Tag Politics

UK election: Total destruction to your mind

The votes are in and the Conservative Party have crossed the threshold necessary to form a government. Their partners in coalition, the Liberal Democrats, have seen their votes drop from 62 to 8. The Labour party are in second place…

Our two-party oppositional bicycle race. Who gains?

Tim Rutten, LA Times A Pew survey shows that the most politically engaged Americans are now fundamentally opposed to compromise and split on virtually every issue. It’s a landscape California has traversed for years. The Hankster, which covers the fast…

You say you want a revolution

Micah White, contributing editor at Adbusters says we do indeed need a revolution. Everywhere we look there are signs of moral decay, political corruption and fascistic tendencies. However, activists have not been passive. For decades, since the end of democracy…

Why is the left so comatose here?

Sherlock in the comments to our post On the protests in Europe and the lack of them here You don’t get why there are no leftist movements in the U.S.? It’s because ever since Reagan poisoned the American working-class, rugged…

The ‘limping left’ may need a sip of tea

Lawrence Lessig, founder of Change Congress and activist for clean government says the anti-corruption goals of the Tea Party are admirable and that the left should work towards the same goals. Traditional liberals will no doubt be driven batty by…