Local activists laid down a powerful marker towards creating a Citizens’ Assembly in South Tyneside at an initial event held at the South Shields Museum and Art Gallery on June 29. They included environmental campaigners, trade unionists, local councillors as well as members of political parties. A planning group was established and will meet later […]
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The case for a democratic revolution
1 The present political and economic system prioritises and serves powerful corporate and financial interests and not those of the majority. 2 Therefore the system cannot be regarded as democratic in a meaningful way, as is claimed by the ruling elites and others who endorse or support the status quo. 3 The capitalist type of […]
Real Democracy as an ideal whose time ha...
A critique of the system of representative democracy that has dominated the major capitalist economies and states over the last 150 years is not difficult to assemble. Much more of a challenge is coming forward with some outline proposals about where we go from here. That’s what confronted a group of activists when we set […]
Another Brexit is possible
We should use the Brexit process to talk about what matters to us rather than what’s good for British business in terms of trade, access to markets and regulations. That’s the corporate agenda, which is the priority for all the major political parties. Why not set our own agenda? Why be dictated to as to […]