Nothing seems to have created as much controversy (and generated a fair bit of hostility) on the left in recent months as the Euston Manifesto The work of a grop of prominent journalists (including Nick Cohen and Francis Wheen) , academics and political bloggers it intends to create a new democratic progressive alignment including not only the demoracatic left but also progressive non-socialists.
While I personally do not agree with everything in the Manifesto, in the main it accords with my own political outlook and as such I am happy to support it.
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I found this blog surfing.
I supported the New Totalitarianism document, but not this one.
See: http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2006/04/17/the-euston-manifesto/
Euston is one of the last twitches of what is left of the Left.
But I agree with much of it too, except the thing that defines the 'left wing neo-cons' - the war in Iraq.
The Left should stick to fighting its battles here in the west - not exporting its seeming irrelevance to somewhere like Iraq.
People must be allowed self-determination to overcome these regimes.
The alternative is what is on our tele screens every night. And we caused that carnage.
Hi, Im from Melbourne Oz. Im a moderate lefty.
Please check out 2 profoundly conservative (but not right wing)sites re the state of the world body politics.
1. www.coteda.com/fundamentals/index.html
2. www.dabase.net/coop+tol.htm
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