Showing posts with label Labour Party UK. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Labour Party UK. Show all posts
Thursday, December 19, 2019

At Jacobin, a comprehensive analysis of Labour's implosion in the UK election.

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The Brexit referendum in 2016 needn't have taken place under the terms by which David Cameron minted the vote, but once it did, the v...
Saturday, December 14, 2019

UK election aftermath: "Any radicalism that fails to ask the really thorny questions isn’t radical at all."

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It would be a mistake to read too much into the (soon to be dis-) United Kingdom's election. Something had to happen with respect to ...
Friday, December 13, 2019

UK election 2019: Is the scene set for a return to Scottish independence?

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Thursday's UK election brought a huge majority to the Tories amid Labour's cataclysmic defeat, which makes Brexit a prospective f...
Friday, December 06, 2019

In Britain's elections, as in American ones: We'll awake "to find one of these horrors in charge."

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Photo credit: The Economist article. I was asked, "How is Donald Trump viewed throughout your travels?" To be honest, it d...
Monday, February 11, 2019

#FreeDistrict3: Is a two-party political duopoly "fit for the purpose of representing and reconciling the diversity of opinions in a modern and complex country?"

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This article is about the Conservative and Labour parties in Great Britain, but the parallels with Republicans and Democrats in America a...
Saturday, January 19, 2019

"The stakes are high in the Brexit impasse precisely because the working class has not been cowed by academic disapproval, editorial condemnation, or managerial contempt."

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Over at The Economist , which currently is editorializing on behalf of a second Brexit referendum, a " great rescrambling of Britain...
Saturday, June 10, 2017

Not in Adam Dickey's "democratic" NA: "All over the world, people are rising up against austerity and massive levels of income and wealth inequality."

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One cult of personality at a time, please. As the flailing chieftain of the DemoDisneyDixiecrats contemplates his challenge to Ed Clere...
Monday, June 27, 2016

David Graeber, Two: "Despair Fatigue: How hopelessness grew boring."

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From The Baffler . Looking for American parallels in Brexit? Dig a bit deeper, and keep Bernie Sanders in mind as you read this long ...
Saturday, September 12, 2015

Jeremy Corbyn: In the UK, Labour "takes a turn to the left."

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The analogy isn't perfect by any stretch, but think of Corbyn as a sort of Bernie Sanders with Vindaloo and a nice pint of Bitter. La...