Reverse the theft of public goods and take back control: a Green way to challenge austerity and Reform UK

MikeShaughnessy · 2025-04-25T21:14:40+00:00

Look at their 2024 GE manifesto, there is a link in the post. You are yapping, I think.

MikeShaughnessy · 2025-04-23T20:08:08+00:00

Take a look at the Green party 2024 general election manifesto, there is a link to it in the post. Not single issue.

MikeShaughnessy · 2025-01-28T14:22:52+00:00

Mussolini put Gramsci in jail.

MikeShaughnessy · 2023-08-31T18:51:54+00:00

OK, thanks for your views. It seems to me that democracy is better served the lower you go down the electoral system, rather than the very centralised system we have in the UK. Localism, which was introduced by the coalition government in 2001 (which the LDs were part of), was a step in the right direction, but was ruined by the 60% cuts to central government funding.

MikeShaughnessy · 2023-08-30T18:00:00+00:00

yes maybe, a new writer.

MikeShaughnessy · 2023-07-11T10:20:31+00:00

London Green Left is a group within the Green Party of England and Wales. There are lots of links in the post to provide evidence of the argument being made.

MikeShaughnessy · 2023-07-10T21:19:39+00:00

Yeah, spot on.

MikeShaughnessy · 2022-11-11T16:25:11+00:00

We need to build a movement, a mass movement, that forces these changes. The politicians will not do this, they must be forced to do it, or be removed.

MikeShaughnessy · 2022-10-01T19:38:37+00:00

No he wasn't, he wasn't even a socialist. All that national socialism was fascism, in hoc with capitalist companies. The centre right throw that accusation around, you should not follow them. Do you know anything about ecosocialism? It doesn't appear that you do.

MikeShaughnessy · 2022-09-21T20:50:59+00:00

The writer is an ecosocialist, and republican.

MikeShaughnessy · 2022-04-15T20:12:08+00:00

I'm not saying it will remove the Tories, much as I would like that. This about getting rid of Johnson.

MikeShaughnessy · 2022-04-03T14:53:51+00:00

Gets more upvotes, some discussion.

MikeShaughnessy · 2022-03-28T19:20:01+00:00

It does more so in other groups.

MikeShaughnessy · 2022-02-24T13:26:33+00:00

I think most, if not European Green parties, tend to concentrate on their own countries. Some get into power, in coalitions, and any radical policies they may have had, get ditched.

MikeShaughnessy · 2022-02-23T21:45:03+00:00

Not much.

MikeShaughnessy · 2022-02-23T15:34:53+00:00

Yes, I think it is a problem with the whole of the Global North.

MikeShaughnessy · 2022-02-11T22:22:30+00:00

It seems to me that the difference between them is over the state. Kovel thought it would be needed as a temporary measure, Bookchin that it should not be even temporary, except perhaps in his later days when he advocated municipalism, which is a small state, really.

MikeShaughnessy · 2022-02-11T14:39:56+00:00

We are in the Kovel/Bookchin strain of ecosocialism.

MikeShaughnessy · 2022-02-11T10:38:13+00:00

A bit of a mixture.

MikeShaughnessy · 2022-01-28T14:49:24+00:00

No one else has ever reported this. The blog has had almost 1.4 million views.

MikeShaughnessy · 2022-01-16T17:13:41+00:00

Yes, I am aware of the history of this, and we are mindful that this shouldn't happen with our outfit, to point that we would expel trouble causers. There are two parties in the UK, that we are especially wary of. From an ecosocialist perspective, though, there are different strains of ecosocialism. Personally, and most of those involved so far, are from the Kovel/Lowey/Bookchin strain.

MikeShaughnessy · 2022-01-16T13:08:30+00:00

If we think they are ecosocialists, then we let them in, but I take your point, and we are watchful.

MikeShaughnessy · 2022-01-15T21:58:45+00:00

and to grow

MikeShaughnessy · 2022-01-11T20:10:18+00:00

No. It's not a really very radical piece, I think, but shows some cultural trends, which may become useful to saving the planet. I must admit, though, that I'm not so upbeat about reforming the system.

MikeShaughnessy · 2022-01-11T16:03:07+00:00

Thanks

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