Category » Liberty Wall

From The Liberty Wall – English Green Debate (2) – Are We Truly Against The Modern World?

ENGLISH GREEN views itself as a unique environmental group. We are neither left nor right wing in the traditional sense – indeed we feel that we transcend these out-of-date political positions. Neither do we see ourselves in the mould of the uber-Politically Correct Green Party.

We wish to build a whole world green movement of land and people. And we look forward to the day when we are working and co-operating with ‘other nation’ greens. We feel that to succeed we must adopt both a principled and pragmatic approach to life.

As such we shouldn’t be frightened to ask serious questions of both ourselves and other green organisations. Such questions must include why so many greens support mass immigration whilst ignoring the effect it has on the environment and/or refuse to address world population growth? Also why do so many ‘green’ folks who care about animals turn a blind eye to the horror of ritual slaughter?

Bad housing is one aspect of the modern world that we can do without

However, one question we have to ask ourselves is: are we truly against the modern world?

On the surface, the answer seems obvious. For much of what we oppose – urbanisation, the wholescale destruction of our land and the constant abuse of animals – are indeed manifestations of the modern world.

We would also view the American influence on global culture as very damaging (to England and the English too). One look at our high streets, which seem to be stuffed to bursting point with fast-food outlets such as KFC and McDonald’s – with the seemingly attendant rise in obesity – are other examples of what we dislike about the modern world.

It’s fair to say that English Green is opposed to crass materialism. We favour a move back to the land, organic growth and believe in a spiritual relationship between Mankind and environment. But we’re not advocating ‘turning back the clock’. Perhaps we have a different view of what the ‘modern world’ could be!

Indeed, is everything about the modern world absolutely rotten? For instance, we support non-polluting – and renewable – methods of generating energy. To achieve this dream we accept that modern technology has a part to play in the production and construction of solar panels, sleek wind turbines and wave power electrical generators.

Additionally, we wouldn’t be able to hold this debate on-line if it wasn’t for ‘modern world’ developments!

Therefore, our question for this debate is: Are We Truly Against The Modern World?

The debate will be held on the English Green facebook page https://www.facebook.com/groups/167522623276444/

• CHECK out our previous English Green Debate (1) – How Do We Square The Circle? http://nationalliberal.org/from-the-liberty-wall-%e2%80%93-english-green-debate-1-%e2%80%93-how-do-we-square-the-circle

Date: November 5, 2014

Categories: Liberty Wall

Issue 156 of Fourth World Review On Its Way!

THE JOINT EDITORS of Fourth World Review – Wayne John Sturgeon and Graham Williamson – hope to produce issue 156 in the very near future.

Fourth World Review – 4WR – has been in production for over 50 years and John Papworth (4WRs founder, former Editor and now Editorial Board member) has dedicated his life to fighting ‘gigantism’ everywhere! The magazine still remains true to his ideals – and promotes a worldview that values the individual amongst the mass, the ‘little man’ against the big machines, and the small business against Corporate greed.

Indeed, John Papworth has stated that 4WRs purpose is to promote the “argument first put forward by Professor Leopold Kohr over half a century ago in his epochal Breakdown of Nations, later popularised in Fritz Schumacher’s Small Is Beautiful. They were simply arguing that the origins of the modern crisis lay in the fact that governments and institutions (including industries), had become so large as to be uncontrollable under any political label, and that the genuine democratic target lay in making them smaller so people could control them”.

This aim is reflected in the magazine’s long-standing slogan: ‘For Small Nations, Small Communities, Small Farms, Small Industries, Small Banks, Small Fisheries and the Inalienable Sovereignty of the Human Spirit.’

Issue 156 will contain another article on Nations without States, interviews, reviews and a look at the life of economic and monetary reformer James Gibb Stuart who sadly died late late last year. Mr Gibb Stuart is probably best known for his book, The Money Bomb.

