A lot of people say they just don’t care about ‘politics’, and I’m sure that would make for an easier life. But Kamala Harris was right: we must carry on the fight, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

If we want the kind of fair, functioning state Britain saw post-1945, we need to take on the economic powers that wrecked it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

We will need years to rebuild the country, but there is a chance for a new beginning

Occasional blog about politics with stuff about elections

Cornwall Council in the period 2009-13 went for a high growth strategy. They committed the council to increasing the housebuilding rate, working closely with developers in a strategy that involved boosting in-migration. The only thing new about this was its scale, ramping up the effective de-facto policy of the past half century. Since the 1960s this process has resulted in the Cornish environment, its communities and Cornishness itself paying a heavy price. And all to benefit a handful of wealthy landlords and a pack of ‘developers’ and large construction companies usually based well beyond Cornwall.

Dans l’imaginaire occidental, le yoga a été importé d’Inde par des hippies qui refusaient le moule petit-bourgeois : métro, boulot, dodo....

The housing and homelessness charity Shelter is 50 this year. Shortly after its birth, photographer Nick Hedges was dispatched to cities in England and Scotland to document the lives of families living in squalor.

This option will examine aspects of the theory, practice, political activism and cultural production of the so-called ‘second wave’ of feminism which began in the late 1960s in the USA. (There’s disagreement on when it ended: some historians put this as early as 1975, while others make the mid-80s their cut-off point. The term ‘third wave’ was first used in print by feminists in 1987, though its inauguration as a real political phenomenon is most often dated to the early 1990s. This course will cover 1968-c.1987.) A range of materials will be used to examine second wave feminism and interrogate today’s received wisdom—both feminist and non-feminist—about it. As well as looking at its origins, its development over time and the different political currents within it, we will ask what was distinctive about it and what it has contributed to today’s feminist thought and activism. We will also consider the strengths and limitations of the ‘wave’ model itself.

I am glad to welcome you to this modest site. I have tried to assemble here a small legacy of songs left from the Soviet era. All of them were at once widely known and popular in the cities and towns of our glorious Motherland.

Some of these songs, even now, are known to practically everyone who has been born and raised in the USSR and other socialistic countries. Others, on the contrary, have been long forgotten, during the course of time.

En complément de notre schéma de l’extrême droite contemporaine, voici une frise chronologique centrée sur le FN, mais qui évoque la plupart des autres groupes nationalistes : cette perspective historique est nécessaire, car si la très grande majorité de ces formations est née dans les années 2000, elles sont toutes, de par l’histoire de leur formation ou celle de leurs dirigeants, ancrées dans l’histoire de l’extrême droite telle qu’elle s’est construite depuis la création du Front national.

In the past, the Red Poets have performed at many benefits and we always give our services for free. Some of the many causes we have supported are anti-opencast groups, trade union fund-raising, the Cymru-Cuba society and CND. We would be delighted to read our brand of entertaining,topical and often humorous verse at any events organised across the country.

There doesn't seem to be much of Idris Davies' poetry on the internet, so I've uploaded these, some of which are in "This World of Wales - an anthology of Anglo-Welsh poetry", ed. Gerald Morgan, and others gleaned here and there.

"Le sentiment séparatiste se justifie... historiquement et psychologiquement.

On peut aller plus loin et se demander s'il est possible qu'un Breton conscient soit autre chose que séparatiste?"

La grève du Joint français s'est déroulée du 13 mars au 8 mai 1972. Les ouvriers de cette usine de Saint-Brieuc, filiale de l'usine de Bézons près de Paris, revendiquent pendant 13 semaines une augmentation salariale et une égalité de traitement entre tous les salariés du groupe. La solidarité s'organise pour soutenir les grévistes, au travers d'une récolte de fonds, de spectacles... De nombreuses personnalités s'associèrent à l'époque au mouvement (Gilles Servat, Tri Yann, Claude Nougaro, etc).