for lefties too stubborn to quit
Gewerkschaftler suggested this recently:
I suggest this blog should have a regular (weekly) slot where people can post happenings at the personal or political level that gives them hope that we’re perhaps not going to hell in a handbasket as quickly as we thought. Or as the phlegmatic Germans put it “hope dies last”.
Any contributions this week?
| Et Pluribus on What you want to say – 8th May… | |
| banjoagbeanjoe on That Irish Labour campaign… | |
| banjoagbeanjoe on That Irish Labour campaign… | |
| alanmyler on That Irish Labour campaign… | |
| banjoagbeanjoe on That Irish Labour campaign… | |
| Michael Carley on What you want to say – 8th May… | |
| irishfabian+ on That Irish Labour campaign… | |
| irishfabian+ on That Irish Labour campaign… | |
| banjoagbeanjoe on What you want to say – 8th May… | |
| Paul Culloty on That Starmer government in… | |
| benmadigan on Disapplying Acts to NI | |
| Wes Ferry on What you want to say – 8th May… | |
| Wes Ferry on What you want to say – 8th May… | |
| Swastika cut into po… on Another attack on election… | |
| tomasoflatharta on Another attack on election… |
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There are plenty of special status half-in-half-out precedents for the North of Ireland after Brexit. If it happens.
The difference is I guess that they have:
a) Mostly rather more sunshine hours per anum
b) No DUP
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One of the best issues for mobilising a broad range of younger people against capitalism is permanent debt-slavery to student-loan-sharks. The promise of help with these including a possible abolition was a major win for Corbyn among young people.
These balls-and-chains around the ankles of young people has spawned, as ever in heavily financialised capitalism, a grey market where these loans are bought and sold on.
The predators that seek to profit from these loans have their eyes on the rent to be extracted and little time for the legal niceties. Consequently, a significant tranche may never be collected because the titles have been lost in the process of selling on.
As Cory Doctorow notes:
If the collapse of sub-prime student and car loans ‘market’ leads to the next financial crisis – bring it on, I say.
This time we won’t be conned into bailing them out.
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The promise of help with these including a possible abolition was a major win for Corbyn among young people.
And at most for half the cost of Trident, too!
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Does this count? http://chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2017/07/could-brexiters-be-best-hope-for.html
It sounds a bit unlikely to me ….
bjg
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Yeah, me too.
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The basic argument is sound – the utter headbanging way the Tories have gone about Brexit could well scupper it.
It’s uncertain but the best hope – if like me you think that Brexit is bad for the working class of the UK and Ireland, that ‘socialism/social democracy in one country’ is even less plausible than it was in the 1980s when the Bennite dogma about the EU was set in stone, and that there is a real danger of falling back into competing/waring nationalisms in densely populated part of Eurasia – is that come Spring 2019 the actual existing Brexit on offer or exit without agreement will fall to a free vote.
As Grey notes:
Plasticity is the key. Is the British Labour party willing to recognise that the European dimension of many of its younger voters is important to them, and that Labour will loose them if they impose a whip on the Brexit vote as they did on the Queens Speech vote amendment.?
John McDonnell is reportedly more plastic than Corbyn in this respect.
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