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Britain - Corbyn does the trick for the Labour party - Class Struggle 110 (Worker’s Fight, UK)
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So Jeremy Corbyn has done it. He has managed to turn around the Labour Party, refurbish it and make it “electable”. It may not have been in time for May’s 8 June snap election, but still. This is what explains the silence of the wolves - those former Blair and/or Brown supporters who have been out to get him in since he won the leadership contest in 2015. Because of course, they have smelt the coffee.

The September Party conference was considered by all - including Corbyn’s many critics - to be a triumph. More like a pop concert than a conference perhaps, but nevertheless everyone was amazed at the youthful energy, the huge and unprecedented attendance (13,000) and the many recreational and educational sideshows. Like the “World Transformed” event, with its large cast of well-seasoned and oiled left-reformist figures from Ken Loach and Hilary Wainright to visitors from the US, like Naomi Klein (social activist and anti-globalisation writer who wrote “No Logo”) and David Harvey (the “Marxist geographer” from New York City University)...

Now Corbyn is officially prime minister in waiting. As the right-wing bosses’ monthly, the Economist wrote, on the eve of the Labour Party conference : “Not even Jeremy Corbyn could quite picture himself as leader of the Labour Party when he ran for the job in 2015. After he became leader, few could see him surviving a general election. Now, with the Conservatives’ majority freshly wiped out and the prime minister struggling to unite her party around a single vision of Brexit, the unthinkable image of a left-wing firebrand in 10 Downing Street is increasingly plausible. Bookmakers have him as favourite to be Britain’s next prime minister. Labour need win only seven seats from the Tories to give Mr Corbyn the chance to form a ruling coalition. He will be received at next week’s Labour Party conference as a prime minister in waiting.”

And then the Financial Times chimed in on behalf of “enlightened” British capital: "What a difference...

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#David_Harvey : On #Syriza and #Podemos

Marxist geographer David Harvey recently spoke with il manifesto about the contradictions inherent in capitalism, the possibilities for its undoing and where Syriza and Podemos fit within its opposition.

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In Memory of Neil Smith - “Neil Reads USA Today: The Flip Side of the Weather is the News” 1984 on Vimeo
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In Memory of Neil Smith - “Neil Reads USA Today: The Flip Side of the Weather is the News” 1984

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It is with deep sorrow that we mourn the loss of Neil Smith, Marxist geographer and comrade in arms. Here’s something from the archives to remember him by. Neil passed away in the early morning hours of September 29th, 2012. Neil was a brilliant theoretician and an inspiration to so many. His absence will be deeply felt by communities of leftist political resistance and his brilliant ideas will influence our lives and work for many years to come. He was loved by so many.

Neil Smith was a Professor of Anthropology and Geography and the Director of the Center for Place, Culture and Politics at the Graduate Center department of the City University of New York.

In 1984, Neil collaborates with Paper Tiger and reads USA Today, America’s only national newspaper and the one with the largest circulation. The newspaper’s agenda of fostering national unity and consciousness through the dissemination of endless and useless trivia is analyzed. Finding the lowest common cultural denominator erases all tensions within American society and forwards the idea that the only difference between Americans are geographical anecdotes and the local non-happenings that fill up the newspaper’s pages.

#géographie_radicale #cartographie_radicale #neil_smith