-
Your Party needs to announce a day of meet-ups for signees, whether that is at a regional level, or at a more local level – It has to be the first step in growing the party, otherwise, we risk the same people, doing the same stuff, facing the same problems, making the same mistakes, and…
-
If the flagmaniacs really wanted to help our communities, they’d swap symbolism for solidarity and put in the hard graft and help their neighbours by putting food on tables, opening warm spaces, sorting out kids’ uniforms, lifts to hospital, checking in on elderly neighbours, supporting one another, instead of dividing each other.
-
First, let’s address the elephant in the room: these are not protests. A protest organised to change policy – in this case, the UK having a heart and offering housing and support to asylum seekers – wouldn’t be targeting hotels. It would be targeting policy-makers, not the powerless individuals receiving that support.
-
We are in the grips of a mental health crisis in this country, and one that is getting worse, and far from address it, it looks like the government is going to absolve itself of responsibility and blame doctors and the mentally ill. Is this the kind of government we want to represent us, one…
-
I don’t want to patronise you and explain this crisis, you’re living it, we all know what the crisis is. We can’t afford shit and those in charge can afford whatever the fuck they like because for them, times have never been better, while for us times have never been harder. What I will do…
-
We are denying this right to thousands of individuals, some of whom are fleeing from wars we started, fleeing from communities we destroyed, and fleeing traumatic experiences that we ourselves instigated. We have a responsibility, this isn’t a refugee crisis, it is a humanity crisis and it’s time we took action.
-
What are these rallies for? They seem to be held in theatre halls and behind closed doors, open to those who have got tickets and are therefore clearly already invested in the project. They pack these people in to halls to hear the same old stuff from the same old people. We don’t need to…
-
Simply put; we cannot rely on the establishment to keep our stories alive, we cannot rely on them to keep our history alive, we cannot rely on them to give the working class opportunities and we cannot trust them to authentically depict us.
-
We have witnessed in the last decade a sea change in our politics, the far rights influence has crashed waves over the political landscape, the SNP parted the red sea and for a brief time socialism shone like a beacon across the land. In the immortal words of Bob Dylan Times They Are A Changin’.…
-
Subscribe
Subscribed
Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
Solidarity Steve 