The anti-genocide party won their first parliamentary by-election, beating Labour and Reform, because organized and passionate people know that change is now possible.
This is fabulous news. Wonderful! I was born and raised in Britain, lived most of my life in New York City. As an oldish person of 87 I look back on the huge influence of growing up in a society where "of course" the government worked for the people, not vice versa. Universal health care, widows' pensions (women were in dire straits at the end of WWI), unemployment insurance, and build, build, build new housing. Of course Thatcher despoiled that by selling off council housing. But the original is an essential for a decent society. Zohran Mamdani, mayor of New York City is setting out to build 12,000 new houses and if the federal government comes through it may well happen. Labour has been horrible. I always voted Labour when I lived in the UK, but was grateful I can't vote there when I saw Starmer on the rise. May there be more Green party victories--they speak to actual human beings, not TV images.
I agree JP. I lived in England until I was 17 then moved as a married woman to Canada and returned when I retired at 60. I'm now 77 and though I voted Labour since I returned I knew something was off about Starmer and voted for the Lib Dems. I wasn't comfortable with that but decided there was no way I was going to sit it out. Since the Green Party led by Polanski came into being I've been determined to support them. I hope America makes the bold choice too or nothing will ever change. Mamdani can do it then so can others. Hellfire Polanski is a Jew and gay, yet still his party got elected! I couldn't be more proud of him if I was his mother!
Great article Grace. It reminds me of Mamdani's win in New York for the mayoral race. People will vote if their issues are listened to! If they know their opinion matters. I predict that Starmer will call a General Election because he knows he doesn't have the votes now and will have even less in 3 + years. I've put up my name to volunteer for the Greens and I'm 77 next month! So all you oldies like me that have seen politicians come and go whilst never representing THE PEOPLE then we have to step up and let the Labour and Reform parties know we don't want what they've been selling us for all our lives. We love our neighbours no matter where they come from and we want a better world for the grandchildren. No more division, no more trump style politics that just make the rich richer because they won't share the wealth when it's our sweat that makes them wealthy! The Greens have proved it can be done!
I was just thinking the same thing about how mamdani's win is the same. People are tired of the polished sounding politicians who do not really understand the people they represent or renege on promises. Here in the US we really need a new generation of politicians overall.
I agree. Also The Green Party has been around for awhile but it's when Polanski took over as the leader and expressed with authenticity what they stood for that people started to take them seriously. I always liked them and their values but didn't think they could make it in this dog eat dog world until I listened to Zack say that they aren't just "tree-huggers" that they want the real world we all live in as well as the natural world to have a chance to thrive. America needs to find a Zohran Mamdani on the federal level. Once he or she can explain that they are on the side of the 99% people will back them to the hilt because all over the world the people are getting screwed by the same old politics are parents believed in and it just doesn't fit todays world. I hope America can wake up to that fact and pay attention to what the reality of their life can be with the right leader. xox
Totally agree with that comment I was trying to make a comment similar to ... but unnecessary since you've got such a perfect comment thank you I also was born in the UK came over when I was eight years old... and love the policies and the administration of mayor Mamdani! I hoped and continue to hope his type of politics will be a growing agenda all around the US and other countries!
Exposing Why The Wealth Gap Exists And The Solution
Jon Stewart interview https://bit.ly/4cetaar with A Mechele Dickerson https://bit.ly/3OMGGIB Middle Class New Deal: Restoring Upward Mobility and the American Dream in her book exposes that the middle class after WWII the government created a middle class based primarily in the housing market especially since the 1980’s
The local state and federal politicians have the ability to change course and deconstruct the middle class by simply changing the laws that have so firmly entrenched a middle class that has no upward mobility The current situation is that the middle class has a horizontal view of where they stand but are unable to move upward due to the tribal constraints that are imposed ie blame the tribes ie immigrants for their plight of inability to buy a home(currently new home buyers average age is 40) The upper and lower class economically have been taught to not look upward but horizontally to who is to blame, that a whole lot of wealth is moving upwards
Rules and laws need to be changed in order to begin to attack this extreme wealth gap but also the middle and lower class needs to stop buying the Nazi Republican koolaid and realizing that if they unite horizontally they themselves can effect societal change French Revolution 2.0
"As poll after poll has shown, trust in political elites is at an all-time low...." However Grace that is partly a success by the propaganda teams that you suggest 'grass roots' door to door activism can out punch: that is contrived messaging, gullible journalists keen to get 'hot' topics and so on and indeed is where the Overton window in MSM in the UK is. Pumping out that very message with repetition until it becomes true or rather creates a space for reactionary politicians who pretend they are something else. Tricky waters.
