Voting for Bedroom Tax, legitimising attacks on Roma … Oh Little Nicky Clegg! He’s a sheep in ba-lamb clothing,A bugger born to beg,The wolves they want their mojo backFrom little Nicky Clegg. In fits and starts, he’s good in parts,A proper curate’s egg,Sold his soul for a minor roleAnd cut away his legs. You’ve nixed […]
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MADAM MIAOW’S CULTURE LOUNGE 4/8News, music and poetryRESONANCE 104.4FMPresented by Anna Chen5.30-6.30pm Tuesday 5th NovemberListen liveorlisten later online THERE IS NO RECESSION AT THE TOP The Super Rich Guests: Aditya Chakrabortty and Kate Belgrave. With Charles Shaar Murray. In this Tuesday’s Madam Miaow’s Culture Lounge on Resonance FM, Anna Chen turns her attention to the
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Cultural Revolution — 29th October 2013. An anarchist, a Trotskyist and a communist walk into a studio … Find out what happens next by listening to Madam Miaow’s Culture Lounge at 5.30pm on Resonance FM. This week, Anna Chen looks at what happens to culture during a time of revolution. What are the ideals? What
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Russell Brand’s Newsnight interview which propelled the current smashing up of lives by the Tory mindset into the mainstream discourse made me wonder what the left groups have been doing to help matters. Because they’ve been awfully quiet. The Tories have been marauding through the nation (although it seems to be a global phenomenon at
A guest post from my friend, John Wight. First published at Socialist Unity, 27 September 2013. I personally wouldn’t shoplift unless I was pauperised and hungry, but maybe that’s the bourgeois brainwashing I acquired as a kid growing up in Hackney. I would add, however, that when my purse containing not only cash and all
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I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of white women in the left who offered me warmth and support as a sister while I was an activist. So it is with pleasure that I see one black American feminist, Mikki Kendall, stirring it up with the brilliantly exasperated Twitter hashtag, #solidarityisforwhitewomen. I recently attempted
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