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Chartistc 284 Mon 0800.Qxp 01H Cover 19/12/2016A 08:02 Page 1 RTIST for Democratic Socialism #284 January/February 2017 £2 ChartistC 284 Mon 0800.qxp_01H cover 19/12/2016A 08:02 Page 1 RTIST For democratic socialism #284 January/February 2017 £2 Dave Cunningham Paul Garver Dave Toke Trumpism Rebecca Long Bailey MP Westminster View Claude Moraes MEP Populism Julie Timbrell Common rights John Palmer Brexit plus film and book reviews ISSN - 0968 7866 ISSUE www.chartist.org.uk Chartist 284 Mon 0800.qxp_01 cover 19/12/2016 08:02 Page 2 CONTENTS FEATURES Contributions and letters deadline for Editorial Policy CHARTIST #285 The editorial policy of CHARTIST is to promote debate amongst people active in 7 February 2 017 TRUMPISH VICTORY radical politics about the contemporary Chartist welcomes articles of 800 or 1500 words, and Dave Cunningham challenges the relevance of democratic socialism across letters in electronic format only to: [email protected] 8 rust-belt thesis the spectrum of politics, economics, science, philosophy, art, interpersonal Receive Chartist’s online newsletter: send your email address to relations – in short, the whole realm of [email protected] DOZY DEMOCRATS social life. Paul Garver rues Clinton’s lack of Our concern is with both democracy and Chartist Advert Rates: 9 progressive credentials socialism. The history of the last century has made it abundantly clear that the Inside Full page £200; 1/2 page £125; 1/4 page £75; 1/8 page £40; 1/16 page £25; small box mass of the population of the advanced 5x2cm £15 single sheet insert £50 BREXIT - THE ARTS capitalist countries will have no interest We are also interested in advert swaps with other publications. To place an advert, please Keith Savage chronicles the threat in any form of socialism which is not email: [email protected] 11 thoroughly democratic in its principles, its practices, its morality and its ideals. Yet the consequences of this deep attach - Unlike the defeated Democratic BREXIT - LABOUR ment to democracy – one of the greatest candidate - pages 9-11 Duncan Bowie exposes policy Cover by Martin Rowson advances of our epoch – are seldom www.CHARTIST.org.uk 12 confusion on the front-bench reflected in the discussion and debates amongst active socialists. CHARTIST is not a party publication. It BREXIT - WORKERS’ RIGHTS CHARTIST brings together people who are interested in socialism, some of whom are active the Clive Lewis MP highlights FOR DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM Labour Party and the trade union move - 13 another Tory clanger Number 284 January/February 2017 ment. It is concerned to deepen and extend a dialogue with all other socialists and with activists from other movements BREXIT - POPULISM REGULARS involved in the struggle to find democrat - Claude Moraes MEP surveys the ic alternatives to the oppression, exploita - 14 threat tion and injustices of capitalism and class society BREXIT - TIME TO DERAIL OUR HISTORY - 70 4 R H Tawney on Equality (1931) Editorial Board John Palmer calls on Labour to 16 seize the opportunity LETTER CHARTIST is published six times a year 4 Keith Savage on post truth by the Chartist Collective. This issue was produced by an Editorial Board consisting LUCAS PLAN EDITORIAL of Duncan Bowie (Reviews), Peter Chalk, Nigel Doggett reports on its 40th 5 Chartist laments a Trump Mike Davis (Editor), Nigel Doggett, David 18 anniversary and Mike Davis presidency and continues to Brexit bungling coming home to roost Floyd, Don Flynn, Roger Gillham, question Labour’s Brexit for Prime Minister May - pages 11-17 reviews a reprint Tehmina Kazi, Peter Kenyon (Treasurer), policy Frank Lee, Dave Lister, Andy Morton CHARTER OF THE FOREST-1217 (Website Editor), Mary Southcott, James POINTS AND CROSSINGS Grayson, Patricia d’Ardenne, Sheila Julie Timbrell celebrates the seal 6 Paul Salveson on the Tories 20 on commoners’ rights Osmanovic, Robbie Scott and Patrick switching tracks on rail Mulcahy. Production: Peter Kenyon and Andy GREENWATCH Morton YEMEN - BRITISH HYPOCRISY 7 Dave Toke assesses Trump’s Andy Gregg calls the UK threat to the environment Signed articles do not necessarily represent the views of 21 government to account the EB FILM REVIEW 25 Patrick Mulcahy on The Student Contacts PALESTINE - RETHINK TIME? BOOK REVIEWS Salma Karmi-Ayyoub makes a 26 Harry Bentham on Corbyn, Published by Chartist Publications 22 case for a single state solution Duncan Bowie on Boko Haram, PO Box 52751 London EC2P 2XF Somalia and resisting Lenin, Paul tel: 0845 456 4977 Mackney on Greece, Dot Lewis on YEAR END REPORT South Africa, Mike Davis on Printed by People For Print Ltd, Unit 10, Riverside Park, history theft, and Patricia Sheaf Gardens, Sheffield S2 4BB – Tel 0114 272 0915. Trevor Fisher ponders the d’Ardenne on women’s lib 24 collapse of liberal democracy Email: [email protected] The price of British arms sales to WESTMINSTER VIEW