Lefties on The Standard: UK election edition
A dedicated post on The Standard providing a discussion space for left-wing people only.
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The Missing Millions
Millions of people and an entire region of the UK left out of polling calculations….
An Early Christmas.
Christian tradition dictates Christmas falls on the 25th of December. This year though, if we simply view Christmas through a lens of ‘good things happening’, then Christmas is coming early.
Lefties on The Standard redux
A dedicated post on The Standard providing a discussion space for left-wing people only.
The Race to be the Democratic Party’s Presidential nominee
Breaking it down.
“For the good of all, the poor come first.”
Those were the words spoken by Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) during yesterday’s Presidential inauguration where he promised to end Mexico’s disastrous neo-liberalism.
Disestablish the establishment.
Politics can be soap, or politics can be real. This post comments on some of the soap and offers an example of something that’s real
A Democratic Cakewalk.
Cenk Uygur might be said to have “skin in the game” when it comes to the US Mid-terms, and given that much of this post revolves around, or bounces from his commentary and analysis – which may not be quite as objective as he thinks – that should be borne in mind when reading this post.
Brazil, Brexit, Trump…with more to come.
When orders collapse, it doesn’t have to be a bad thing. We’re making it a bad thing.
Will there be a Brexit?
In short, I think not.
Enough Bullshit!
White South African farm murders.
Period. End. Done.
The Scottish government has just taken a massive step to eradicate period poverty. Why not here?
Censorship
It seems that if you’re the right person, harbour the correct thoughts, have the right connections, and you don’t like whatever the political opinion, news or information that’s floating about is, then you can get it banned.
Propaganda Wars.
No-one reading this blog would willfully offer support to an ideology that’s killing people, right?
We need more radicals coming here
We need more radical voices again here. But it’s like MMP has turned us once again into the passionless people. It always looks like “hate speech” when you hate it.
Guest post: The end of Neoliberalism – What went wrong?
The Left predicted the death of neoliberalism after the global financial crisis of 2008. But since then inequality has increased and new right nationalism is on the ascendancy. How should the left respond?
The Pied Piper
If we’re living in a global village, is the name of the village Hamelin?
Corporatism.
Hand in hand with “compassionate liberalism”.
Just a quick thought…
Yeah, okay, it’s a couple of thoughts on the Canadian jokers and what is and isn’t happening in response to their stuff.
A right, Left problem
A post suggesting that the traditional descriptive lens of “left and right” isn’t up to capturing current political realities.
Free Speech Coalition’s litigation strikes a major snag
The free speech coalition’s desire to get the High Court to enforce the rights of Lauren Southern and Stefan Molyneux has struck a potential snag. A rather major snag.
Smile!
The extent and limits of current politics.
Mexico turns left
In Mexico a leftist Bernie Sanders like friend of Jeremy Corbyn has been elected as President in a landslide.
Socialist candidate rolls Democrat heavyweight in primary
In a major upset the fourth ranking Democrat in the House of Representatives has lost a New York primary to a young latino woman who is a self described socialist as well as a Bernie Sanders supporter.
Where have our rights gone?
Great to see that the State Services Commissioner has widened the investigation into the use of private investigators hired by the state against its citizens. But. They should go further.
The law and order debate and the grade one tosser
The Government has announced it will not proceed with the Waikeria mega prison as part of its policy to decrease the prison muster by 30%. And the called for public debate starts off with one of the major players using a study the author of which subsequently retracted because the data he relied on was wrong.
Rogue Nation(s)
Just some thoughts that kind of meandered down to the ocean.
The Centre, the Left and UK local elections
Thoughts on a resurgent left and a collapsing centre.
Radical Socialism
‘nother guest post by Nick Kelly (Upper Hutt boy in London)
New Zealand Is all right, at the end
Democracy’s permanence is not inevitable. Its imagining is not beyond imagining. And New Zealand is one of the shrinking number of democracies who really have it.
What did we want from Marama Davidson?
While there has been some informed commentary on Marama Davidson’s ascension as co-leader of the Green Party, some of the more right-wing outfits have failed to understand the dynamics within the party right now. What did Marama promise, and what were Greens expecting of her?
Democracy, Faux Democracy and Terror.
Facebook, Putin, poisoning and Ghouta have all given fairly extensive media coverage of late. Nothing much on Afrin. Afrin has just fallen to terrorists backed by Turkey.
Update: the photo used for this post is of the The Queer Insurrection and Liberation Army (TQILA), who are part of the International Revolutionary People’s Guerrilla Forces fighting in Syria.
Sanctions. Weapons of War.
When elite’s tussle, shouldn’t we look after us and ours?
States United.
On how states in conflict, have seemingly and nevertheless, managed to share in the likely or possible creation of one common goal.
You Cowed?
To bleat and wring hands, or to act? Jeez. It’s a difficult one.
Jim Anderton 1938 – 2018
Jim Anderton’s funeral is at 2pm today, and will be livestreamed from youtube.