Date: October 27, 2014

Categories: Articles, Liberty Wall

From The Liberty Wall – National Liberal Trade Unionists – Britain Needs A Pay Rise

SATURDAY 18th OCTOBER saw tens of thousands of Trade Unionists on the streets of Belfast, Glasgow and London. They were protesting about pay and austerity.

The demonstrations – held under the slogan Britain Needs a Pay Rise – were organised by the Trades Union Congress (TUC). The largest march and demo was held in London where around 80,000 – 90,000 attended. The London demo was well supported by members of Wales TUC (TUC Cymru) who had chartered a train from Cardiff.

As Britain’s public services seem to be under direct attack from the Con-Dem Government, it came as no surprise that many teachers, civil servants, nurses and other NHS workers took part.

The three demonstrations followed public sector strikes earlier in the week.

According to TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady, the demos were held to highlight the fact that the “average worker is £50 a week worse off than in 2007 and five million earn less than the living wage…If politicians wonder why so many feel excluded from the democratic process, they should start with bread and butter living standards.”

Reflecting on the TUC demonstrations, a National Liberal Trade Unionist (NLTU) spokesman said:

“Cameron and Clegg should dump their austerity agenda. It’s not working. It punishes those who’re not responsible for Britain’s economic woes. Thousands of ordinary British workers are being paid a pittance – the ‘working poor’ – or thrown onto the scrapheap. At the same time, those who make up the elite are still making money hand over fist.

The recession was brought on by ‘casino capitalism’ – a mixture of greed and mistakes made by the bankers, ‘fat cats’ and speculators. If anyone should be punished it should be these wide boys and shysters.”

• FOR more information about the National Liberal Trade Unionists click here: http://nationalliberal.org/liberty-wall-3/national-liberal-trade-unionist

• CHECK out the NLTU Facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/277840098977231/

• CHECK out the NLTUs first e-poster here: http://nationalliberal.org/from-the-liberty-wall-%e2%80%93-national-liberal-trade-unionists-%e2%80%93-do-immigrants-cause-unemployment

• CHECK out the following NLTU debates:

National Liberal Trade Unionists Debate 1 – How Can we Achieve Our Main Aims? (19/08/2013) http://nationalliberal.org/from-the-liberty-wall-national-liberal-trade-unionists-debate-1-how-can-we-achieve-our-main-aims

National Liberal Trade Unionists Debate 2 – What Should Be Re-Nationalised? (02/10/2013) http://nationalliberal.org/from-the-liberty-wall-%e2%80%93-national-liberal-trade-unionists-debate-2-%e2%80%93-what-should-be-re-nationalised

National Liberal Trade Unionists Debate 5 – Bob Crow: What Is His Legacy? (18/03/14) http://nationalliberal.org/from-the-liberty-wall-%e2%80%93-national-liberal-trade-unionists-%e2%80%93-bob-crow-what-is-his-legacy

Date: October 25, 2014

Categories: Liberty Wall

National Liberal Party – From The Liberty Wall – Nations without States – What Must Be Done (7)

WHAT MUST BE DONE (7): Welcome to issue 7 of What Must Be Done, the publically-available organising bulletin of Nations without States. NwS supporters are asked to read – and more importantly – act upon the instructions detailed below:

• COMPETITION. What does self-determination mean to you? The reason for asking is that the Organising Committee of NwS would like to include your thoughts in a future issue of Nation – the Newsletter of nations without States.

Therefore, NwS supporters are encouraged – in 600 words or less – to let us know your thoughts on self-determination. Please feel free to mention your specific nation or people. As our self-determination is a universal right, all self-determinists will have no problem in supporting (and showing solidarity with) whatever cause you choose to highlight.

This competition doesn’t feature any prizes – except the satisfaction of having your national freedom struggle featured in Nation. Please e-mail your article to: nationswstates@aol.com

• E-POSTERS. Earlier this year, Nations without States – in conjunction with the National Liberal Party – launched the first in a mini-series of self-determinist e-posters. We started with Western Sahara and we’ll be working through all of the captive nations that are supported by NwS.

