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| Your opinions: Corbyn and the new politics of Britain, and fracking risks | Your opinions: Corbyn and the new politics of Britain, and fracking risks |
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| Welcome to our space – open every Wednesday from 10am-2pm – for discussing the day’s top Opinion articles. We’d like to kick off today with two articles. | |
| First off, Hilary Wainwright, co-editor of Red Pepper, has written about how community-led initiatives supported by groups such as Momentum challenge rule from above, and help to pave the way for a Labour-led government. | First off, Hilary Wainwright, co-editor of Red Pepper, has written about how community-led initiatives supported by groups such as Momentum challenge rule from above, and help to pave the way for a Labour-led government. |
| Those who dismiss the grassroots movements that look to Jeremy Corbyn for a political voice as unable to go beyond protest seem unable to understand how much politics beyond the Westminster elite has changed – especially on the left. The thousands of Momentum supporters who are signing up to the World Transformed festival to coincide with the Labour conference in Liverpool are just the tip of the iceberg of an imaginative new politics. | Those who dismiss the grassroots movements that look to Jeremy Corbyn for a political voice as unable to go beyond protest seem unable to understand how much politics beyond the Westminster elite has changed – especially on the left. The thousands of Momentum supporters who are signing up to the World Transformed festival to coincide with the Labour conference in Liverpool are just the tip of the iceberg of an imaginative new politics. |
| The initiatives of generations of women since the early 1970s exemplify the direction of this change and what it could mean in the future. To categorise decades of feminist activities simply as “protest” is to miss out entirely on how feminism has changed the lives of millions of women in the here and now. They have protested and made demands on government, for sure ... In other words, “new politics” is about a lot more than politics in its narrow party-political, parliamentary sense. It opens up a new relationship between electoral politics and the mutuality and solidarity in everyday life, in the community and the workplace. Corbyn has come to represent this opening up of politics in Britain. It is what he has been doing all his life, and this is what young people can sense. | The initiatives of generations of women since the early 1970s exemplify the direction of this change and what it could mean in the future. To categorise decades of feminist activities simply as “protest” is to miss out entirely on how feminism has changed the lives of millions of women in the here and now. They have protested and made demands on government, for sure ... In other words, “new politics” is about a lot more than politics in its narrow party-political, parliamentary sense. It opens up a new relationship between electoral politics and the mutuality and solidarity in everyday life, in the community and the workplace. Corbyn has come to represent this opening up of politics in Britain. It is what he has been doing all his life, and this is what young people can sense. |
| So, what do you think? Should Corbyn’s movement be taken seriously as a step to power for Labour? Has Corbyn come to represent an opening up of politics in Britain? Share your views in the comments. | So, what do you think? Should Corbyn’s movement be taken seriously as a step to power for Labour? Has Corbyn come to represent an opening up of politics in Britain? Share your views in the comments. |
| Elsewhere, George Monbiot has said the only way to save life on Earth is by no fracking, drilling or digging. He argued that the Paris climate change agreement is worthless unless we stop developing all new fossil fuel reserves. | Elsewhere, George Monbiot has said the only way to save life on Earth is by no fracking, drilling or digging. He argued that the Paris climate change agreement is worthless unless we stop developing all new fossil fuel reserves. |
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| Their [governments] choices are as follows. First: a gradual, managed decline of existing production and its replacement with renewable energy and low-carbon infrastructure, which offer great potential for employment. Second: allowing fossil fuel production to continue at current rates for a while longer, followed by a sudden and severe termination of the sector, with dire consequences for both jobs and economies. Third: continuing to produce fossil fuels as we do today, followed by climate breakdown. Why is this a hard choice to make? | Their [governments] choices are as follows. First: a gradual, managed decline of existing production and its replacement with renewable energy and low-carbon infrastructure, which offer great potential for employment. Second: allowing fossil fuel production to continue at current rates for a while longer, followed by a sudden and severe termination of the sector, with dire consequences for both jobs and economies. Third: continuing to produce fossil fuels as we do today, followed by climate breakdown. Why is this a hard choice to make? |
| What are your views on fracking? Is this a disaster waiting to happen? How do we exist without fossil fuels? How can we really tackle climate change? Share your views in the comments below. | What are your views on fracking? Is this a disaster waiting to happen? How do we exist without fossil fuels? How can we really tackle climate change? Share your views in the comments below. |
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