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…the Left narrative, no matter how accurate and intellectually powerful it may be, cannot expect to catch the imagination of the citizenry without including a vision for a real alternative future. Moreover, working-class institutions need to be reinstituted for the enhancement of class consciousness and authentic socialist parties need to be rediscovered for the Left
The hero of a Stephen Sewell play, and clearly his creator’s alter ego, says: “People change.
It’s now over one hundred days since 7 Oct, when 3 000 Hamas fighters raided the border villages (kibbutzim) of the Gaza Strip to rape, burn and murder Israeli citizens: young and old, male and female – some celebrating a Jewish holiday of rejoicing. But this was also a moment for rejoicing for the raiders as captured in the ecstatic telephone conversation of a young terrorist:
While yesteryear’s anti-Semitism was based in large measure in demented paranoia, today’s left-wing anti-Zionism and hostility to Israel are founded in an even larger measure of double standards and hypocrisy. Leftists hostile to Israel wholly ignore the undemocratic nature of most of the Arab countries and other Third World states, bizarrely attacking the Middle East’s only democracy
Veteran leftist Robert Reid says New Zealand’s at war with Yemen. Chris Trotter begs to differ