{"id":294,"date":"2015-04-29T12:22:10","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T11:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedissenter.co.uk\/?p=294"},"modified":"2015-04-29T12:22:10","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T11:22:10","slug":"classy-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www1.thedissenter.co.uk\/?p=294","title":{"rendered":"Classy War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Class War: the changing face of a political culture.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As a political activist at University, nationally, Class War was a very loud and visible presence on the student and youth political scene. Not\u00a0so much politics as political culture.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www1.thedissenter.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/images-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-295\" src=\"https:\/\/www1.thedissenter.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/images-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Class War - bash the rich.\" width=\"290\" height=\"174\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Bashing the rich<\/em> seems to be a mainstream political cause to\u00a0the Left of British politics today, indeed of &#8216;Progressive&#8217; politics everywhere. Didn&#8217;t work out for <a title=\"the failing policies of Francois Hollande\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iea.org.uk\/blog\/the-failing-policies-of-francois-hollande\" target=\"_blank\">President Hollande in France<\/a>, but the Left has always been big on rhetoric and short on delivery.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Times change, and so too it seems has Class War. Hadn&#8217;t been aware of Class War for many years, so when the BBC Daily Politics Show announced as part of the small parties series for #GE2015 it seemed an opportunity to check on &#8216;where are they now?&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/emp.bbc.co.uk\/emp\/embed\/smpEmbed.html?playlist=http%3A%2F%2Fplaylists.bbc.co.uk%2Fnews%2Felection-2015-32497600A%2Fplaylist.sxml&amp;title=Adam%20Clifford%2C%20one%20of%20seven%20election%20candidates%20for%20the%20Class%20War%20Party%2C%20said%20it%20%22represents%20the%20working%20class%22&amp;product=news&amp;lang=en-gb\" width=\"400\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Didn&#8217;t expect that.<\/p>\n<p>A week or so to go to Election Day, so in case there are more interviews of smaller parties, <a title=\"BBC Daily Politics Show, coverage of smaller parties.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-32167563\" target=\"_blank\">this seems to be the update page<\/a>. Brilliant from Andrew Neil and the Daily Politics team, showing that despite the passing of <a title=\"David Edward Sutch (10 November 1940 \u2013 16 June 1999)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Screaming_Lord_Sutch\" target=\"_blank\">Screaming Lord Sutch<\/a>, and the fading of the Monster Raving Loony Party, eccentricity remains fundamental to British political life.<\/p>\n<p>For reference, the <a title=\"The Official Monster Raving Loony Party - with its Manicfesto\" href=\"http:\/\/www.loonyparty.com\" target=\"_blank\">Monster Raving Loony Party<\/a> hasn&#8217;t gone away you know:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/emp.bbc.co.uk\/emp\/embed\/smpEmbed.html?playlist=http%3A%2F%2Fplaylists.bbc.co.uk%2Fnews%2Felection-2015-32335185A%2Fplaylist.sxml&amp;title=Election%202015%3A%20Alan%20Hope%20on%20Monster%20Raving%20Loony%20plans&amp;product=news\" width=\"400\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Class War: the changing face of a political culture. As a political activist at University, nationally, Class War was a very loud and visible presence on the student and youth political scene. Not\u00a0so much politics as political culture. Bashing the rich seems to be a mainstream political cause to\u00a0the Left of British politics today, indeed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[24,50,69,169,235],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections","category-general","tag-andrew-neil","tag-class-war","tag-daily-politics-show","tag-monster-raving-loony-party","tag-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www1.thedissenter.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www1.thedissenter.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www1.thedissenter.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www1.thedissenter.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www1.thedissenter.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www1.thedissenter.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www1.thedissenter.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www1.thedissenter.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www1.thedissenter.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}