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Penny Cole
I live in Lochwinnoch, just outside Glasgow and I am active in Real Democracy Movement, SANE (Solidarity Against Neo-Liberal Extremism) and the movement against unconventional oil and gas extraction.
Photographer of class struggle
Artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen’s current show “Resistance”, at Turner Contemporary in Margate is crucial viewing and shows how photography has shaped our understanding of… Read More »Photographer of class struggle
Grenada – revolution and invasion, 40 years on. Part II
Forty years ago, in October 1983, the small Caribbean nation of Grenada was invaded by a massive US force, bringing to a halt a revolutionary… Read More »Grenada – revolution and invasion, 40 years on. Part II
Grenada – revolution and invasion, 40 years on. Part I
“Mommy it’s my birthday, am I going to die on my birthday – they’re bombing.” That’s what Fatimah Gilliam, a Black American schoolgirl, asked her… Read More »Grenada – revolution and invasion, 40 years on. Part I
Sakamoto’s coda lives on
Coda is a sensitive, elegiac documentary about the Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto, re-released to mark his death earlier this year.
Climate crisis: Just Stop Capitalism
Nothing will make governments act on the climate emergency, because they do not exist to do that. They exist to enable global corporations to continue business as usual and they plan to go right on doing that.
A war machine cannot be our model for tackling climate change
War capitalism is no answer to the climate crisis. We must recognise that the capitalist state not only does not have the will to tackle the climate crisis.
Net zero fraud: burn now, pay later
Our task is to find ways to become ungovernable. We need to challenge, in practice, the right of governments and corporations to destroy the climate… Read More »Net zero fraud: burn now, pay later
Palestinian uprising is a turning point
By Penny Cole The widespread Palestinian revolt in response to threatened evictions in East Jerusalem, the attack on Al-Aqsa worshippers, the destruction of homes, farms… Read More »Palestinian uprising is a turning point
Unhitch the movement from the SNP bandwagon
Scottish people will vote tomorrow in elections to the Holyrood parliament, after an election campaign that has been a “performance of democracy”, bearing no relationship… Read More »Unhitch the movement from the SNP bandwagon
Covid-19: from a global boardroom to your community
“If science is a “commitment to truth” shall we cite all the historical non-truths perpetuated by scientists? Of course not. It’s not science vs. Philosophy… Read More »Covid-19: from a global boardroom to your community
Educating for real democracy
The Real Democracy Movement education working group has had three meetings so far. We have agreed that our next step should be a series of workshops that take up the key challenges for building a movement for real democracy. This is a summary of our discussions so far.
The education system does not produce citizens who know how to use democracy, or even know what it is. Civic education teaches the “authorised version” – that the system of democracy we already have is an unchangeable given and the best we can achieve.
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We have to address the fundamentals
By Penny Cole Boris Johnson’s victory is like a death rattle of the old regime, despite appearances to the contrary. The ruling class must disguise… Read More »We have to address the fundamentals
School climate strikers lead the way to a democratic revolution
Hundreds of thousands of people across the world are taking part in actions called by the School Climate Strikers ahead of the climate summit in… Read More »School climate strikers lead the way to a democratic revolution
Democracy reboot through a crowd-sourced charter
In the radical spirit of the great reform movement, the Manchester People’s Assembly for Reform has launched a digital brainstorm to crowd-source ideas that rethink… Read More »Democracy reboot through a crowd-sourced charter
The passionate logic of Evald Ilyenkov
Finding Evald Ilyenkov is a bit of a detective story, charting the rediscovery of long-buried events and writings by a remarkable Soviet-era philosopher. Much of his… Read More »The passionate logic of Evald Ilyenkov