Obviously this will take some time – to say the very least! However, we’d still like NwS supporters to send us their suggestions for future e-posters. We’re interested in all styles of e-poster – indeed, it may be the case that the more ‘off the wall’ the better as they may attract more attention.

Either e-mail your idea(s) to nationswstates@aol.com or leave a message on our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/groups/184919468292372/ once this article appears on it.

This issue of What Must Be Done should be read in conjunction with the following articles:

What Must Be Done – Issue 1: http://nationalliberal.org/from-the-liberty-wall-%e2%80%93-nations-without-states-3

What Must Be Done – Issue 2: http://nationalliberal.org/national-liberal-party-%e2%80%93-from-the-liberty-wall-%e2%80%93-nations-without-states

What Must Be Done – Issue 3: http://nationalliberal.org/from-the-liberty-wall-%e2%80%93-nations-without-states-4

What Must Be Done – Issue 4: http://nationalliberal.org/from-the-liberty-wall-%e2%80%93-nations-without-states-%e2%80%93-what-must-be-done-4

What Must Be Done – Issue 5: http://nationalliberal.org/from-the-liberty-wall-%e2%80%93-nations-without-states-%e2%80%93-what-must-be-done-5

What Must Be Done – Issue 6: http://nationalliberal.org/from-the-liberty-wall-nations-without-states-%e2%80%93-what-must-be-done-6

Date: October 16, 2014

Categories: Liberty Wall

From The Liberty Wall – Fourth World Review – Remembering Leopold Kohr

TOWARDS the end of last year, Fourth World Review (4WR) produced its first e-poster. It honoured EF ‘Fritz’ Schumacher, author of the iconic Small Is Beautiful – A Study Of Economics As If People Mattered.

4WR produced the Schumacher e-poster in response to John Papworth’s call for “a vast educational effort to resolve the multitudinous problems involved in the restructuring of power in society from the ground up rather than the top down.”

In this digital and milisecond media age, 4WR believe’s that one way of promoting this “vast educational effort” is via imaginative and thought-provoking e-posters.

With this in mind, a new e-poster has been produced. Using a stark red, white and black colour sheme as well as the slogan Small Is Beautiful – effectively 4WRs raison d’être – it aims to introduce a new generation of thinkers and activists to explore the works of Leopold Kohr.

Kohr is best known for his book The Breakdown Of Nations. Written in 1957, this highly original work predicted the problems posed by globalism – effectively before the term ‘globalism’ had ever been used!

He remains a highly original thinker who concluded that the root cause of social evil was that all sections of society had grown too centralized and too big. Indeed, the influence of the individual decreases exponentially with the increase of the population in a society.

Kohr believed that small nations work better for their citizens in every way – economically, socially, culturally, and so on. He thus believed that the time was ripe to return to human size – and called for the peaceful dissolution of nation states into smaller independent entities which can network or confederate as they choose.

4WR – as a long-standing radical decentralist publication – believes that Leopold Kohr’s The Breakdown Of Nations should be considered essential reading by those who wish to promote a more ‘rooted’ and natural form of living. We urge as many people as possible to read it, discuss it and become active in promoting its ideals.

In the meantime, we’d ask readers to ‘Like and Share’ this new 4WR e-poster on Facebook and link this article to any Twitter account(s) you may operate.

• CHECK out this 4WR mission statement: http://nationalliberal.org/liberty-wall-3/fourth-world-review

• CHECK out 4WR on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/288486767860011/?ref=br_tf

• CHECK out the first 4WR e-poster: http://nationalliberal.org/from-the-liberty-wall-%e2%80%93-4wr-%e2%80%93-first-4wr-e-poster

• CHECK out this YouTube video about Leopold Kohr: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDRd_TJvzhQ

Date: September 9, 2014

Categories: Articles, Liberty Wall

From the Liberty Wall – St. George’s Committee Debate (3) – How Do We Replace The Negative Media Stereotype Of England And The English?

