Archive for June, 2011
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Internationalism in One Small Island
17 Jun 2011
I attended the launch of Coalition of Resistance in Glasgow last week, a fantastic event with a participative format, which was a refreshing change - a few short speeches were followed by lots of practical group discussions among a wide range of activists. It was a great launch, and to help us on our …
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On listening to the Straight White Males
17 Jun 2011
Difficulties in addressing issues of gender, race and sexuality are notoriously fraught with difficulty. Sometimes, an issue is so common and accepted that you don’t actually see it. Sometimes there are real cries of anguish masked in attention seeking behaviour, and sometimes there is genuine confusion behind crass attempts to …
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Cuts & the Independence Movement
05 Jun 2011
They say that nothing is certain in life but death and taxes. Over the next five years, if the UK government has its way, public sector spending cuts can be added to that unhappy list of certainties. While the Scottish Government may have a level of control over where the …
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The Proper English
03 Jun 2011As a young teacher in a multicultural school in West London, with a reasonably serious level of interracial conflict among the children, I was asked to deliver a programme of anti-racist education to 13 year old children. As with much of the material that was produced at the time, it …