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A Matter Of Priorities

The relationship between the Labour Party and imperialism has always been one which has seen social democracy indulge in some truly repugnant practices.  With the ascent of Corbyn, a life long opponent of the wars of US-UK imperialism, a chance emerged to push for an anti imperialist policy within Labour.  This runs into opposition from not only the Blairites but much of the “soft left” and the…

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What We Have Lost

The role of the trade union bureaucracy is a crucial matter for all Marxists to analyse.  In this piece September 2016 I look at the role it has played in recent anti austerity struggles.     We currently are experiencing a political upswing in terms of the working class’s engagement with politics. Such a period has not been seen for at least twenty five years and it is this which has provoked…

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Imperial Fantasias

Given the state of the war in Syria, with the Russian-Iran backed Assad government pushing back both the “official” USA backed opposition and ISIS.  The contradictory policies of US imperialism have not only created mayhem within Syria but have also led to a tactical defeat for US imperialism as things stand at the moment.  Looking back on this piece from August 2016, mainly focused on the…

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Out of the Past

This piece from August 2016 expresses my thoughts on the future developments within the Labour Party and the possibility of socialist transformation.  I have changed my position on this significantly since then which I will elaborate on in the near future.  Socialism is the extension of democracy to the social and economic life of the nation — James Connolly Propagandists of capital like to treat…

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Microwaved Thatcherism

Looking at Theresa Mays hapless government now it is easy to forget that she was once greeted with the near universal fawning enthusiasm by the capitalist media.  Here’s a piece I wrote back in August 2016 covering the startling lack of originality in her policies.     Theresa May has announced two policies over the course of the weekend. The first was on fracking the second on grammar schools.…

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Questions of the Myopic Kind

This post from August 2016 deals with the questions posed by tedious pseudo left poser Owen Jones when he was going through his “I don’t like Corbyn” phase.  Now he’s in the “I’m a massive Bennite” phase but I fully expect him to return to his previous position as soon as any remote amount of difficulty occurs.     “Because something is happening here. But you don’t know what it is. Do you,…

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Unelectably Popular

This post was originally written in July 2016 dealing with the shower of lies that erupted from the mouths of the Labour Party right when the Owen Smith “challenge” to Jeremy Corbyn began.    Jeremy Corbyn it seems is a man defined by immense contradictions. His leadership has seen the Labour Party grow to levels not seen since the 1950’s. But the labour right and their court jesters in the…

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The Language of the Unheard

This is a repost of a blog from my former medium page.  The article is a review of the documentary released in 2016 entirtled “The Hard Stop” which follows two friends of the late Mark Duggan as they deal with the fall out from the riots of 2011 and police murder of their friend.    “There was a time when you didn’t know what you know today” — Malcolm X The documentary “Hard Stop” which has had a…

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Too Much Hope And They Might Start To Dream

This post is from the imemdiate aftermath of the Corbyn win in Sptember 2015. My initial assessment of the challenges faced by Corbyn has largely been born out. My analysis of social democracy has changed though, but I’ll write more on that later.

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Chuka Ducks Out

I could subtitle this repost n the Labour leadership race as “only goes to show how wrong you can be”. Clearly written before the Corbyn wave but reflective of the fact that had he not won and any of the others had then Labour would have sunk without trace.

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Desperate Times - Sturgeon- "gate"

Desperate Times – Sturgeon- “gate”

Remember “Sturgeon gate”? No? Neither did I until revisiting this blog post from the 2015 election.

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Two Bald Men Fighting Over A Comb

Here’s my brief analysis of the Paxman moderated non-debates from 2015. They were exceedingly boring, the only thing of note was just how awful Cameron was. I figured the bourgeois were scraping the barrel with him but I reqckoned without Theresa “nothing has changed” May.

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Delusions of a Fading Power

The 2015 saw a wave of bourgeois hysteria regarding the (largely invented) prospect of the SNP supporting a minority Labour government. They tried this again in 2017 but it had even less basis in reality then.

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The Crazy World Of Rachel Reeves

Rachel Reeves is largely forgotten in the Corbyn era but is still lurking around the backbenches somewhere. In this piece from the election campaign I examined her truly wretched social security policies.

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Election Fever

This piece is from March 2015 when the election campaign began. In that election I was standing as a candidate for the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition. I’ll write more about why that whole experience was a valuable excercise in failure in future blogs. For now I’ll stick to saying that the analysis in this post is still largely correct in terms of the relationship between new labour and…

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Liberal Delusions on Cuba

Here’s a post I originally wrote in January 2015 after the Obama regime reached its deal with the Cuban government. In response the liberal columnist Owen Jones a wretched hit piece attacking the record of the Cuban Revolution. I stand by everything in the piece and my opinion of Jones has if anything worsened since then.

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ISIS, Cameron and the Delusions of the West

That same Europe where they were never done talking of Man, and where they never stopped proclaiming that they were only anxious for the welfare of Man: today we know with what sufferings humanity has paid for every one of their triumphs of the mind. – Frantz Fanon Today the parliament of the just about still united kingdom voted by 524 – 43 to join the US led campaign of air strikes against ISIS…