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Tag Archives: socialism
Platitudes, positions, policies and principles.
Platitudes, positions, policies and principles: what can we learn from Gorton’s selection meeting? I attended the selection meeting for the Labour Party’s Gorton by-election last week. There were five candidates, a short-list selected by a 5-person national Labour party panel. … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, economy, Labour Party, Manchester, NHS, politics, social policy, socialism
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Labour again: Corbyn’s victory and the growth narrative
This is a short post to note Corbyn’s victory in the Labour leadership re-election and ask some fundamental questions. Despite some misgivings in the last post, I’m delighted. This is all about rejecting the politics and economics of the last … Continue reading
Posted in ecology, economics, ideology, politics
Tagged climate change, degrowth, ecology, economic growth, economy, Labour Party, socialism
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Democracy, planning and a socialist health service.
Further to my piece on Manchester’s “Health Devolution”, I thought it worth returning to something I wrote over 4 years ago, in rather different times. The question that I didn’t try to answer in last week’s piece was “what’s the … Continue reading
Posted in NHS, politics, social policy
Tagged Cuba, democracy, Devolution, DevoManc, Latin America, NHS, planning, politics, socialism
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Key Words from Raymond Williams
“I cannot accept that education is a training for jobs, or for making useful citizens….. I ask for a common education that will give our society cohesion, and prevent it disintegrating into a series of specialist departments, the nation become … Continue reading
The disappointing Left
Today I received an election address from the No to EU party, a left trade union inspired initiative that aims to be an alternative to the neoliberal consensus that is now weaker in Labour, but sadly still there. Here is … Continue reading
The National Health Service, and Ken Loach, in the UK and Latin America
Strange to think that 12 months ago I was in San Salvador, having just travelled overland through Nicaragua and Honduras from Costa Rica. I wouldn’t mind some of that hot weather here now this winter is interminable, but at least … Continue reading