GENUINE ENGLISH ADVOCATES – like the St. George’s Committee – universally accept that we must do more to promote English history, heritage, traditions, identity & culture. But in doing so, we face massive challenges. But what are these challenges – and how do we overcome them?

The St. George’s Committee (SGC) feels that prehaps the greatest challenge is that presented by sections of the mass media. This is because many invididuals involved in the media appear to be extremely Anglophobic – in that they exhibit an irrational hatred and loathing of England and the English.

This Anglophobia has led them to smear an entire people and nation. Sadly, they’ve been very successful in doing this. For there’s now a sweeping assumption that the English have no separate identity or culture whatsoever and that we are all simply beer-swilling football holigans. In addition, many people feel that the English are inherently racist and imperialist.

Of course all this is all nonsense. We have absolutely no interest in trying to ‘lord it up’ over others by enforcing our customs and traditions on them. No genuine English patriot would advocate this.

Indeed – if truth be told – most ordinary English working folks have more pressing things on their minds. These would include trying to pay bills and making ends meet rather than trying to repace the former British Empire with a new English Empire!

With this in mind, our question to all English advocates is twofold:

• How do we replace the (Anglophobic) negative media stereotype of England and the English?

• How do English patriots build – and promote – a positive image of themselves and what they stand for?

The debate will be held on the St. George’s Committee facebook page https://www.facebook.com/stgeorgescommittee?fref=ts

Check out our previous debates:

St. George’s Committee Debate (1) – How Do We Promote English History, Heritage, Traditions, Identity & Culture? (19/07/2013) http://nationalliberal.org/from-the-liberty-wall-%e2%80%93-st-george%e2%80%99s-committee-debate-1-%e2%80%93-how-do-we-promote-english-history-heritage-traditions-identity-culture

St. George’s Committee Debate (2) – Why Does The Establishment Hate The English? (29/10/2013) http://nationalliberal.org/from-the-liberty-wall-%e2%80%93-st-george%e2%80%99s-committee-debate-2-%e2%80%93-why-does-the-establishment-hate-the-english

Date: August 21, 2014

Categories: Liberty Wall

Categories

Recent Blog Posts

Free Speech: How Do We Protect It? - Gab Turns 10: Ten Years of Free Speech and Building for the Future (Part 2)

Free Speech: How Do We Protect It? - Gab Turns 10: Ten Years of Free Speech and Building for the Future

Petition: Hold A Referendum To Bring The Water Industry Into Public Ownership (Part 2)

What Future For British Steel?

National Liberal Trade Unionists – Marking The Centenary Of The 1926 UK General Strike (Part 2)

Category » Liberty Wall

From The Liberty Wall – English Green Debate (2) – Are We Truly Against The Modern World?

Issue 156 of Fourth World Review On Its Way!

From The Liberty Wall – National Liberal Trade Unionists – Britain Needs A Pay Rise

National Liberal Party – From The Liberty Wall – Nations without States – What Must Be Done (7)

From The Liberty Wall – Fourth World Review – Remembering Leopold Kohr

From the Liberty Wall – St. George’s Committee Debate (3) – How Do We Replace The Negative Media Stereotype Of England And The English?

Of course all this is all nonsense. We have absolutely no interest in trying to ‘lord it up’ over others by enforcing our customs and traditions on them. No genuine English patriot would advocate this.

Indeed – if truth be told – most ordinary English working folks have more pressing things on their minds. These would include trying to pay bills and making ends meet rather than trying to repace the former British Empire with a new English Empire!

With this in mind, our question to all English advocates is twofold:

• How do we replace the (Anglophobic) negative media stereotype of England and the English?

• How do English patriots build – and promote – a positive image of themselves and what they stand for?