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A children’s classic
July Challenge
A debut novel
August Challenge
A book based on real people or events
September Challenge
A banned book
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A book recommended by a friend or librarian
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A prize-winning book
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A book published this century
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I was saddened to see how working class voters in Brighton were reduced to voting for a middle class protest party. The policies of the Greens seem 100 times better than Keir Starmer's apology for a Labour leadership.
However there is now a working class alternative. Socialists have always been allies of the trade union movement. The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition is beginning the long march towards a party of the working class.
Will it be in my lifetime? Does that matter? The main thing is that TUSC are doing the right thing and however long it takes, capitalism is an immoral system and it is doomed.
I use Amazon.Mea Culpa. Mea Culpa. Mea Maxima Culpa.
I do, however, object to their continual attempts to trick me into paying a shedload of money to use Amazon Prime. And they do this to everybody.
Subsequently, I have received nuisance phone calls demanding money for Amazon Prime. Amazon is not responsible for this.
If they could stop trying to make people use bloody Prime it would be a start. Then start treating their employees with respect and stop attacking the unions. Just a few things!
Only kidding.
Starmer is saying Labour should go further right faster. He is just echoing Mandelson. Why on earth should anyone vote for Ersatz Tories when the real Tories are available?
North of the Border, Boris is in trouble. The probable majority in Holyrood will be for independence. Like a victorian Imperialist, Boris is asserting his divine right to rule Scotland whether those Scottish types want him to or not.
His arrogance will be his downfall.
One voter interviewed by the BBC voiced a common view. He voted Tory because he believed Boris Johnson's boast that the vaccine rollout was due to him (and of course to the twin gods of greed and capitalism).
The rollout of the vaccine was a victory for
the NHS. For any politician to claim credit will only increase
vaccine skepticism.
Tories voted against the founding of the NHS and trade-union-sponsored MPs voted solidly in favour.
The long march for a new workers' party continues!
Anyone who thinks voting Conservative is in their interests might ponder this little cartoon.
The BBC could not resist repeating the result of the Hartlepool election all morning. They also broadcast ad nauseum the statement of the candidate, Jill Mortimer, that this was "a vote for change."
It is a bit disingenuous to call this a vote for change. The Tories have been in Government for over a decade. It is a vote for more of the same - corruption and incompetence.
The Labour Right will use the result as a pretext to move the party closer to Tory policies.
Why should anyone vote for a Labour Party with Tory policies when they can have the resl Tories instead?
Nobody could confuse TUSC with the Tories ☺The long uphill battle for a working class party continues.
