WHY IS THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY NOT PUSHING TO ENTER THE US UNDER THE RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT?

Posted on July 21, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged anti black, antifa, BAME, barr, black, black lives matter, burundi, CHAZ, Donald Trump, featured, george floyd, iraq, ken cuccinelli, neoliberal, police brutality, police violence, policing, portland, poverty, prison, race, racism, reparations, responsibility to protect, suicide, Syria, system, uk.

by Sarah Edgcumbe

CW: racism, violence, police brutality, suicide

I’ll admit, the title of this article is posed in a slightly tongue-in-cheek manner, but the underlying premise points to two concurring factors: the hypocrisy and northern hemisphere-bias underpinning global governance, and the distinct shift towards authoritarianism that we are currently seeing in Trump’s America; the latter possibly justifying intervention under the Responsibility to Protect doctrine. The Trump administration’s current bent towards authoritarianism is not mere hyperbole, nor the incendiary Twitter-ranting of an orange mad man, but a dark and extremely worrying leap towards the kind of repression that characterizes Assad’s Syria, or the recent kidnappings in Iraq, wherein those protesting against the regime are bundled into unmarked cars and whisked away into the night. Continue Reading

WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT THE RIOTING AND THE LOOTING

Posted on June 10, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged #SayHerName, abolition, ahmaud arbery, Akala, anti black, BAME, belly mujinga, black, black lives matter, breonna taylor, CHAZ, coronavirus, derek chauvin, featured, george floyd, judah adunbi, loot, macpherson, mustafa dikec, neoliberal, paulo freire, police brutality, police violence, policing, poverty, prison, race, racism, reparations, say their name, Seattle, Stephen Lawrence, system, tony mcdade, uk, zygmunt bauman.

by Sarah Edgcumbe

CW: racism, violence, police brutality

We need to talk about the rioting. And the looting. And the destruction of statues during recent Black Lives Matter protests. We really do. The failure to recognise the entrenched nature of historical and enduring structural violence in both the US and the UK speaks volumes in terms of the normalization of oppression, enforced poverty, racism and discrimination in contemporary society. Whilst there are certainly white victims of structural violence, it is an irrefutable fact that Black or minority ethnic communities experience the most severe intersecting consequences – not as uncomfortable rarities, but as a grinding, every day, relentless struggle, which as we have seen in the case of George Floyd along with so many other black men, women and youth, can too often have fatal results.Continue Reading

THE ACID TEST OF ‘BRITISHNESS’: DEFERENCE TO POLITICAL ELITES OR DEFENCE OF DEMOCRACY?

Posted on April 21, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged Boris Johnson, british politics, Britishness, citizneship, corporations, Covid-19, democracy, economy, elections, featured, freedom of speech, freedoms, media, nationalism, neoliberal, NHS, Perspectives, political participation, politics, poverty, rights, social welfare, society.

by Sarah Edgcumbe

The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic continues to have disastrous consequences for many people around the globe who have lost loved ones, or who are struggling to cope financially due to livelihood disruption. Domestic violence rates have increased at a staggering rate, whilst loneliness and uncertainty are having a negative effect on many people’s mental health. It is amidst these turbulent times that once again, much like the train-wreck of Brexit, the acid test of “Britishness” seems to be qualified by how deferential people can be to the political elite, as opposed to how willing they are to defend democracy and the welfare of Britain’s citizens and residents.

THE EU WASN’T ALL THAT GOOD (BUT WE SHOULD HAVE STAYED ANYWAY) – PART II

Posted on February 28, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged Boris Johnson, Brexit, commentary, conservatives, criticism, demagogue, democracy, EU, Europe, fact checking, featured, fortress europe, fraud, government, Greece, ideology, immigration, Leave, myth, myth busting, neoliberal, no deal, Parliament, Pax Europeae, peace, politics, power, referendum, Remain, TTIP, uk.

By Jonathan Lee

Part I of this article can be found here.

Since the United Kingdom signed the Withdrawal Agreement and formally left the European Union on 31st January, Remainers and Leavers are just as polarised as they ever were. Much of the rhetoric from Leavers and Remainers demonstrates a warped understanding of what the EU actually is and how it works. In this part, we address a few notable example of the things which both sides get very, very wrong.

BUS W@NKERS

Posted on August 17, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged access, bus, bus company, bus service, bus wanker, buses, class, commuters, Enrique Peñalosa, ethical, featured, first bus, inbetweeners, liberalisation, mobility, nationalise, neoliberal, ownership, profit, public ownership, rail, renationalise, rural, shareholders, snobbery, transport, transport act.

by Matthew John White

I doubt that the brilliant gross-out teen comedy The Inbetweeners invented the term ‘bus wankers’, but it certainly dragged it into popular culture. In Series 2, Episode 4, which first aired in 2009, arch gross-merchant Jay shouts the insult in question from the window of a moving car. The phrase is now firmly mainstream. You’ll often see it in social media comments: “my car’s at the garage so I’m being a bus wanker today”, or “can’t wait to pass my driving test so i can stop being a bus wanker”. A Facebook group named ‘bus wankers!‘ is liked by 93 thousand people.

