Category: Politics
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Middle-class or Classlessness?
From the beginning of the New Labour era, Britain started to believe that the class society, as it had known it, had come to an end. A post-industrial society was modern cool Britain. This was perfectly encapsulated by former working-class Deputy Prime minister John ‘two-jag’ Prescott. Known as a person for not mincing his words, […]
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La historia de Jeremy Corbyn y la tragedia de partido Laborista
Para cualquiera que no siguió las elecciones de 2019 en Reino Unido, el Partido Laborista perdió las elecciones por dos razones: la mala cobertura de los medios y nuestra posición sobre el Brexit. Fue un error del partido Laboralista no apoyar la decisión de la clase trabajadora para el Brexit, lo cual fue la decisión […]
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Que es una ‘Centrist Dad’?
Hay un concepto en el mundo político anglo saxon que es un ‘centrist dad’ (padre centristas). Quiero introducir esto concepto a España porque es una idea fundamental por Twitter, memes y por una broma durante la cena de navidad cuando tu tío hablar sobre ‘que es posible’ en esto mundo. Un padre centralista normalmente es […]
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#4MAYO Madrid Elections: an after-thought
With a 75% participation rate, the PP and Isabel Ayuso take 65 seats in the Madrid Comunidad elections, four short of a majority. She will need an abstention from Vox to become president, and is also likely to negotiate a confidence on supply agreement with them. Ayuso has eaten Cuidudanos alive and kept Vox at […]
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Nigel Farage is a bigger threat to the left than the Tories. Here’s why.
Nigel Farage is a bigger threat to the left than the Tories. Here’s why.
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Keir Starmer: Labour Aristocracy
Labour Leader Sir Keir Starmer: “I don’t think there is a case for re-joining the EU…that is not realistic” Originally tweeted by BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) on January 10, 2021. On Sunday 10th January, Keir Starmer turned his back on a large group of people that voted for him in the leadership elections. Remain-backing Labour members […]
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Shove your ‘Hot Take’
Is anybody else tired? I certainly am. Following the threat to democracy, the ‘coup’, the backlash of populism (and any other over inflated name you want to give it) in the United States on Wednesday, all I have seen online so far are personal hot takes. These have mainly been poor interpretations of what was […]
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Worth a Read: Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism
Worth a Read: Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism By Kirsten Ghodsee Bodley Head Publications If you think this is a story with steamy descriptions of Soviet spies turning capitalist men in the USA to spy for the Russian regime, or the story of woman’s liberation from the clutches of the Iron Curtain, it […]
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Spanish Populism in a time of Crisis
Both Vox and Podemos continue to attack each other whilst the rest of Spain try to get on with life
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For the Many: Preparing Labour For Power – Book Review
For the Many, Preparing Labour For Power. Edited by Mike Phipps. Various contributors. OR Books 2017, Kindle February 2018 This book is an extension of the well received 2017 election manifesto, For The Many Not The Few. This book expands and leads the way for discussion about how a future Labour government could function. For […]
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Coronavirus: A Test For Europe
The European Union will not survive coronavirus unless it evolves. To do that it must break its own rules
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Pedro Releases The Pressure
Has the government been saved from its citizens’ anger by letting them out for walk? Will the Popular Party save the coalition government or damn the country to chaos? As someone with a dog I have been out every other day in the last 7 weeks. So I never had the overly euphoric experience of […]
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The Case of Isa, Pablo and The Justice System.
Two Podemos deputies in the media spotlight for clashes with the law.
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Book Review: The Socialist Manifesto
By Bhaskar Sunkara Published by Verso, May 2019 As a keen reader of US based Jacobin magazine and its cousin across the pond, the recently relaunched Tribute magazine, I looked forward to reading a socialist manifesto by their chief Bhaskar Sunkara. It wasn’t what I was expecting, worth buying nonetheless. Not many people in America write about […]
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Book Review: Fully Automated Luxury Communism
By Aaron Bastani Published by Verso, 2019 The truth is I had been waiting for this book for a long time, as an avid viewer of Novara media this made me, not only intrigued but also sceptical about this book. As anyone that follows Novara media may well know, the pundits are a bit of […]
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It isn’t Universal Basic Income, but Spain needs this
Spain is set to ramp up economic measures for the poorest in society to help battle against the pressures of coronavirus.
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Will 8M be the end of Spain’s Coalition Government?
Will 8M be the end of Spain’s Coalition Government?
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How Communists Helped Establish Democracy in Spain
At 10:30 pm on the 24th January 1977 eight lawyers were working late at the offices of Comisiones Obreras (CCOO), one of Spain’s trade unions which was set up by the Spanish Communist Party (PCE). At the time, Spain was in the middle of a temperamental transition from Franco’s dictatorship to democracy. Many people were tense due to the […]
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The History of Spain and Covid-19: Rinse and Repeat
If not having a functioning government in 2019 wasn’t enough drama for the Spanish population, then the introduction of Covid-19 would make up for it. Spanish society has revolved around political crisis since the turn of the 20th century. Being a late bloomer when it comes to industrialisation and the growing of a middle class, Spain […]
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Labour needs People on TV, not Political Pundits
I love Novara Media and leftie take downs of Tories on the BBC. But it is not connecting with people, only the fanboys. My opinion on why we need people not pundits.
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Another post-election dissection of the Labour Party
It is going to take us all to rebuild the Labour Party. A party that is part of all communities. A Labour Party that can beat Boris Johnson.
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Fuck Brexit. Save the NHS
Vote to save the NHS. Fuck Brexit. Brexit is a fantasy. It is not real, not yet. Our NHS however it is real and dying.
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Hands off our NHS
If you think the Brexit debate is divided now wait until the NHS is sold off. Not only will we have a divided society, but we will also have a dying one.
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Vote for hope. Vote for Change
All the election manifestos are now out, and it’s clear the Liberal Democrats, along with the Conservatives, want to maintain the course of our current economic model: neoliberalism. This economic model has resulted in income disparity unseen since the 1920’s. The difference between the poorest and the richest earners has grown exponentially. Since 2010 it […]
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Leave or Remain, a Labour government is what we need
With Boris Johnson taking the country to the brink of a no deal brexit, all eyes will be on anyone trying to stop it. They will be painted as the undemocratic “doubters, the doomsters, the gloomsters” of the UK. Johnson hopes to frame the next election around brexit and paint himself, similar to Trump, as […]
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Abolish Eton: Ideological ideas will ruin Labour
Socialist ideology overtakes electoral common sense. Abolish Eton shows that Labour is losing its touch.
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Book Review: Why Marx Was Right
By Terry Eagleton Published by Yale University Press Interest in Marx’s ideas has exploded recently due to a growing discontent with current economic thought, and the philosophy that goes neo-liberalism. Many are intrigued by the old wizard’s theories. What is a surplus profit? and why am I being exploited as a worker are all questions […]
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Book review: Poverty Safari
Poverty Safari: Understanding the Anger of Britain’s Underclass By Darren McGarvey. Published by Luath Press Ltd , December 2017, 192 pages Glasgow has recently been at the centre-point of a videothat popped up on my Facebook news feed. It talks about how the Glasgow policeforce worked with local health services to tackle knife crime; they did […]
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