Tag: Left
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Freed From Desire (Part II)
Between aesthetics and ethics Spanish poet Federico García Lorca said “To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.” but I would argue it is the decision to keep quiet itself that is harder. In his later work Fear and Trembling, Kierkegaard explores anxiety that arises […]
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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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Idea-ology: Doctrine for the Masses (Part 2)
Neo-liberals believe that the free market is the best way to organise society. They claim that the government should be just an administrator, not a supervisor or a player in the market, even to the point that private companies should provide services such as hospitals, schools and prisons. This is a common misconception, or a […]
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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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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.
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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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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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Labour must transform into a more democratic party to bring about change. Let’s start with Brexit
Labour is a democratic socialist party and we want to see social change in the UK. We can only achieve this through democracy and we must work within the democratic institutions that we have. Me must address all our problems, including Brexit
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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?
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Only Labour can stop the Far Right in the UK and Europe
Now is the time to put your vote to good use, rather than digging in and fighting with other Brits. Remainers and Leavers should back the Labour Party to fight the Far Right
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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.
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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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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.
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To the Left to the Left: or the Far right. Conflictive times in Spain
Will the new law stopping the glorification of fascism help the left wingers stay in power or will the right win over the Spanish public’s heart and convince them to put the past behind them?
Alan McGuire 