The right-wing press, media and nutters have out done themselves yet again. With headlines such as “London under attack from Yobs,” and “Hooded Youths attack London,” grabbing the attention of the public, I can honestly say that I feel sick. The Media and the Government aught to be utterly ashamed of themselves, pinning this worthless attack on the Youth of Today. My statement that I sent to LBC Radio in the early hours of the morning looked at how kids rioting in these areas are from different socio-economic backgrounds to those of Mr. Camerons cabinets children. They are from some of the poorest areas in the country. Whilst violence, arson, theft and petty crime is completely abhorrent, the Government and Media has made matters worse by their harsh and unfounded comments on young people.

What they should be doing is investing in these young people and these impoverished areas. Instead, they are damning them and disgracing our country even more. Yeah, it is completely wrong that they’re stealing, some of these people are probably stealing food and so on because they can’t afford to do otherwise.

So yes, the violence is wrong, but it makes me Sick to see Goverment Ministers and Nick Clegg condemning these young people and making out that a 16 year old stealing a load of bread is the scum of the earth, when Dave’s millionairre Cabinet continues to praise the biggest theives in this country, the Bankers. Get your priorities right Cameron, because if you don’t, there’s going to be more protest, more riots and more embarresment for you and your so-called government.

I class stealing a TV as much less of a crime than stealing £60billion in Tax Evasion. So until Cameron tells Vodafone and the rest of these cheats that they will face the full consequences of their illegal actions and that they are the real scum of our society, I will not condemn the young people on the streets of London. I will Condemn their violence and their arsonry and thuggery, but I will not condemn their moral agenda that they may even be sending completely indirectly.

This is the foreward and introduction to my ideological explanation of "The New Left," please pass this on and give your comment.

My name is Liam Young. I'm a 15 year old living in the city of Lincoln, England. I am a Socialist and a proud member of the so called “loony left.” My political orientation will become very clear throughout this book, so I shall make it obvious for you now. I am a member of the Labour Party. I am a believer in Freedom, Fairness, Equality and an Equal Proportion of Representation. I come from a fairly working class background with middle class parents. My father is a self employed plumber and my mother is an events organiser. Along with having a passion for politics I am interested in music, history and English literature. Add on to this the fact I'm a normal teenage lad trying to juggle a social life and one that thirsts for knowledge for the future.

I sit to the left of British Politics and watch the right wing members of society rip apart the fabric of our country day after day. Together we create this country through cooperation and we make it what it is. We control its strength and its weakness. As a nation we are strongly united behind patriotism and we also have a strong foundation of multiculturalism and acceptance of other societies. But enough of me, I may be a person, but this is about the people.

As I sit here writing this on my Dell Net book that my mother bought for me and I look out of the dining room doors to see a trampoline, patio set, paddling pool and a large sized garden, I think of everything wrong in this country. Why do I have more than somebody that lives down the road from me? Do I deserve it? Has it been, in some way, god given? Of course it hasn't. It's because my parents work and earn money, and as they say, money makes the world go round. But this is the problem. People are judged on wealth and their social status every single day of their lives. Nobody can escape it, even if you lived on a remote desert island, you'd still have the sense of judging yourself and what you had with you.

Judging is not always a bad thing, it does have its good side. Like we can judge between what is right and what is wrong, or when we judge to do something or not, because of the ramifications doing that thing may hold. But are these not two different types of choice or judgement? Surely judging somebody on how they look or on what they own is different to taking the decision not to gamble at an amber light because of the chance of being hit by incoming traffic? 

Or do we simply live in a society where people are more interested in what a girl from down the road says about them as opposed to protecting their own life? I think that is for you to decide. I've always used the phrase, “how sad is it that we live in a world where even water is a bottled and commercial product.” I think this phrase is true, the world has simply become a sad place.
It's become a place of depression, misery and corruption. I'm only 15, but I know that 5 – 10 years ago, things just felt happier. Spirits were lifted back then and people were told about what they would go on to do as opposed to what they have done wrong in the past. I have no evidence to back this up, there is no statistic or number that shows this to be true. It's my opinion and experience. Sometimes I believe that these two things can be stronger above statistical evidence, people know more about what they have done rather than the analysis of what they have done.