Derision of bus users isn’t always achieved with this phrase, of course. Just the other day, while discussing a trip to London over a pub garden pint, a friend of a friend loudly asked “Who over the age of 30 gets a bus?”, accidentally (I hope!) paraphrasing an apocryphal Thatcher quote in the process. Yet ‘bus wankers’ has become the standard, convenient, go-to expression for such mockery.Continue Reading

HELPING PEOPLE SEE THE ECONOMY ANEW

Posted on March 11, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged Brexit, context, crisis, economics, economy, event, featured, finance, framing, Labour, metaphors, narrative, NEF, neoliberal, neoliberalism, NEON, ownership, PIRC, politics, report, research, War of Words.

by Justin Reynolds

Why, 10 years after a crisis of capitalism that has entrenched inequalities and insecurity, does the left still struggle to convince a sceptical public that an alternative economics is possible? That question was the focus of one of several intriguing sessions at The Norwich Radical’s recent War of Words conference. A new report by the New Economics Foundation (NEF) attempts to answer it.

Framing the Economy argues that progressives need to spend less time discussing the detail of economic policy and more on telling simple stories about how the economy works that people can understand. The project grew from a recognition that the right has long been better than the left at presenting ‘common sense’ understandings economic mechanisms.Continue Reading

BRITAIN AS A CO-OPERATIVE ECONOMY: A MISSED OPPORTUNITY?

Posted on October 5, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged co-operative, coalition, collective, conservative, consumer co-operative, consumers, cooperative, david cameron, development, economy, ethical, free market, growth, local, Madison, Mondragon, multinationals, neoliberal, shareholders, spain, sustainability, theresa may, US, Wisconsin, worker co-operative, workers.

by Oliver Steward

The UK’s free-market economy as a whole is facing one crisis after another. That is why policy makers and businesses need to consider the co-operative option which offers products and services to our economy. Our corporate and political culture’s lack of innovation and strict adherence to the neoliberal free market means this is sadly more of a dream than reality. However, other nations have successfully replicated this alternative economic model to adapt to their own individual needs.Continue Reading

HOW THE LEFT CREATED DONALD TRUMP

Posted on December 23, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged activisim, AFD, BAME, church of england, communist party, conservatives, credit crunch, daily mail, donal trump, ethnic minorities, external, far right, financial crisis, Gordon Brown, industrial communities, left, LePen, LGBT+, margaret thatcher, marginalised, metropolitan liberal elite, michael foot, michael sheen, middle class, neil kinnock, neoliberal, new democrats, new labour, Peter Mandelson, Port Talbot, postindustrial Britain, privatisation, racism, rise of fascism, SDP, sexism, social conservatism, social justice, Thatcher, tony blair, tory party, UKIP, Wales, Welsh, women, working class.

by anonymous

There’s something darkly comical about Michael Sheen’s intention to abandon acting in favour of defeating the far right. An esteemed actor, deeply immersed in the world of theatre and art, jetting off to Port Talbot to tell working class Welsh people, caught up in a wave of revolt against the ‘metropolitan liberal elite’, what to do. It couldn’t be any more counter-productive if the embodiment of this elitism, Tony Blair himself, had made the journey — although I suppose someone who has played him is good enough.Continue Reading

WHY WE NEED A DEMOCRATICALLY ACCOUNTABLE AND ETHICAL BUS COMPANY

Posted on December 5, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Community and tagged bus, bus company, bus service, clause 21, commuters, eoin clarke, external, first bus, IPPR, liberalisation, nationalise, neoliberal, norfolk, norwich, Norwich Labour Party, privitisation, profit, public ownership, rail, renationalise, shareholders, transport act, we own it.

by Oliver Steward

It’s the 30th anniversary year of buses being deregulated and privatised by the then Thatcher government under the legislation of the Transport Act 1985. Privatisation was supposed to bring greater efficiency to the bus network, give commuters choice, and aid in cutting fares. It has however failed as a policy. It is time that local councils take back control of the bus network, and renationalise to make it publicly owned, and publicly accountable to those who use it.

Éoin Clarke posed a fundamental policy question concerning transport: why we should reconsider the merits of privatisation of our bus and rail network? In this article I’m going to focus on buses.Continue Reading

REVIEW: BURNT ROTIS, WITH LOVE, BY PRERNA BAKSHI

Posted on October 31, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged #readwomen, artivism, body, burnt rotis with love, cancer, death, dream, empowerment, expectations, feminism, Foxconn, gender roles, gender violence, girlhood, grief, Hindu, India, intersectionality, language, neoliberal, poem, poet, poetry, politics, Prerna Bakshi, review, rhyme, rhythm, Sheryl Sandberg, slurs, South Asia, Urdu, white feminism, womanhood, women, women writers, writing, Xu Lizhi.

by Carmina Masoliver

Prerna Bakshi’s debut collection Burnt rotis, with love was published in 2016 by Le Zaporogue via Lulu.com. Poems featured in the collection have appeared in many literary journals, magazines and anthologies across the world. Hailing from India, Bakshi offers a refreshing perspective on feminism and the wider would, enlightening readers with its undeniable South Asian roots.Continue Reading

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WHY IS THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY NOT PUSHING TO ENTER THE US UNDER THE RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT?

WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT THE RIOTING AND THE LOOTING

THE EU WASN’T ALL THAT GOOD (BUT WE SHOULD HAVE STAYED ANYWAY) – PART II

BUS W@NKERS

HELPING PEOPLE SEE THE ECONOMY ANEW

BRITAIN AS A CO-OPERATIVE ECONOMY: A MISSED OPPORTUNITY?

WHY WE NEED A DEMOCRATICALLY ACCOUNTABLE AND ETHICAL BUS COMPANY

REVIEW: BURNT ROTIS, WITH LOVE, BY PRERNA BAKSHI

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