Let's see if, for once, the British Left can avoid destroying the gains via internecine strife. I was a Labour Party member when Clause Four was dropped. What Grace says about the right and corporate 'triangulation' sector and what harm it did, leading to corporate 'safe hands' like Starmer is true: however much of that was aided by the Left itself and its constant wars about marginalia and ideological purity and, I will add, a certain amount of 'cancel culture'. I don't want to suggest that is the single or even a major reason for the decline in Labour.
An intersting participant, Tariq Ali, often talks and writes about it. It is as if a hard and clear lesson, from the Pre WWII Popular Front Era, is never ever learnt. It is also true that a section of the British Population, is irredeemably racist and stuck in the glory days when the sun never set on the British Empire, as I was taught in school. As if it was a 'good' thing. 😁
Hope this goes to proof that no decent human being is willing to bypass their moral clarity over a government of psychopaths who have been at the center one atrocity after another atrocity against civilians. Even with a “Ceasefire Deal,” the Israeli government continues to kill Palestinians and blockade humanitarian relief efforts to enter Gaza and for injured and sick Palestinians to be able to leave the strip because they are so vile that humanity is not a viable option for the Israelis!
This is fabulous news. Wonderful! I was born and raised in Britain, lived most of my life in New York City. As an oldish person of 87 I look back on the huge influence of growing up in a society where "of course" the government worked for the people, not vice versa. Universal health care, widows' pensions (women were in dire straits at the end of WWI), unemployment insurance, and build, build, build new housing. Of course Thatcher despoiled that by selling off council housing. But the original is an essential for a decent society. Zohran Mamdani, mayor of New York City is setting out to build 12,000 new houses and if the federal government comes through it may well happen. Labour has been horrible. I always voted Labour when I lived in the UK, but was grateful I can't vote there when I saw Starmer on the rise. May there be more Green party victories--they speak to actual human beings, not TV images.
I agree JP. I lived in England until I was 17 then moved as a married woman to Canada and returned when I retired at 60. I'm now 77 and though I voted Labour since I returned I knew something was off about Starmer and voted for the Lib Dems. I wasn't comfortable with that but decided there was no way I was going to sit it out. Since the Green Party led by Polanski came into being I've been determined to support them. I hope America makes the bold choice too or nothing will ever change. Mamdani can do it then so can others. Hellfire Polanski is a Jew and gay, yet still his party got elected! I couldn't be more proud of him if I was his mother!
Brilliant! What a start to the day! Hope to hear more from Grace here!
Great article Grace. It reminds me of Mamdani's win in New York for the mayoral race. People will vote if their issues are listened to! If they know their opinion matters. I predict that Starmer will call a General Election because he knows he doesn't have the votes now and will have even less in 3 + years. I've put up my name to volunteer for the Greens and I'm 77 next month! So all you oldies like me that have seen politicians come and go whilst never representing THE PEOPLE then we have to step up and let the Labour and Reform parties know we don't want what they've been selling us for all our lives. We love our neighbours no matter where they come from and we want a better world for the grandchildren. No more division, no more trump style politics that just make the rich richer because they won't share the wealth when it's our sweat that makes them wealthy! The Greens have proved it can be done!
I was just thinking the same thing about how mamdani's win is the same. People are tired of the polished sounding politicians who do not really understand the people they represent or renege on promises. Here in the US we really need a new generation of politicians overall.