This is the same story for Britain, as a country and a nation we've become an area of pessimism, depression and overall sadness. We are lacking motivation and people feel like there is no escape from the grasp of depression which currently has hold on us all. In the 2010 General Election we elected a Conservative and Liberal coalition that had gone on to damper feelings and disenchant thousands of people. The main problem is that people have simply given up on politics, they've started to see it as a bad thing, that in some way, politics is just another dirty word.

But it doesn't have to be that way. The world isn't going to stay miserable and depressed forever. We need to be uplifted and as a nation we need to be saved. This country has only ever been under left wing rule for very few years. Even I will admit, the left wing of the old ages was one that became unpopular and was seen as miserable itself. Old Labour lacked inspiration, it lacked an ability to connect with the country. Its policies were in the right place. A belief in common ownership, a strong economy, individual rights, equality, freedom and opportunity. But at the same time it failed to show what I call popular politics.

Another sad thing is that we live in a world where a suit or a dress could probably change the outcome of an election. Where somebodies hair is judged above their principles and where a persons smile is judged above their knowledge. But sadly, there is nothing we can do but embrace this new type of politics. What we can't do is embrace it with old politics and old ideologies. If we are to embrace a new era and a new public then we must do so as new people ourselves. Left Wing politics is still alive and always will be, but it's time for us to adapt into a new force for change.

I mentioned earlier on that I am 15 and I understand what some may take from this. Some may ask what value I can give through this book and some will say I'm simply too young to understand the concept of the Economy or Politics. But that's the sort of right-wing thinking that has disenfranchised millions of people over the years. The belief that politics is only to be accessed by the few rather than the many. I may not have the life experience but I do understand what's going wrong in the world. I know the people that have had the experience, I know how they feel and I know how they are now. We need fresh ideas and they're here to be offered. I'm here to support a new ideology. An ideology that fits left wing politics with a form of popularism and connection.

The New Left; People's Politics and a People's Party. With People's Policy at the heart of every decision made.

Before we talk about a new form of Left Wing politics, it's important to recognise what Left Wing politics encompasses. To many, anything that is Liberal, Socialist or Communist is considered Left Wing. There is no universal definition of left wing or even right wing for that matter, in fact many people believe the wing system to be a ridiculous attempt to try and scope every single political party on one axis. I believe that the political spectrum is defined by the distribution of wealth and how individual parties feel about representation of each class within society.

Leftist policies tend to focus on the beliefs that wealth should not be distributed upwards to the richer and the more wealthy but instead should be distributed downwards. Conservatism and other forms of right wing politics tend to refuse to even acknowledge this but it is plain and simple fact. Another simple fact is that since the creation of government, it's always normally gone upwards as opposed to downwards or equal distribution.

It's important to remember that there is no universal explanation of what left or right wing is, it is simple opinion. Somebody could say that Hitlers Facism was left wing to them as they could be extremely right wing. However, there are the common explanations, typically the Conservative party is seen as right wing and the Labour party is seen as left wing. This is common practice and common public knowledge. Members aligned to the left wing are commonly connected to revolutions and revolutionist policies as well as being reformists and liberals. 

People criticise the left wing for being idealist dreamers and as coined in the 1987 general election, “loonies.” Many believe that left wing politics is self-defeating and confidence lacking. Left wing governments tend to get in power and serve just one term because they fail to motivate and capture the hearts and minds of the voters. They do amazing things but don't boast like the Conservatives or right wing politicians do. Maybe this is a good thing, a sign of maturity and respect. But in the age of politics in which we live I think it is more than necessary to “flout” about what has been achieved. This was demonstrated when Gordon Brown made his last conference speech as leader of the Labour party. It was an extremely strong speech that inspired the hearts of many Labour activists and the wider public. 

The main thing about left wing politics is the importance of the people and the voters. Right wing politics is normally dedicated to what lobbyists want and pay for, where as left wing politics is dedicated to a correct and proper mandate given by the people of a country, chosen by the people of a country.  We have seen time after time that governments have supported private interests over public opinion. The left wing of politics recognises freedom and choice, we give people the opportunity to take their own decisions rather than thrusting government opinions upon them.

