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GAUCHE A libertarian democratic socialist blog by Paul Anderson

English - British Politics, Llibertarian Socialism, Democratic Socialism
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GAUCHE · 2W ago

THE CO-OP'S REAL PROBLEM

Tribune column, 29 November 2013 Maybe I’m a naïve libertarian, but I can’t be that bothered whether the Reverend Paul Flowers, the Methodist minister who was chairman of the Co-operative ...
GAUCHE · 1M ago

SANDBROOK ON THE COLD WAR

I’ve just caught up on the first instalment of Dominic Sandbrook’s BBC TV series Strange Days: Cold War Britain, first aired on Tuesday. It’s a very mixed bag. There is some good archive fo...
GAUCHE · 1M ago

A QUESTION

GAUCHE · 1M ago

HONDOOTEDLY MOSSIS THATCHER

I had the privilege, briefly, of editing John Cole, who has just died, at the New Statesman in the 1990s, after he had retired from the BBC and became the paper's main political columnist. H...
GAUCHE · 1M ago

LOU REED WAS MY TEENAGE HERO

Tribune column, 1 November 2013 There’s one song every band can play. If the words don’t ring a bell: Standing on a corner Suitcase in my hand the riff will do it for you. Da – da, da, di, ...
GAUCHE · 2M ago

LABOUR TRAITORS?

Tribune, 18 October 2013 The Daily Mail’s assertion that Ralph Miliband, father of Labour leader Ed, was a stooge of the Soviet Union who ‘hated Britain’ has created a massive storm. But it...
GAUCHE · 2M ago

FUTURE PROSPECTS

Tribune column, 4 October 2013 It’s taken long enough, but at last Ed Miliband seems to be finding a distinctive voice. His speech at Labour conference in Brighton was less than earth-shatt...
GAUCHE · 2M ago

RIGHT AND WRONG

Review of Robert Colls, George Orwell: English Rebel (Oxford University Press, £25), Tribune, 4 October 2013 I started Robert Colls’s new biography of George Orwell with some trepidation. C...
GAUCHE · 2M ago

REMEMBER: THE DAILY MAIL WAS PRO-NAZI

The Daily Mail has provoked a storm with its idiotic attempt to portray Ralph Miliband, the Marxist intellectual father of Ed, as somehow unpatriotic because, as a young Jewish refugee from ...
GAUCHE · 2M ago

IT'S SELLING LIKE LUKEWARM BUNS!

Here's the Amazon sales ranking for Moscow Gold? The Soviet Union and the British left by Paul Anderson and Kevin Davey. Buy it now! NICK COHEN says:'Moscow Gold? The Soviet Union an...
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