Category Archives: media

Macleans: Saving the anti-war left from itself

22Aug06 – 11:14 am

Have you heard the latest out of England? A commitment to the institutions of democracy. No excuses or apologies for tyranny. A two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. An affirmation that the United States is a great country and nation. These notions may seem common sense, bordering on banal. Yet they have caused quite the […]

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The Ottowa Citizen: Will the real left please stand up?

22Aug06 – 11:01 am

For many decades, and more noticeably in the aftermath of 9/11 and the launching of the “war on terror,” there has been a vacuum on the political spectrum. It has been harder for the so-called democratic or non-communist left, (or American Democrats in the Kennedy, Humphrey and Johnson tradition) to find an intellectual and political […]

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Wall Street Journal: Left Turn

09Jun06 – 4:06 am

At first blush, the Euston Manifesto doesn’t seem explosive. Conceived in a London pub and hashed out online, and signed by left-wing, mostly British academics and journalists, it declares itself for democracy and freedom of ideas, and against racism and terror. OK, great. Torn by the Iraq war and the fight against terrorism, Britain’s left, […]

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The Australian: Right of Left bounces back

09Jun06 – 1:18 am

A new democratic progressive alliance is born, writes Phillip Adams

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The Westminster Hour: The Euston Manifesto

04Jun06 – 12:00 pm

This is a link to more text and audio: British history resounds with the titles of great and stirring statements of political belief—from Magna Carta to the Tamworth Manifesto to the People’s Charter to the Euston Manifesto. The Euston Manifesto? Well, the authors of that last document at least hope that it too will be […]

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Blueprint Magazine: European Wake-Up

25May06 – 3:29 am

[Blueprint is the magazine of the US Democratic Leadership Council] There are cracks in the façade of European leftism that should give us all some hope. They come in the form of editorialists, academics, activists, and bloggers who’ve pretty much had it with the reflexive anti-globalism, anti-Americanism, and anti-interventionism of the 1968 generation in Europe. […]

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The Guardian: The Path Out Of Denial

25May06 – 2:37 am

Was the Euston Manifesto written, as some wags now say, in a pub? Well, no. Would you want beer spilt over your manifesto? Would you want it smelling of smoke? The document was mooted in one pub and discussed in another. But it was written where things get written these days, on computers. And this, […]

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Sunday Herald: Brian McNair

21May06 – 1:22 am

An old communist confesses: the class war is over and even Rupert Murdoch makes sense … what do lefties do now? EVERYONE remembers where they were the first time they found themselves agreeing with Rupert Murdoch. I was at my desk, circa-1995, reading a speech he had given on the global impact of new technologies. […]

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The Times: The Left Needs To Get It Right

18May06 – 6:42 am

The Euston Manifesto is a corrective to extreme views on terrorism, Iraq and Bush WRITING IN this newspaper two weeks ago, Daniel Finkelstein gave the Euston Manifesto—a document calling for a progressive realignment and which I had a large part in drafting—a mixed review. “Really very good,” he said. “I agree with its sentiments; I […]

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The Guardian: They should come out as imperialist and proud of it

10May06 – 4:06 am

Geoffrey Wheatcroft: There is a progressive tradition of support for colonialism, which the Euston Manifesto Group could champion Whatever else the Iraq enterprise and the supposed attempt to democratise the Middle East have done, they have produced some unlikely alliances, and begun some fascinating new disputes. The question of imperialism has been raised again, though […]

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