Q&A with the Guardian
Yesterday I joined Ken Loach and Sharon McCourt in a live Q&A with readers on the Guardian website. To paraphrase Lil Chris, check it out.
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Appearance on RT News: Left Unity founding conference
RT News came along to cover Left Unity’s founding conference on November 30 and ran an excellent report featuring interviews with Ken Loach and myself.
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Ken Loach discusses his hopes for Left Unity
Salman Shaheen speaks to Ken Loach about the director’s hopes for founding a new party to the left of Labour, and what it can learn from new media and the social movements that have built up around it. Ken Loach has just returned from Ireland where he has been shooting Jimmy’s Hall, a film following
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Why Left Unity could become Labour’s UKIP
“There is a spectre haunting Britain,” Ken Loach warned a packed conference hall at the first national meeting of a political movement in its genesis. “It’s called Nigel Farage.” There will be few more haunted by the spectre of Farage’s UKIP than David Cameron as he heads into conference season. With the European Parliament elections
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Letter in the Guardian: Left Unity ready to offer an alternative
Managed to get this letter into the Guardian today, signed by director Ken Loach, Only Fools and Horses actor Roger Lloyd Pack, former Children’s laureate Michael Rosen and a number of other famous writers, academics, activists and musicians supporting Left Unity. This summer will be remembered for Labour‘s final betrayal of the working-class people it
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Owen Jones calls on the left to unite against austerity
Chavs author, Independent writer and Labour activist Owen Jones talked to Salman Shaheen about the People’s Assembly and the prospects for resistance to austerity If the People’s Assembly could be summarised in a word, it would be optimism. From the opening speeches it crackled, infusing enthused activists with the idea that austerity – a failure
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