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• Senate Passes Health Care Reform

  
  J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles — Authority: 699
  Ezra Klein: Health Care Refom : Passing legislation, it turns out, is a long and ugly process. God, is it ugly. The compromises, both with powerful special interests and decisive senators. The trimming of ambitions and the budget gimmicks and the worship of Congressional Budget Office scores. By the end, youre ...
  18 hours ago

• After Copenhagen II: Whither progressive politics?

  
  Larvatus Prodeo — Authority: 570
  A predictable response to the Copenhagen fail has been calls from Australian business for *even more* ‘compensation’ as a condition for continued support of the Rudd government’s ETS. I’ll save the domestic politics of the Copenhagen washup for a later post, but I think it’s also worth reflecting on what ...
  3 days ago

• Gawker FTW!!!!

  
  J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles — Authority: 699
  News of First Major Progressive Legislation in 30 Years Enrages Liberals
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• Identity politics vs class politics - 5: What is identity politics?

  
  liberation — Authority: 414
  Increasingly the debates around New Zealand politics – especially relating to the left – feature concepts such as ‘identity politics’ and ‘social liberalism’. These terms are especially useful for understanding the history of Labour Party over the last thirty years, as well as for understanding the ...
  3 days ago

• How the Republicans Turned Evan Bayh into a Raging Partisan Democrat

  
  J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles — Authority: 699
  Perhaps the best thing the very sharp Jon Chait has written this year: The Republican Health Care Blunder : The United States is on the doorstep of comprehensive health care reform. Its a staggering achievement, about which Ill have more to say later. but the under-appreciated thing that strikes me at the moment ...
  4 days ago

• Support Health Care Reform!

  
  J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles — Authority: 699
  Kevin Drum on how, living as we do not in Platonis politeia but instead in Romuli faece, it is time to close ranks and support health care reform: Sleazy Sewers and Healthcare Reform | Mother Jones : Glenn Greenwald has this to say about the Senate healthcare bill now that the public option and the Medicare ...
  5 days ago

• capitalism, labourism and the ‘trade union party’

  
  the commune — Authority: 129
  Chris Ford introduces a 1974 piece by Tony Lane The question of the trade unions and their relationship to working class political organisation has been an ongoing debate in the labour movement for many many years; it has become especially prominent in the last decade.  In 1974 Tony Lane wrote the thought provoking ...
  1 week ago

• Support Health Care Reform!

  
  J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles — Authority: 699
  Paul Starr lays down the party line: Deal or Die on Health Caret : [T]he central provisions of the legislation... would extend health coverage to an estimated 33 million of the uninsured, raise standards of protection for millions... eliminate some of the most hated abuses of the insurance industry... create a ...
  1 week ago

• Social democratic futures

  
  Next Left — Authority: 575
  The journal Social Europe are running a series of contributions from around Europe on the future of social democracy, responding to the Jon Cruddas and Andrea Nahles paper on The Good Society. ( PDF file ). My piece can be read here . Social democrats are clear that this ought to be a social-democratic moment. ...
  1 week ago

• Traversing Cope’s ideological wilderness

  
  Thought Leader — Authority: 565
  Approximately a year ago the Congress of the People (Cope) burst onto the South African political scene with much fanfare promising a “New Agenda for Hope and Change for All!“. This agenda was to be informed by a commitment to being a modern political party underpinned by an ideology of “progressivism”.An ...
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• Identity politics vs class politics - 1: Introduction

  
  liberation — Authority: 414
  Phil Goff has recently challenged issues that are at the core of socially liberal politics in New Zealand. The Labour Party leader has recently asserted a more class-oriented and leftwing version of politics, effectively seeking to shift Labour away from a core part of its project of the last three decade: liberal ...
  1 week ago

• Molly’sBlog 2009-12-13 22:30:00

  
  Anarchoblogs — Authority: 159
  INTERNATIONAL POLITICS-GREECE: GREECE-FROM CRISIS IN THE STREETS TO CRISIS IN THE BANKS: Little has been heard about street protests in Greece the past few days. Thats because there actually has been little happening. The Greek rebellion, like last year, is quick to rise and just as quick to subside. At ...
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• Rethinking The World

  
  BrianKaneOnline — Authority: 421
  Three seemingly unrelated articles for anyone interested in seeing the world from a perspective a little bit broader than the pushme-pullyou game of American politics: British historian and NYU professor Tony Judt recently gave a lecture in his role as director of the Eric Maria Remarque Institute looking at the ...
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• The Murder Of Democracy By Capitalism

  
  Prose Before Hos — Authority: 469
  The Article: What Is Living and What Is Dead in Social Democracy? by Tony Judt in the New York Review of Books. The Text: Americans would like things to be better. According to public opinion surveys in recent years, everyone would like their child to have improved life chances at birth. They would prefer it ...
  2 weeks ago

• the underlying character and future of labourism

  
  the commune — Authority: 129
  by David Bailey, University of Birmingham As we enter the beginning of what looks like it will be a long general election campaign the various elements of Britain’s political elite are lining up to convince the various sections of the electorate that it wishes to speak to, that they, really, are the best ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Left Against Progress?

  
  The Activist — Authority: 117
  CHRIS MAISANOBecause it traces its origins to the Enlightenment tradition, the left has tended to conceive of itself as a “progressive” force, steering the course of History toward a more or less inevitable higher stage of development as the right tries to conserve traditional society from the onslaught of ...
  2 weeks ago

• theses on the 2010 general election and its aftermath – for discussion

  
  the commune — Authority: 129
  Dave Spencer sets out some points for discussion at our December 12th aggregate meeting.  In the spirit of openness we want to publish as much material from our internal debates as possible. 1. No matter who wins the 2010 General  Election, the working class will be under attack to pay for the ...
  3 weeks ago

• America Is Now a Socialist Nation.

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 462
  America Is Now a Socialist Nation. A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet ******************************* “Democratic Socialists believe that both the economy and society should be run democratically—to meet public needs, not to make profits for a few. To achieve a more just society, many structures of our ...
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• the future of the labour party and workers’ representation

  
  the commune — Authority: 129
  Andrew Fisher from the Labour Representation Committee spoke at our 23rd November forum on ‘Where is the Labour Party going?’ Labour Governments do not have a good record at dealing with economic crises: in 1931, 1979 and now they have decided that it is the working class that should pay for the crisis. The ...
  3 weeks ago

• videos of the commune’s forum ‘where is the labour party going?’

  
  the commune — Authority: 129
  On 23rd November The Commune staged a public meeting in London on the social role, degeneration and future of the Labour Party. The discussion ranged from the nature of parties managing the capitalist state to the limitations of the ‘new trade union party’ objective of many left groups. David Bailey from ...
  3 weeks ago

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