Eoin Kam
@gaoblai
PhD researcher in revolutionary education. Edinburgh/Myanmar/Thailand
If you're a media studies teacher, screenshot this tweet and ask your students to identify the biased language
Welfare v warfare? For decades governments have run defence spending down, pouring money into public services. Now Europe has to re-arm and we have to pay for it. And that’s shaping up into one of Starmer’s biggest challenges since he became PM x.com/SkyNews/status…
Basically we shouldn't be getting frustrated with *who* joins a party but working on structures to ensure that no one person can wreck it.
The questions for a new left party are about democratic structures, political red lines and a general style or orientation far more than about personalities.
And how about a Your Party bar or cafe in the highstreet?
Hi friends, new article on the often turgid experience of meetings in the UK left and how we could make them better. Please share and critique. 🌱Roots Not Branches making Meetings work for a new left party.🌱 gaoblai.medium.com/roots-not-bran…
The first Momentum meeting I went to in 2015 was packed, with many first-timers to radical politics. None of them were given a chance to speak, and they sat in silence while long-time activists enjoyed making speeches to a packed room for once. The next meeting was much smaller.
Hi friends, new article on the often turgid experience of meetings in the UK left and how we could make them better. Please share and critique. 🌱Roots Not Branches making Meetings work for a new left party.🌱 gaoblai.medium.com/roots-not-bran…
Hi friends, new article on the often turgid experience of meetings in the UK left and how we could make them better. Please share and critique. 🌱Roots Not Branches making Meetings work for a new left party.🌱 gaoblai.medium.com/roots-not-bran…
Some good ideas here. I would love to see any attempt to reduce the barriers to regular and energetic contribution from people with non 9-5 shift patterns, young children, lack of political/social capital or money (i.e. a majority of the class we seek to empower)
Hi friends, new article on the often turgid experience of meetings in the UK left and how we could make them better. Please share and critique. 🌱Roots Not Branches making Meetings work for a new left party.🌱 gaoblai.medium.com/roots-not-bran…
Said before but an opportunity to say again, seeing a new bloom of ideas around organising, structures and popular empowerment in decision making has been great to see. Without it, even if we're successful with votes etc. we won't get change, just a few careers.
Hi friends, new article on the often turgid experience of meetings in the UK left and how we could make them better. Please share and critique. 🌱Roots Not Branches making Meetings work for a new left party.🌱 gaoblai.medium.com/roots-not-bran…
Worth your attention!
Hi friends, new article on the often turgid experience of meetings in the UK left and how we could make them better. Please share and critique. 🌱Roots Not Branches making Meetings work for a new left party.🌱 gaoblai.medium.com/roots-not-bran…
If you live in Britain and have never met a struggling senior citizen you are fundamentally in a bubble. Yes plenty of boomers are comfy, yes there are boomers dying prematurely because they can't get proper care Sick of this ageist shit pretending to be socialist.
> "New" British party forms > It's actually just another pensioners-first, everyone else last party
At midnight tonight one of the most totalitarian laws in the history of the UK becomes active. Ostensibly about safety the effect is that hundreds of community websites will shutter and Brits will be banned from many others, effectively becoming a mini North Korea in isolation.
"there's plenty of money...just not for us" That's the line. Spot on messaging.
⏳ Final week to sign up to the Green Party. 🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.
'the Middle of Autumn' is a banger of a new party name. Definitely attract the old emo kid demographic.
The date of the new party’s founding conference isn’t agreed yet but Corbyn says “the middle of autumn”. It was recently announced that The World Transformed festival, which ran alongside Labour conference under Corbyn’s leadership, will return in October…