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Entries from July 2009
July 20, 2009
Irish Greens vote to back Lisbon Treaty
Contrary to how it may seem at the moment this blog was not created to attack the Greens, though there have been a number of articles critical of them on it recently.
We will be posting other material, but this one just popped up in the Morning Star today, and just couldn’t be ignored: The Irish [...]
July 20, 2009
Joscka Fischer, The Oil Pipeline and the Secretary of State
Whilst checking activity on the blog over the weekend I came across a comment that was just a link. Feeling a bit tired and snippy my first thought was to delete it thinking that if people want to say something they could at least type rather than just copying and pasting.
However I [...]
July 16, 2009
“The Iran upheaval – what do socialists say?” Ian Donovan
Below is the text for a talk that Ian Donovan gave at a meeting in Birmingham and for Southwark Respect.
Originally when I was asked to do this presentation, I was planning to speak about the history of the Iranian revolution and the Islamic republic, where it came from, to help people understand where it [...]
July 12, 2009
Are the Greens an alternative?
The success of the Greens in the Euro elections poses some important questions for the left on how to deal with them. Here is a contribution to this discussion from Alastair Stevens.
The failure of the left in England and Wales to create a viable electoral force, and the relative success of the Greens has [...]
July 5, 2009
“Left unity and Class Politics” by Ian Donovan
This is a contribution to the debate about the results of the European and local elections by Ian Donovan.
The analysis of the Euro Elections by Salma Yaqoob (Statement on the euro-election results, 8th June), makes a number of pertinent observations about the reasons for the disaster of the BNP’s winning two seats in the European [...]
