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The fight for control must take place where it really matters: in the arenas of everyday life

Posted on 4 March, 201815 June, 2019 by preorg

Renting a home in London can be a living nightmare. Renters feel little control over their own homes, are forbidden to hang pictures on a wall, or take up state support in hard times. Their happiness and mental health is held hostage to the whims of landlords who refuse to do essential repairs or enter…

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On being a commoner

Posted on 4 March, 201815 June, 2019 by preorg

The idea of commoning is on the rise, or rather, is having a resurgence. Talk of the commons appears in unexpected places, from the radical to the less so. From a marginal idea a few years ago it has drifted, with the help of digital technology, into a position where parties and campaigners refer to…

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Own everything together

Posted on 4 March, 201815 June, 2019 by preorg

We live in times of high political turbulence. Surveying flailing governments from Spain to the United States, it seems a good moment to face up to the evidence of system failures that face us. Millions going to food banks or unable to afford decent housing in the richest countries in the world reveals a systems failure. An…

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New Cross fights new wave of housing privatisation

Posted on 4 March, 201815 June, 2019 by preorg

Residents of New Cross, London have rejected the borough of Lewisham’s proposal to build council-owned private rental housing on public land. The council plans to run a profit-making housing business in an area of deprivation and housing need. “We want more council housing, not private housing. The council just wants to make money,” said a…

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People I met in Cuba

Posted on 15 February, 201815 June, 2019 by preorg

Ana Maria owns the casa in which I’m staying. She is talkative, enthusiastic, and helpful. When we entered the room I was to stay in, I put down my bags. She promptly moved them to what she felt to be a more appropriate place. Her advice on restaurants and buses and places to go has…

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Politics in a time of crisis by Pablo Iglesias: A review

Posted on 15 September, 201715 June, 2019 by preorg

This work by Pablo Iglesias, leader of insurgent Spanish party Podemos, is now subtitled ‘Podemos and the future of a Democratic Europe’. It wouldn’t have been so originally, because Podemos did not exist when the book was first written. This makes the book of historical interest, though the addition of appendices in this 2015 edition…

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Why did anti-globalisation fail and anti-globalism succeed?

Posted on 26 August, 201715 June, 2019 by preorg

Across the world the political centre ground is disappearing, and the new enemy of the people is globalism. Watching the rise of the nationalist right is particularly frustrating if, like me, you took part in protests in the late 1990s and early 2000s against globalisation. These protests for a few years united the radical left…

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Why you probably shouldn’t become a Community Interest Company

Posted on 4 December, 201622 August, 2019 by preorg

Imagine you have sacrificed hundreds of hours of your volunteering time to a non-profit organisation doing good work. After years of effort, often exhaustion, you discover that the directors don’t care that much about whether you succeeded in helping those people you intended to help. They care mostly about how much time they can spend…

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Organisations=people=relationships=politics

Posted on 3 November, 201629 June, 2019 by preorg

I’ve written about organisations on this blog, and I’ve written about people, and I’ve written about politics. What I haven’t talked about enough is relationships. I’ve been meaning to write this post for a couple of weeks but was finally prompted to do it today by this story about the role of Blair’s personal leadership…

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The Corbyn insurgency: why it’s really not the Trots

Posted on 21 August, 2016 by preorg

Curious things keep happening in UK and US politics. The pundits are puzzled: why do Trump, Sanders, Corbyn exist? Why Brexit? A collective madness has settled over the populations of these countries, is the impression you might get from reading seasoned commentators. Ordinary people keep deciding things that make no sense to those who rule…

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