Tag Archives: Liberal Democrats
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
Posted in Bourgeois Democracy, Britain, Conservative Party, Conservatives, Democracy, Great Britain, Green Party, Greens, Labour, Labour Party, Liberal Democrats, Nationalism, Plaid Cymru, Reactionism, SNP, UK, UKIP, United Kingdom
Tagged Bad Government, Bourgeois Democracy, Britain, British Politics, Capitalism, Change, Conservatives, Democracy, England, Great Britain, Green Party, Labour, Labour Party, Liberal Democrats, Nationalism, Neoliberalism, Northern Ireland, Plaid Cymru, Reactionism, Scotland, Scottish Nationalist Party, SNP, UK, UK Politics, UKIP, United Kingdom, Wales
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‘Democracy’ in the UK and Europe
For those unfamiliar with the main political parties in the UK, this is my rough summary: ‘Left’ Labour – social democrats and ‘social’ capitalists of the so-called ‘third way’ (S&D in Europe) Lib Dems – social democrats focussed more … Continue reading
Posted in Anarchism, Autonomy, capitalism, Climate Change, dignity, Environment, Europe, Exploitation, Imperialism, independence, Injustice, International Relations, justice, Libertarian Communism, politics, revolution, socialism, UK
Tagged Anti-Immigration, Austerity, BNP, Bourgeois Democracy, bureaucracy, Capitalism, Communism, Conservatives, Cooperation, Discontent, England, European Elections 2014, Fascism, Great Britain, Greens, Horizontalism, Injustice, Internationalism, Labour, Left Unity, Left-wing, Lib Dems, Liberal Democrats, Nationalism, Nationalist, Neoliberalism, Northern Ireland, Participative Democracy, Plaid Cymru, Right-Wing, Scotland, SNP, Socialism, UK, UKIP, United Left, Verticalism, Wales
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Left Unity: UK Organises Against Austerity
In England, all three main parties are fully signed up to an austerity agenda. The Left, divided and weak, has not yet been able to change the course of that debate, to make the case that it was not welfare … Continue reading
Posted in Anarchism, Autonomy, capitalism, Climate Change, Conservative Party, dignity, Environment, Europe, Exploitation, Imperialism, Impunity, independence, Injustice, International Relations, justice, Labour Party, Liberal Democrats, Libertarian Communism, Neoliberalism, politics, revolution, socialism, UK
Tagged Activism, Austerity, Capitalism, Conservative Party, Cuts, England, Labour, Left Unity, Lib Dems, Liberal Democrats, Neoliberalism, Socialism, Solidarity, Tories, UK, Unions
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Resistance Is Fertile 