Political Strategy
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 | 2 Comments
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 [...]
Does the action of the Sparks herald a return to militancy?
Posted on September 29, 2011 by Alasdair Thompson | No Comments
Two years ago a wave of militant industrial action swept across the UK. As the global financial crisis unfolded, neo-liberal capitalism seemed to be in crisis, banks were nationalised, and bankers vilified, billions were poured into stimulus packages and for a brief moment it appeared as if an opportunity existed for a reconfiguration of our [...]
Anti anti-growth and the fallacy of economics
Posted on September 26, 2011 by Alex Wood | 12 Comments
As our current economic model continues to drive us relentlessly towards the precipice of cataclysmic environmental destruction. While simultaneously forcing us to contemplate a ‘lost decade’ of stagnate high unemployment, reduction in the social wage and mass poverty. People are increasingly questioning the logic of a system based upon growth and the boom and bust [...]
Machiavelli: power, transition and institutional change
Posted on September 17, 2011 by Ric Lander | No Comments
In 1513 Machiavelli provided a seminal analysis of the flow of power in Europe. The ideas defined in “The Prince” have inspired political thinkers ever since. At the time his acute, perhaps cynical, understanding of power, made him notorious, and his works were added to the Vatican’s list of banned literature. Today his name has [...]
Would a new Scottish Tory party succeed? Not under Murdo Fraser
Posted on September 7, 2011 by Adam Ramsay | 4 Comments
Murdo Fraser, deputy leader of the Scottish Conservatives, has made headlines by proposing that his party split from the Tories in England. Like Bavaria’s CSU, they would support the Tory leader at Westminster. But they would be their own party, who chose their own policy, set their own direction. I say like the CSU. Perhaps [...]
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