The right wing of politics used to throw about things about leftists in order to blank the opinions of those who believed in freedom. When issues of homosexuality arose and the general public was not so acceptable, the right wing governments said that the socialists wrongly supported it, the same was on the issue of abortion and the same on the issue of individual lifestyles. But this came back to bite them in the neck as well! Because the public became tolerant and accepted that people have the choice of who they love and how they live and that this is a part of life that shouldn't be chosen by any government organisation.

Left wing politics is right on social issues, but the reason the right wingers used to prompt this up was because generally, people agreed with left wing economic standing. Right wingers used to use the social problems as diversions from what people really wanted to hear, the things that normal people believed in as well. Such things as equal pay for equal work; the minimum wage; fair hours; equal rights in the workplace; proportional taxation; social control over organisations and business' which affect the whole public. The left has always aspired to become the champions of the real great ignored, the normal people in society who have been taken advantage of by business men and right wing governments for too long. But many people on the left wing lost their way, because all the money is where the right wingers are.

You don't get much money for being a man of the people, for championing the working classes or protecting families. You get money from becoming best friends with high class business men and CEO's of corporations. We feel that the state is collectively made up of individuals. Left wing governments are forces for social justice and change and we should intervene in the lives of people in order to achieve great things. We can't simply let people get on with life and hit the road on their own.

We believe that governments should be doing things to not just help one area of the country or certain groups, but instead to help the entire society. But overall there must be that net of support for the most disadvantaged in our society, we should be equal. Things like Universal Education are huge matters of social justice, that people should have a right to the same level of education no matter how much money you have. 

These are the main principles of left wing politics. The ideas of Justice, Freedom, Solidarity, Cooperation and Equality are crucial in attempting to form a civilised and truly connected community.

The party fighting for this in the UK is the Labour Party, the Socialist and Democratic party within our country. Even though it has turned much more central in recent years, it is the real progressive force for change on issues like social justice and cooperation. Once upon a time there was a real left wing Labour Party, which is coined nowadays as Old Labour. A true trade unionist and political movement.

After the people's act was passed and workers became enfranchised in the political system, it was clear the the Tories and the Whigs weren't going to represent this class of people. Under the first Labour government of MacDonald in 1923 it was clear that things were to change for the better. Even though the party was joined in a Liberal coalition and not much socialist policy was passed, some long lasting legislation reached its way through the house. The Wheatley Housing Act was the main measure that began to build 500,000 homes for working-class families. At the same time the country began to adopt legislation on education and unemployment that made things seem fairer in the country at last. However it was short lived yet again and after 9 months the government collapsed and a Tory government was elected back into power. When the party returned in 1929 things were no better. Even though more reforms were passed and the first ever female cabinet minister was elected, Britain was hit with the great depression and a National Government was formed. With the Labour Party still representing a pacifist ideology and WW2 heading around the corner, things would have to change.

And in a typical sense of people's championing, the Labour Party took to the policy of rearmament and also opposing Neville Chamberlain’s disastrous policy of appeasement. Then with post war victory under Atlee, the Labour Party introduced one of the most radical governments of the 20th century. In true left wing form the party presided over a policy of nationalisation, taking major industries like the Bank of England, Railways, Electricity and Gas, Mining and the Steel Industries. Under Atlee came the creation of the welfare state. But of this government came the greatest achievement of any left wing organisation, the National Health Service. Creator, Nye Bevan, called it “a true piece of socialism.”

But yet at the next election the Labour Party won with a much reduced majority. After all of the great things achieved, the public was left disheartened and uninspired once again. But then again when we returned under Wilson we became responsible for sweeping social and educational reforms. Legalising abortion and homosexuality and expanding the welfare state. But in 1970 we lost again and a pattern was slowly starting to emerge.

Left wing politics was and still is, the greatest force in British political history. The true force for Social Justice and Equality. But things need to change. The public perception of left wing politics lead to its early and unnecessary demise. This is something that has stayed the same, public attitude to left wing politics hasn't really changed. In 1997 it took the Labour Party to move right in order to get elected under a big landslide majority.

