TIME TO FUCKING STAND

Posted on December 6, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged 2016, alt-right, authoritarian states, bigotry, capitalism, Cathy Newman, daily mail, DAPL, dread, dreams, Erdogan, Europe, facts, fake news, fascism, fear, fight back, First Nations, future, get ready, Golden Dawn, hate crimes, homophobia, humans, individualism, Italy referendum, Junot Diaz, Kashmir, KKK, Lind Tirado, Marine Le Pen, Modi, Movimento 5 Stelle, mysogny, neo nazi, neoliberalism, North Dakota, Orban, Pakistan, politics, putin, racism, radical hope, refugee camp, resist, Roland Martin, sarah kendzior, Snoopers Charter, standards, taking a stand, Teen Vogue, transphobia, Trevor Noah, US, violence, white nationalism, write.

by Alex Valente

Content warning: mentions racism, xenophobia, bigotry, homophobia, transphobia, misogyny, and the general mess that is 2016.

And so the world has suddenly changed, again, seemingly even louder than before. For a lot of people who claim to be interested in following politics, nationally or internationally, the events of the past month can feel like a shock. We’ve all trying to find someone to blame, someone to accuse, someone to stand in front of us as we look in a mirror, and global media has been having a field-day of think-pieces on the issue. But quite frankly, who cares?

We fucked up. We’ve been doing so for a long time. We’ve been doing so with every time we didn’t speak up, stand up, stand in the way of neoliberalism, aggressive capitalism, individualism and their opening the gates to full-on, fully backed racism, xenophobia, bigotry, homophobia, transphobia, misogyny and so many other horrors that not even patriarchy-mythologised Pandora could be blamed for them all.Continue Reading

SYRIZA AND THE LEFT: WE MUST UNITE TO DEFEAT AUSTERITY AND FASCISM

Posted on February 14, 2015 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged EU, Golden Dawn, Greece, Labour, norwich, politics, Syriza, the left, the right, UKIP.

by David Peel

The neoliberal strategy of austerity has suffered its first serious reverse in the election of Syriza to power in Greece. However, the euphoria at that victory on the Left has been strangely muted, almost as if, like the Greeks, we cannot bring ourselves to believe it.

Perhaps we have felt this to be a peculiarly Greek phenomenon, even a Southern European thing. After all, Podemos in Spain seems to be heading in the same direction. Even the doyen of late capitalism, Alan Greenspan, has made similar recent observations. Alongside his prediction of the death of the Euro, he noted it could never work without European political harmonisation. And this he thought inconceivable, because of the differences between Northern and Southern peoples and states.Continue Reading

THE FLAG OF HATE RISES OVER EUROPE

Posted on May 26, 2014 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged EU, Europe, far right, front nationale, Golden Dawn, neo nazi, politics, protest vote, Syriza, UKIP, vote.

by Chris Jarvis.

With results from all countries except Ireland, the European elections depict a bleak picture. Across the continent, an array of hard right parties has seen electoral success as the vote has swung in their direction. Ranging from the latent, little Englander racism of UKIP, to the Muslim hating nationalism of the Front Nationale and the openly fascistic Golden Dawn, they all, at root, have a core based in the politics of division, the politics of fear and the politics of hate.

Of course, they are not all the same. UKIP are not wholly comparable to Golden Dawn, whose representatives have holocaust deniers among their ranks or Hungary’s Jobbik, whose Deputy Parliamentary leader has referred to those with Jewish ancestry as a threat to their nation’s security. To claim them as the same would be to downplay the truly repugnant and terrifying anti-Semitism of some of the parties who will be taking seats in the new European parliament.

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TIME TO FUCKING STAND

SYRIZA AND THE LEFT: WE MUST UNITE TO DEFEAT AUSTERITY AND FASCISM

THE FLAG OF HATE RISES OVER EUROPE

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