The Euston Manifesto » Euston Manifesto The Left http://eustonmanifesto.org for a renewal of progressive politics Thu, 12 May 2011 00:58:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= New Statesman: The Euston Manifesto: an introduction http://eustonmanifesto.org/2006/04/27/new-statesman-the-euston-manifesto-an-introduction/ http://eustonmanifesto.org/2006/04/27/new-statesman-the-euston-manifesto-an-introduction/#comments Thu, 27 Apr 2006 00:05:11 +0000 Norman Geras http://eustonmanifesto.org/?p=550 On a Saturday last May, right after the general election, 20 or so similarly minded people met in a pub in London. We had no specific agenda, merely a desire to talk about where things were politically. Those present were all of the left: some bloggers or running other websites, their readers, a few with labour movement connections, one or two students. Many of us were supporters of the military intervention in Iraq, and those who weren’t - who had indeed opposed it — none the less found themselves increasingly out of tune with the dominant anti-war discourse. They were at odds, too, with how it related to other prominent issues — terrorism and the fight against it, US foreign policy, the record of the Blair government, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and, more generally, attitudes to democratic values.

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