Website: www.chartist.org.uk Yemen’s neighbour - page 21 32 Rebecca Long-Bailey MP on Tory Email: [email protected] meanness Twitter: @Chartist48 Newsletter online: to join, email [email protected] January/February 2017 CHARTIST 3 Chartist 284 Mon 0800.qxp_01 cover 19/12/2016 08:02 Page 4 OUR HISTORY EDITORIAL OUR HISTORY - 70 Time to turn tide against Tories t is clear the Government has no coherent worked world has been the leitmotif of the 21C R H Tawney - Equality (1931) plan on Brexit. Teresa May is looking ever there is nothing to say this phenomena can’t be more isolated in Europe and her three turned back with the narrow nationalist eco - awney was an economic historian. committee of the London County Council and of the Brexiteers seem wilfully oblivious both to nomic agenda that Brexiteers, Trump, Le Pen Influenced by the social idealism of consultative committee of the Board of Education. the consequences of leaving the Eu with no in France and the right in Italy advocate. Edward Caird and the religious liberalism he died in 1962. he is the subject of biographies by deal or explaining this to the British people. Protectionism is the herald of trade wars. Trade of Bishop Charles Gore, after Balliol Ross Terrill (1973) and Anthony Wright (1987). IBut a lack of coherence extends beyond Brexit. wars usher in military conflicts. This is not a College, oxford, he went to live at the “It is true that while inequality is easy, since it The Autumn Statement from Chancellor place we should revisit. Toynbee hall settlement in Whitechapel, where he demands no more than to float with the current, hammond revealed the Tories have no answers Dave Cunningham and Paul Garver look Tbecame involved in social work. he then became a equality is difficult, for it involves swimming on the economy. The government has failed on at the reasons for Trump’s victory identifying teacher for the Workers Education Association. against it. It involves material sacrifices by some, their own deficit reduction plan, abandoned the challenges facing the uS left, while Dave This was a lifelong interest and he served 42 and a lot less painful surrender of sentimental osborne’s targets, failed on clamping down on Toke is sanguine on prospects for a major years on the WEA’s executive council and was presi - claims by others, and on the part of all, sufficient tax evaders, failed on holding down inflation. reversal of the Paris climate change accords, dent from 1929 to 1945. Tawney’s academic base self-control and public spirit, sufficient respect for Rebecca Long-Bailey Shadow Treasury minis - despite Trumps’s scepticism. was the London School of Economics, where he was themselves and appreciation of their neighbours….” ter, itemises the sorry list of failures. hammond For Britain Brexit is the defining political first Reader and then Professor of Economic history. “The reasons for equalizing, as means and oppor- has no answers on the crisis facing the national challenge. John Palmer argues that while the his first academic work was a study of the Agrarian tunity allow, the externals of life is not that the scaf- health Service. There was no mention of social left must sharpen its assault on the govern - Problem of the Sixteenth century , published in 1912. folding is more important than the shrine, or that care in the Autumn statement. hospitals face ment’s incoherence, support parliament against he fought in the First World War, being severely economic interests, for all their clamour and insis- ever growing waiting lists and bed blocking as a the executive, with a possible Supreme Court wounded. his 1920 study, The Acquisitive Society tence, possess the unique and portentous signifi- result of patients without community support, ruling backing not only the Westminster par - was a critique of capitalism. In 1926 he published cance with which the fashionable philosophy of the A&E closures, demoralised junior doctors and a liament but elected houses in Scotland, Religion and the Rise of Capitalism . Equality fol - age is accustomed to ascribe too them. It is not, as threat to 50,000 Eu nationals working in the northern Ireland and Wales also having a vote lowed in 1931. austere critics assert, to pamper the gross bodily nhS. The nhS chief says the underfunded ser - on the Brexit plan and triggering Article 50. Tawney was a Christian Socialist moralist not a appetites of an envious multitude, but to free the vice is on the brink of collapse. The however Palmer sees the key moment to scup - Marxist. he had a profound belief in political spirit of all…. The chief enemy of the life of the spir- Sustainability and Transformation Plans, sup - per Eu withdrawal in 2018 or 2019 when the democracy and an opponent of all forms of totalitari - it, whether in art. culture or religion … is as every- posed to aid merging of health and care emptiness of the government ‘deal’ is fully anism.
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