Around the red web
So here is my latest pick of news, views and analysis from around the red web web.
Over at socialist unity there is a very extensive debate about the whether counter-demonstrations are a useful tactic for opposing the EDL. The article and comments are well worth a read.
First of all, not all leadership contests have to be boring. Derek Wall, keeper of the Another Green world blog is running for the leadership of the Green Party. See his campaign site here. I am not a member of the Greens, but I wish him the best of luck.
The ever engaging Madam Miaow has a rather extraordinary piece about the emergence of mongolian Neo-Nazis. “That’s all we need in east Asia” she says, “non-Aryans dong that turkey-voting-for-Christmas thang and celebrating a ideology that would send us all to a most unpleasant end.”
If you’re as geeky as me you will be interested in the party accounts – compiled by the electoral commission and posted by A Very Public Sociologist. The fact that the Tories were able to spend over 50% more than Labour, over the course of 2009, should be of concern to democrats.
Sunny Hundal takes on the attacks agian Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and rips them to shreds here and here.
Robert Sharp notes that PC gone mad type myths – of the lambeth bans black rubbish bags variety – are now being spouted as truth by coalition government ministers. Baroness Warsi has told us that is “wrong” for the state to insist on replacing Christmas with winterval, because obviously thats what multiculturalism looked like under labour. Still anything that reminds me of that awesome South Park episode, involving hanky the Christmas Shit and Philip Glass singing a non-demoninational Christmas song, must have some value to it.
Lenin’s Tomb offers some short but certainly sharp analysis of the Lib Dem’s dire poll ratings – with the party now down at 12 per cent. Gaming anylists reckon that Nick Clegg’s party urgently need to locate some medipacks after a rather epic loss of hit points.
And finally on the not so red web, I wrote yesterday about Christina Patterson and today she has responded to the criticism her article provoked. In case you can’t be bothered to read it I have russled up a shortened version:
People on the internet are barbarians. That’s why everybody being horrible to me.
Decent British liberals are really so decent but, they are driven to distraction and “anguish” by all the craziness around them that they have to put up with.
I am really, really brave. As the blossoming careers of Rod Liddle demonstrates, being critical of minority groups is in fact a choice to martyr oneself.
I am David standing up against the Goliath of cultural relativism. (Ignoring the fact nobody in mainstream politics or media actually defends forced marriages or female genital mutilation) I am sticking my head above the parapet by saying that certain beliefs and ways of doing things should be subjected to moral judgement.
