Tag: inequality
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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 […]
Alan McGuire
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Systemic Societal Change, Not Self-Care, Will Fix Our Nation’s Mental Health Crisis
Ending austerity, individualistic thinking and unstable employment must be the first steps to addressing the ever-growing epidemic of mental health.
Alan McGuire
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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 […]
Alan McGuire
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A Society for People, not Profits, is why we need Universal Basic Services.
Universal Basic Services definition: the provision of sufficient free public services, as can be afforded from a reasonable tax on incomes, to enable every citizen’s safety, opportunity, and participation. Doesn’t sound too bad , does it?
Alan McGuire
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Spanish Elections 2019: How did it come to this?
Spanish Elections 2019: How did it come to this? The campaigns finished on Friday and this will give people their traditional day of reflection, before they make their decision on the Sunday in Spain’s most divided election in years.
Alan McGuire
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Can the Feminist hype save Spain’s dying Left?
“The protest continued well into the night down the main avenues of Spain’s capital city, all the while the people eating in these restaurants were being waited on by women who probably couldn’t afford to strike.”
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Why we should all support 8M, the Women’s Strike, in Spain
Since 2017, when 40,000 women ascended on Madrid the 8th March has become a big date in the Spanish calendar. 2018 was when it really hit it off with millions of women striking in the first ever 24 hour strike. Housewives hung out their aprons, next to the Spanish flags, in solidarity with their fellow strikers. Here is why, in 2019, it is more important than ever.
Alan McGuire
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Will facism will rise again in Spain?
Fascists are gaining ground in the south of Spain. How did this happen? It was always going to happen.
Alan McGuire
Conservative, Far right, Franco, inequality, Left, Podemos, PSOE, racism, Right wing, Socialism, society, Spain, Vox -
The Royals. Yay or Nay?
Royal scandal and claiming tax payers money. Isn’t Monarchy a bit dated for the 21st century?
Alan McGuire