Political Strategy
The Petition on Hanging shows how the Right’s Willingness to Fail allows it to Succeed
Posted on January 31, 2012 by Peter McColl | 3 Comments
I read with some delight that the petition lodged by scurrilous hate-monger Paul Staines to have a debate in Parliament to ‘bring back hanging’ is set to be struck off. That’s obviously good news. Even in the blood-thirsty USA the death penalty is becoming less popular by the year. You may remember that this petition [...]
The bill is gone but the fight is on
Posted on January 24, 2012 by Edd Bauer | No Comments
We need to step up our game on the White Paper; the government is no longer going to do the work of defeating it for us. They were about to put its proposed regressive changes to higher education into the cold light of day where it stood a fair chance of withering and dying. We [...]
Don’t worry Cameron, I can see your Big Society on the distant horizon – even if you can’t
Posted on January 8, 2012 by Admin | No Comments
By Alex Murray The New Year. A time for sharing. A time for caring. The perfect time for a Big Society. People heading to soup kitchens. A goat for a third world nation. Swell. Sounds like high time for another dose of sound-byte happy “We’re all in it together”. Out of nowhere, however, Cameron appears [...]
Building to Win: Reaching Beyond the International Anti-Capitalist Elite
Posted on December 30, 2011 by Adam Ramsay | 10 Comments
I was recently asked to speak about the infrastructure of progressive movements at the Bank of Ideas – part of Occupy London. This is roughly what I said. This piece first appeared in the Occupied Times. I recently had the good fortune to interview Newsnight economics editor Paul Mason at a comedy gig. His message [...]
Beating the right and the coming European event horizon
Posted on November 18, 2011 by Adam Ramsay | 23 Comments
“Event Horizon: (n) A spatial boundary around a black hole inside which gravity is strong enough to prevent all matter and radiation from escaping.” As the European economy teeters on the brink of collapse, now is surely the time to ask how to make sure we don’t get our arse handed to us like we [...]
Technology, self-organisation & some dreams for the #Occupy movement…
Posted on November 5, 2011 by Admin | No Comments
This post is by Liam Barrington-Bush, and first appeared at Concrete Solutions On my first day hanging around Finsbury Square, the 2nd London manifestation of the #Occupy movement, I met a young guy named James. James handed me a couple folded pieces of paper and asked me to write down why I was there and [...]
OK, the Times talks shit. Now can we move on?
Posted on October 28, 2011 by Adam Ramsay | 5 Comments
In response to the ‘expose’ across the right wing press that people occupying London don’t actually sleep in their tents, the occupiers have released a video: What it shows is that the infra-red camera supposedly showing that no one was in their tents at 11:13pm (who would be in their tents then anyway?) doesn’t work. [...]
Privatisation and the SNP
Posted on October 27, 2011 by Alyson Macdonald | 1 Comment
While Alex Salmond received a hero’s welcome at the SNP conference in Inverness last weekend, controversy has been brewing back in Edinburgh. On Thursday, the City of Edinburgh Council – led by a coalition of the Liberal Democrats and SNP – will be taking the first of a series of votes on whether council services [...]
How can Occupy London Stock Exchange move beyond its limits?
Posted on October 19, 2011 by Admin | 2 Comments
This is a guest post by Guy Mitchell, who spent Saturday and Sunday at Occupy LSX. There is a starting point that is incredibly powerful to all this. It is a simple realisation, an acknowledgement that the government does not do what it claims. Democracy is a lie and we are not all in it [...]
Counterpower – a review
Posted on October 9, 2011 by Nishma Doshi | No Comments
We are a generation facing failed economic policies, high expenses without the means to pay for them, a lack of employment opportunities that mirrors the Great Depression and a government that will do anything in its power to silence our complaints. None stand to support us; we are struggling together, but alone. Over the last [...]
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