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14th November Movement for Left Unity

love detective said:
usual building castles in the air stuff isn't it, and this (if i'm reading it correctly).....


...... is total arse about tit in the usual top down lefty assumption that nothing can, or should, be done until the 'complete strategy that a party needs' has been agreed/decided in advance (not to mention the fact that the phrase used is almost illogical to read 'cannot remain inactive until it has....'(??). pretty much a snapshot of everything that's wrong about the left and left top down a priori attempts to do something

also amusing that it then argues for a 'more limited platform' and then goes on to list every single lefty cliche bingo buzz policy under the sun - without any kind of awareness that until the left in this country achieve any kind of credibility, attraction and influence in their own backyard in relation to the day to day dogshit then they are never going to be in a position or carry the weight that enables them to even think about being able to have any influence in relation to any of the things listed on that list

it then shoehorns democracy in at the very end when it comes to talking about the means to achieve the ends but the ends are given in the usual top down a priori way without so much as a recognition that both the ends, and the means to achieve them, should arise out of the process, not be top down inputs into or starting points of the process
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I think you have misunderstood the statement "cannot remain inactive" to mean must be inactive. That is the opposite of what it said. This is why you think it is the wrong way around.
 
you're right i did read it incorrectly

I had to re-read that phrase about a million times until I got it though!

the criticism still stands though about the 'more limited platform' and democratising of ends & means
 
The call out from Ken Loach, was refreshing, the use of media to reach the masses, without hesitation I signed up, excited about the potential for the debate about a party that at its’ heart was as passionate about the survival of the welfare state and the working class as I am.
Hoping that someone else would step forward to take the lead in Northampton, was a pipe dream, so I reached out and I now am the organiser for Northants. Having had five showings of the Spirit of ’45 and over 300 people joining me to see the film, several informal meetings to begin the debate and a first “official” branch meeting connecting Northants imminent; I feel excited about the prospect about meeting each person and sharing the experience of the first national meeting.

Bianca Todd

http://leftunity.org/the-dogs-might-bark-but-the-caravan-rolls-on/
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There are a few Urbanites in Northampton, maybe the above sounds positive.
 
I've just got in touch with the South Wales co-ordinator to see whether it's something I could be a part of. I'm really not particularly political, but it grieves my conscience to stand idly by as the entire political establishment lurches ever-further to the right, and seems to be dragging the unthinking hordes into a kind of underclass-hating frenzy of Thatcheresque self-servingness: I feel I have to do something.
 
Far be it from me to agree with articul8, but Becker's article seems broadly correct in most of its assessments. That treelover is appalled by it only provides further support.

(A small, snide, part of me also enjoyed the horrified responses in the comments to a bit of bracing polemic).
 
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