[PDF file]: […] Labour Party from its links with the trade union movement, which he believed had long outlived its usefulness, and to instead make it the party of the liberal super rich. Labour would be turned into a British version of the Clinton-led Democratic Party, funded by the liberal wing of the ruling class. Brown, however, […]
[PDF file]: […] Michael Gove (the last two quite shamelessly placing their own ambitions ahead of the national welfare). Pressure groups such as Economists for Free Trade (EFT: basically the liberal economic ideologue Patrick Minford), encouraged by unjustifiably generous media treatment given the outfit’s actual size and weight in the field of applied economics, have not helped. […]
[PDF file]: […] was an entirely legal meeting of a local branch of a mainstream political party. In HN298’s ‘First Witness Statement’ he said of his penetration of the Young Liberal branch: ‘I did not discuss taking up this post with my managers beforehand.’ He then goes straight on to claim ‘I do not remember them saying […]
[…] few advisors, and seemed resistant to reaching out beyond their small inner circle.’ What does this sound like? It sounds like NuLab. And it sounds like the Liberal Democrats. All three major parties are now in the grip of little cliques with predictable consequences: as the parties’ members are not of interest or value […]
[PDF file]: […] the major political parties, leaving no settled institutional outlet for opposition or the construction of alternative policies and strategies. The most telling example of this was the Liberal performance last year: having gone into the General Election on a Keynesian politicoeconomic platform some way to the left of the other two major parties, they […]
[PDF file]: […] he and Joe Kennedy watched on television as Joe’s son received the Democratic Party’s nomination for presidential candidate. Harry remarked that he assumed Kennedy would take a liberal stance on domestic matters if elected president. Joe told him: ‘Harry, you know goddamn well that no son of mine could ever be a goddamn liberal.’ […]
[PDF file]: Covid-19 and the intellectuals Scott Newton Thanks to Covid-19, there is a crisis of public health and political economy currently engulfing many leading liberal capitalist states. Progressive politicians in these countries have no adequate answers and are reduced to complaining about governmental incompetence and technical glitches. (Just look at the British Labour Party’s response […]
[PDF file]: […] Genocide Accords until a ‘sovereignty’ clause was inserted for protection against possible prosecution of U.S. citizens in defiance of universal political discourses and legal codes. From the liberal architects of technowar in Vietnam to the Bush Gang, the U.S. is guilty of genocide from the native Indians to Indochina to Iraq – the latter […]
[PDF file]: […] as a doctor he purchased a practice (these were pre-NHS days) in the working class district of Thornton Heath near Croydon. He stood for parliament as a Liberal candidate unsuccessfully on two occasions (once as an unofficial Liberal candidate), later switched to the Conservatives and was elected MP for Carlisle in 1954, a seat […]
[…] the Pope’s recent encyclical letter, Fratelli Tutti. ‘168. The marketplace, by itself, cannot resolve every problem, however much we are asked to believe this dogma of neo liberal faith. Whatever the challenge, this impoverished and repetitive school of thought always offers the same recipes. Neoliberalism simply reproduces itself by resorting to the magic theories […]