I agree. Also The Green Party has been around for awhile but it's when Polanski took over as the leader and expressed with authenticity what they stood for that people started to take them seriously. I always liked them and their values but didn't think they could make it in this dog eat dog world until I listened to Zack say that they aren't just "tree-huggers" that they want the real world we all live in as well as the natural world to have a chance to thrive. America needs to find a Zohran Mamdani on the federal level. Once he or she can explain that they are on the side of the 99% people will back them to the hilt because all over the world the people are getting screwed by the same old politics are parents believed in and it just doesn't fit todays world. I hope America can wake up to that fact and pay attention to what the reality of their life can be with the right leader. xox
Agreed in spades about Mayor Zohran Mamdani! I hope the US can wake up to that fact as well!
Totally agree with that comment I was trying to make a comment similar to ... but unnecessary since you've got such a perfect comment thank you I also was born in the UK came over when I was eight years old... and love the policies and the administration of mayor Mamdani! I hoped and continue to hope his type of politics will be a growing agenda all around the US and other countries!
She is a total inspiration
Let's drive the pro-genociders backed by the Zionist Jews and Israel into the gates of hell, forever.
Exposing Why The Wealth Gap Exists And The Solution
Jon Stewart interview https://bit.ly/4cetaar with A Mechele Dickerson https://bit.ly/3OMGGIB Middle Class New Deal: Restoring Upward Mobility and the American Dream in her book exposes that the middle class after WWII the government created a middle class based primarily in the housing market especially since the 1980’s
The local state and federal politicians have the ability to change course and deconstruct the middle class by simply changing the laws that have so firmly entrenched a middle class that has no upward mobility The current situation is that the middle class has a horizontal view of where they stand but are unable to move upward due to the tribal constraints that are imposed ie blame the tribes ie immigrants for their plight of inability to buy a home(currently new home buyers average age is 40) The upper and lower class economically have been taught to not look upward but horizontally to who is to blame, that a whole lot of wealth is moving upwards
Rules and laws need to be changed in order to begin to attack this extreme wealth gap but also the middle and lower class needs to stop buying the Nazi Republican koolaid and realizing that if they unite horizontally they themselves can effect societal change French Revolution 2.0
If only the shit show that is the US had a true representative democracy like GB.
"As poll after poll has shown, trust in political elites is at an all-time low...." However Grace that is partly a success by the propaganda teams that you suggest 'grass roots' door to door activism can out punch: that is contrived messaging, gullible journalists keen to get 'hot' topics and so on and indeed is where the Overton window in MSM in the UK is. Pumping out that very message with repetition until it becomes true or rather creates a space for reactionary politicians who pretend they are something else. Tricky waters.
Let's see if, for once, the British Left can avoid destroying the gains via internecine strife. I was a Labour Party member when Clause Four was dropped. What Grace says about the right and corporate 'triangulation' sector and what harm it did, leading to corporate 'safe hands' like Starmer is true: however much of that was aided by the Left itself and its constant wars about marginalia and ideological purity and, I will add, a certain amount of 'cancel culture'. I don't want to suggest that is the single or even a major reason for the decline in Labour.
An intersting participant, Tariq Ali, often talks and writes about it. It is as if a hard and clear lesson, from the Pre WWII Popular Front Era, is never ever learnt. It is also true that a section of the British Population, is irredeemably racist and stuck in the glory days when the sun never set on the British Empire, as I was taught in school. As if it was a 'good' thing. 😁
"Ragged Trousered Philanthropists" hardly captures them.
Hope this goes to proof that no decent human being is willing to bypass their moral clarity over a government of psychopaths who have been at the center one atrocity after another atrocity against civilians. Even with a “Ceasefire Deal,” the Israeli government continues to kill Palestinians and blockade humanitarian relief efforts to enter Gaza and for injured and sick Palestinians to be able to leave the strip because they are so vile that humanity is not a viable option for the Israelis!