We’re considering changing the way we source and price our t-shirts and we want your feedback but first some background information. Over a year ago we moved from printing on Fruit of the Loom and Starworld t-shirts to printing on Continental Earth Positive Shirts. The motivation for this was the decision by FoL, despite promising [...]
Unite Community Bedroom Tax Leaflet
Got sent this and can’t find it on Unite’s own site so I’ve put it here. It’s well worth a read bed1
Identity. It Tells You Almost Nothing.
A few years ago in Birmingham I went to a public meeting for the launch of a political party. The party was founded and led by a mixed race, working class woman. At the meeting there was a disabled person who occasionally said “it’s new, isn’t it Sharon?”, there was no shouting down of this [...]
Privilege Theory. The Poltics of Defeat.
I’ve been blissfully ignorant of these ideas of privilege and the concept of checking it until very recently. It came across my radar after the fall out of a twitter row. A set of ideas were put forward, and argument was made. The response to this argument boiled down to the person was writing it [...]
Disagreeing With Laurie Penny Makes you Sexist.
We don’t normally take much notice of spats on Twitter unless we’re lucky enough to directly involved. They blow up, they die down and the 140 character limit means it’s rare that anything of real value gets written between the vitriol. On Sunday Laurie Penny excelled herself with the 140 character limit and showed how [...]
We (the working class). All in it Together.
This post, a short one, as been prompted by a bitter personal experience one that I’m sure others will be able to relate to. As a rule us plebs haven’t being having a great time of things for a while now. Our conditions have been under attack long before the financial crisis and the recession. [...]
Julian Assange. Lessons from Ned Ludd
Julian Assange is big news, a divisive figure who’s a hero of free speech to some and a rapist to others. To me, regardless of the rape allegations he’s both a self aggrandising twat and warning about self aggrandising twats. When the Luddites began what would become armed insurrection in 1811 they described themselves as [...]
Class is Everything
On twitter the other day Owen Jones started the tag #leftyancestors. The idea was that people shared their stories about the their ancestors involved in struggle. Lauris Penny made the comment heredity can be an unhelpful discourse on the left. I replied to this that being working class is kind of hereditary and the that [...]
If you Don’t Vote, You Can’t Complain
If you don’t vote, you can’t complain. We’ve all heard it said, it’s a tired old cliché and I’ve had enough of it. It goes hand in hand with other statements such as “vote Labour to stop the BNP”. They represent a fundamental misunderstanding of what politics is. The first one can just as easily [...]
Filling the Vacuum
Over the last few weeks I’ve been trying to put together a blog post about anti-fascism in the UK and its relationship to the state of the economy . A few days ago Paul Mason posted about the collapse of the political centre in Europe after the National Front polled 18% in the presidential elections. [...]
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