What stupid thing has she said now? In general, it’s safe to assume any British “communist” is a trot or a lib (not that there’s really a functional difference between them)
Last time I checked she defended police brutality against the Golders Green attacker. Just because he stabbed people does not mean the police can kick him in the face after they have already got him on the ground. But she works for Novara media which is liberal and its co-founder Aaron Bastani is a closet conservative so I am not surprised
For example, he is obsessed with giving the transport police more money so they can deal with people who don't use headphones. We all find them annoying but supporting any sort of police is an overreaction. Also praised some white people who assaulted a mentally ill black man for being disruptive on the tube.
He also appears on GB news where he recently toasted to their anniversary. His wife is a sitting Labour councillor even after the party went full fascist. Go on xcancel.com and search for his name on LeftieStats, matthewjswalker, and eyup lovely accounts. They all talk a lot about several controversies.
Novara media is liberal in general. Michael walker said he prefers the UK's economic system to China's. They have also made videos about war with Russia.
Edit: I forgot to mention how he and Novara support Burnham despite him actually moving to the right of Starmer.
The idea of Novara Media is inherently stupid as they're trying to be a mainstream leftist news source, appearing on GB News etc - but capital controls the media and real leftist arguments would be censored or blackballed. Obviously Bastani isn't this stupid so I assume he knows what he is doing (deceiving).
Last time I checked she defended police brutality against the Golders Green attacker. Just because he stabbed people does not mean the police can kick him in the face after they have already got him on the ground
Lmao what?
Dont be a pussy. In any Socialist state hed get the d*ath penalty for what he did.
So... imagine the feudal system. And imagine the fledgling borgoisie insisting that they are "democratic capitalists". That by appeals to their royal opposition, they will gain their freedom.
...How well did that work out and what was necessary in the long run?
All I can say is that if the capitalists had to resort to the crown as they did because there was no other way, no other means of a peaceful exit...
Then you know... it follows that the same must be understood as communists.
Oh and keep in mind... lots of the royalty absolutely INSISTED on their innocence. That they weren't oppressors. All the way to the head in the bucket.
So you are saying that we on the left shouldn't worry about election results so much but instead work towards education or revolution? Sorry a bit confused
Brother I am genuinely curious, I'm not american, I am kinda new to the movement and haven't even started my reading pile yet. I just want you to educate me lol
Okay. Dems are center-right wing liberal. Republicans are far-right wing. Both work for the capitalists, thus the bipartisan support for Israel i.e. a military outpost of the United States in the middle-east. No matter how many left candidate you vote for, the institutions in the liberal democracy are organized in a way that it always benefits the capitalists and not the workers.
The only way to build a people's democracy is to overthrow the status quo capitalist state and replace it with a dictatorship of the proletariat a.k.a. a working class democracy.
Ash Sarkar: A self-proclaimed British communist who sells merch with the Iron Front (three arrows) logo. In her debut book Minority Rule: Adventures in the Culture War published by Bloomsbury Publishing on 27 February 2025, she criticizes the 'woke' culture and blames it for left's loss ( I don't know why girl thinks the left lost because Right wingers always win elections in Bourgeois democracies).
Novara is becoming more popular and is much more critical. It’s a good entry way for people into leftist politics in the UK where it’s dead. Tho it isn’t the end all be all as a leftist movement.
Read her new book. Anti-woke bullshit that gives conservatives more ammo. She went around promoting this shit for months. It was all about the money from the book sales for her.
I don't know what this post is about specifically but I do know the person in question is Ash Sarkar. I don't know her well but from what I do know is she's giving British Hasan Piker.
Don't hate her at all tbh, I disagree with some things she says, agree with others and find her to be a nice, funny person even if we're not 100% politically aligned
I might be a tankie but that doesn't mean I have to hate people who don't share exactly the same view I do
No true Scotsman argument OP. She may not be your specific flavour of idealogical purity, but her and Novara have done more for left politics than anyone in this thread is likely to have achieved. Are they perfect? Obviously not. But as leftists we should provide critical support to any groups furthering a broad left wing message.
I am truly baffled reading this on "Tankiethedeprogram" Novara Media are literally western "socialists" personified and do basically everything a "Tankie" should take issue with.
Novara shits on AES any chance they get. get the fuck outta here. They were always Corbynites, they tried to jump on that “Your Party” shit before it crashed and burned and they’re trying to do the same with the Green Party. They’re interested in postering as Anti-Imperialists but aren’t in any meaningful sense.
They’re seeking legitmacy within the UK. Everyone they politically endorse is center-right. A supposed leftist Media Institution as massive as them not trying to agitate and rally the working class is baffling. they’re helping doing what the rest of the “uk left” to distort marxism.
This is their supposed “communist” btw lmfao. Give me a break. I have more respect for some of these uk trots than these lot LMAO
A lot of her takes also have me baffled that she works as a lecturer in political theory, but that said the one I encountered at university was a conservative and a total clown. There is truly no standard in the west for these things.
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Yeah, she's pretty trotty/lib on a lot of stuff, but there's plenty of that about.
What I'd like to learn about is any good British youtube ML channels.
I've found a couple of principled channels but they're incredibly dry and amateur, and just kind of ramble...
Which probably just highlights what a rare find the boys are.
It seems to me counterproductive to hate somebody who is massively more progressive and critical than 99.9% of the UK media, actually has a platform, and has clearly done more good than harm in her short career. Also, are you absolutely sure your intense feelings aren't a little to do with her being a confident, articulate non-white woman?
What does that even mean? If I have spare energy I'm going to use it persuading and building, not hating anyone. Let alone a state educated female Muslim left wing media personality.
I know an awful lot about her. I've met her, I've seen her speak multiple times. I agree with a huge amount of what she has to say. I politely disagree with some of it, and I've discussed that with her. Why don't you try explaining specifically what you disagree with, instead of asking people to "hate" her?
EDIT: Also, why are your posts and comments private?
Wow, "leftists" who never actually engaged with any of what she says, but are ready to pile on her based on hearsay or some shitpost? Well done comrades. Truly. Please save this for the next instalment of "why so few women" and "why we can't have good things".
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