THIS ELECTION IS THE FIGHT OF OUR LIVES – HERE’S HOW WE CAN WIN IT

Posted on November 15, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged art, Brexit, campaigning, doorknocking, environment, family, fascism, featured, general election, general election 2019, green new deal, higher education, inequality, jeremy corbyn, Labour, marketisation, memes, momentum, music, NUS, political art, politics, public services, register to vote, social media, student debt, students, unions, universities, vote, young people.

By Bradley Allsop

The world is on the brink. A shattered environment, gargantuan inequality, a burgeoning mental health crisis, fascism openly spreading across Europe, public services at breaking point… but also the possibility of more radical and progressive change than we’ve seen in decades. Higher education specifically also faces two radically different paths ahead of it: continued marketisation, eroding academic integrity, burdening a generation with enormous debt, crushing academics under enormous workloads, increasingly insecure employment and workplace stress – or publicly funded higher education that opens up space to imagine and create a different sort of campus.

WE ARE EUROPE AND REMAIN SO

Posted on April 3, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged agriculture, Article 50, Brexit, Britain, british empire, citizens, class, education, EHIC, EU membership, Europe, european, european life, fair play, featured, mobile phones, mobile roaming, monarchy, NHS, opinion, personal, public services, travel, uk.

by Kelvin Smith

On the eve of the EU Referendum I published a piece, A European Life, that concluded: “My whole life has been lived in the context of this complex and sometimes conflicted continent and whatever the result of the referendum tomorrow, I am just one of very many British people who are not about to leave Europe. We are Europe.” Now, one year into the Article 50 period, one year from the deadline date of 29th March 2019, has anything changed?Continue Reading

IF NOT NOW, THEN WHEN? – STUDENTS AND THE ELECTION #6

Posted on June 6, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged #GE2017, armed forces, Article 50, austerity, buses, clive lewis, commentary, cuts, education, end poverty, EU, EU citizens, EU referendum, exit poll, Free Education, general election, Green Party, higher education, jeremy corbyn, journalism, Labour, left wing, Liberal Democrats, living wage, london, manifesto, MPs, Northampton, norwich south, NUS, Parliament, politics, polls, prime minister, privatisation, public services, rent, rights, shadow cabinet, snap election, student politics, student vote, students, Students and the Election, Sure Start, tactical voting, tax, theresa may, Tim Farron, Tories, UEA, UEA Labour Students, universities, voters, voting, wages, Wales, work.

from a member of UEA Labour Students

In the midst of multiple crises faced by students, universities and schools, the outcome of the snap general election will be a major indicator of the future of the UK education sector. Each week until the vote we are featuring perspectives from our regular contributors and guests on what the election could mean for students.

Having resolved to sit down today and write this article, I’m struck by the appropriateness of my day. I caught the bus to UEA from outside one of the few remaining Sure Start centres, a public service provided by the last Labour government which has been decimated by the Conservatives (and Liberal Democrats) since 2010. My bus was 40 minutes late, the consequence of a privatised, under-funded service – and even the previously UEA-hosted launderette I went to had been privatised since I last used it. It served as a strong reminder of the power of Labour government to change lives for the better, which contrasts with the crumbling services and privatisation festival that has characterised the last 7 years of Conservative and ConDem government.

WE STAND ON A PRECIPICE – THE SNAP GENERAL ELECTION

Posted on April 18, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged austerity, benefits, Bernie Sanders, Brexit, british politics, caroline lucas, civil liberties, climate change, comprehensive schools, conservative party, conservatives, corbyn, cuts, education, election, elections, emmanuel macron, GE17, general election, grammar schools, Green, Green Party, green surge, greens, incarceration, international development, islamophobia, jean-luc melenchon, jeremy corbyn, Jonathan Bartley, Labour, labour party, leanne wood, Liberal Democrats, macron, market, melenchon, migration, military intervention, NHS, nick clegg, nicola sturgeon, Northern Ireland, owen smith, paul nuttall, politics, privatisation, progressive alliance, public sector, public services, sanders, schools, Scotland, scottish national party, SDLP, Sinn Féin, snp, social democratic and labour party, theresa may, Tim Farron, Tories, Tory, tory party, uk politics, Wales, war, welfare, xenophobia.

by Chris Jarvis

With Theresa May having all but called an early General Election, on June 8^th, the UK will go to the polls for yet another vote that will have long-reaching consequences for the future of the nation, the third in as many years. For the people of Scotland and Wales it will be the fourth – and those living in Northern Ireland will face their fifth. Right now, our political leaders can’t seem to get enough of sending people trudging out to schools, churches and community centres to scribble little pencil crosses in printed boxes.Continue Reading

BLAIR AND BROWN HAVE NOTHING TO SAY ON CREDIBILITY

Posted on August 30, 2015 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged anti austerity, economic growth, EU, Gordon Brown, immigration, Iraq War, jeremy corbyn, labour leadership, labour party, new britain, new labour, politics, public services, tax, tax payer, Thatcher, tony blair, UKIP, working class.

by anonymous

For a political analyst who swears by the idea that only parties on the centre-ground can win elections, Labour may just be about, to coin a phrase, to write the most-signed suicide note in history. Jeremy Corbyn, an opponent of the Blair-Brown ‘modernisation’ project and staunch advocate of socialism, is the front runner to become the party’s new leader, with odds that started as 100/1 becoming so short that Paddy Power has already paid out bets made in his favour over three weeks from the announcement of the result.

A #Labourpurge and a legal challenge notwithstanding, the Labour that emerges from this election will be a very different beast. Top-down party management will be eschewed for the empowerment of the, now, huge number of members of the party, foreign policy will drastically change and, perhaps most importantly, Corbyn’s Labour will break the austerity consensus that has set over Europe.

public services

WE ARE EUROPE AND REMAIN SO

IF NOT NOW, THEN WHEN? – STUDENTS AND THE ELECTION #6

BLAIR AND BROWN HAVE NOTHING TO SAY ON CREDIBILITY

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