, but I do agree completely that he is the best chance we have (under the current electoral system) of moving towards a … Continue reading
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Creasy & the Deputy Leader Candidates
There isn’t too much to say regarding the candidates for deputy leader. Prospect Magazine, for example, made it very clear that “none of the candidates were among the left-wing rebels who defied the Labour whip to vote against Tory welfare … Continue reading
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Tagged Labour, Stella Creasy, Stella4Deputy, UK, UK Politics
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Corbyn’s Alternative to ‘Austerity-Lite’ Politics
Progressive Taxation, Crackdowns on Corporate Criminals, and Strong Investment Corbyn has campaigned for a “more progressive” tax system, calling for: “Stronger anti-avoidance rules”; “Country-by-country reporting for multinational corporations”; A reform of “small business taxation to tackle avoidance and evasion”; “Proper … Continue reading
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New Labour Is Right-Wing, but Corbyn Could Change That
Did Ed Miliband lead “a traditional left-wing party” into the 2015 elections? Or is the difference between New Labour and the Conservatives “more about what the parties choose to talk about rather than any great differences in policy”?[1] If we … Continue reading
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Tagged Bad Government, Capitalism, Capitalist Crisis, Democracy, Jeremy Corbyn, Labour, Labour Leadership, Neoliberalism, New Labour, Tony Blair, UK, UK Politics
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The Diversion Tactics of #Budget2015
1) Housing Chaos As a result of George Osborne’s Summer Budget this year, says Paul Waugh at The Huffington Post, “at least 14,000 fewer affordable homes will be built” in the UK. This statistic, from the Office for Budget Responsibility … Continue reading
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Britain’s Plutocracy, and How We Can Fight Against It
Call it what you want: a bourgeois democracy (in which the parties in the service of exploitative economic elites are the most powerful); a kleptocracy (in which “a small group [gets] rich by robbing [citizens] blind”[1] with the compliance of … Continue reading
Posted in Bourgeois Democracy, Conservative Party, Democracy, Kleptocracy, Labour Party, Plutocracy, SNP, UK, UK Elections, UK Elections 2015, UK Politics
Tagged Bourgeois Democracy, Change, Conservative government, Conservatives, Democracy, England, Great Britain, Kleptocracy, Labour, Plutocracy, Progress, Scotland, SNP, UK, UK Elections, UK Elections 2015, UK Politics
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Different Shades of Tactical Voting (UK Elections 2015)
The logic behind voting for the anti-Conservative candidate most likely to win an election is understandable in the majority of cases, as anything that slows down the spread of the deadly neoliberal virus clearly seems like something slightly less damaging … Continue reading
Posted in Bourgeois Democracy, Conservative Party, Democracy, dignity, Labour Party, Liberal Democrats, Libertarian Communism, Libertarian Socialism, Plutocracy, UK Elections, UK Elections 2015, UKElections
Tagged Bad Government, Bourgeois Democracy, Capitalism, Change, Conservatives, Democracy, Labour, Lib Dems, Libertarian Communism, libertarian socialism, Plutocracy, SNP, UK, UK Elections, UK Elections 2015, UKElections
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Should Workers Vote in the UK Elections?
I strongly believe that meaningful democracy can only truly be built from below, by cooperation between neighbours and direct, popular control over local resources. In the current electoral system in the UK, citizens basically allow all decisions to be made … Continue reading
Posted in UK, UK Elections 2015, UK Politics
Tagged Bourgeois Democracy, Conservatives, Green Party, Labour, Left Unity, Liberal Democrats, libertarian socialism, TUSC, UK, UK Elections 2015, UK Politics, UKIP
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The 2015 Political Debate in the UK
The main issues in the 2015 general elections in the United Kingdom seem to be: the cuts to the government’s social spending under the Tory-LibDem coalition (and whether to continue with them to ‘deal with the deficit’ or to reverse … Continue reading
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Resistance Is Fertile 