This is the problem we face today. Left wing politics is still alive but is not in the hearts of the people any more. Sometimes it is hard to believe that the Labour Party itself is a left wing movement. 

The New Left is a force for Social Justice, a left wing ideology met with a new age of popular politics. To every business man and to every banker, to every lawyer and to every CEO there's probably ten fold nurses, bin men, teachers, hospital staff, secretaries, care home assistants and more public sector workers. If these people were to vote for what they believe in every election then the party that represented these people would be returned at every election with huge landslides. The New Left is built on the principles of equality and solidarity, an understanding and value of individual human rights that show dignity to every human being. 

The New Left recognises the need to do so through economic liberalism, progressive taxation, income redistribution and support for the weak, the vulnerable, the workers and the normal people. The New Left holds the belief in an equal proportion of opportunity, where people are given the opportunity to succeed if they want to and have the determination to do so as opposed to who their father is or how much money they have in their bank accounts. The New Left is an ideology that believes in meritocracy, where positions are given to individuals based on their expertise, intelligence and ability to perform as opposed to their social status or ability to get to the position whatever the means. 

It's time to get the people on side. The people believe the policies that are represented by left wing politics. They believe in national labour rights, human rights and a new attitude on equality and distribution of wealth. They believe in equal working hours and maternity leave. They believe in the ideals of freedom, equality and solidarity. This is what we believe. This is what they believe. The problem is that nobody has ever put the interests of the people before the interests of those paying for rights. The New Left is an ideology that matches Social Justice with the Politics of Popularism.

The New Left does not believe in Communism. The failures of communism have been seen in the past, the way that communism was enforced and not wanted by it's public has shown that it was a failing ideology. The principles of communism show that it was an ideology built on taking something over with force and with revolutions. I want to make it clear that The New Left is in no shape or form, a communist ideology.

That is why The New Left believes in socialist economics matched with those of a capitalist state. We believe that capitalism has been a route of evil, but we also recognise its ability to inspire and drive economic success. The New Left believes that in modern day society, land and accessories are commodities to be bought and sold and not simply to just satisfy human needs in the sense of collectivism. We believe that it would be wrong to simply announce an end of buying and selling. We believe in democratic control of the economy matched with a partial policy of common ownership.

We believe that the Marxist theory, from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs, should be met with an economic society where people are allowed to be rich and prosper but not at the suffering of the poor and vulnerable. Through staunch capitalism everything would be privately owned and people would work entirely for their own profit. Through staunch socialism  everybody would work collectively and the money would be given to the state in order to be distributed evenly. We believe that people should be able to work and have private owned business. We feel the reform is needed through a fairer programme of taxation and a fair and well rounded redistribution of wealth to the poorest in society rather than the richest. We also believe in a partial policy of nationalisation, where the government is entitled to take failing companies under its wing to produce profits for public interests or domestic charities.

Instead of socialist economics or capitalist economics, we believe in economic liberalism. The belief that the government should play some role in the economic infrastructure of the country, but that the free markets should determine economic outcome. The New Left believes reform is needed in the redistribution of wealth.
The Labour Party is the most mainstream left wing party to support in the UK, even though it may not be as left wing as many of us would like. 

I attended Labour Party conference in 2010 and I was completely overwhelmed. As a young labour party supporter it brought me great pleasure to sit amongst people who shared the same views as I did.. However, I did have an awakening on the Wednesday of conference. As I took the usual queue to get inside, there was a man, a man who was a supporter of Old Labour policies. He had become angered with the current Labour Party. He stood outside, in usual workman clothes, no megaphone, no media, just himself. He was speaking about how the right had infiltrated the Labour Party. Many ignored him, many laughed and mocked him. Instead I decided to speak to him and it was then that I realised my views were much more left wing than I had previously anticipated. 

I once declared myself as a 'Blairite.' I believed that New Labour was great and everything it did was extraordinary. To some degree, I still believe this. Whilst the party was not perfect, it was electable. I feel that we need the charisma and ability to sell policy to the public to be taken from New Labour and addressed with The New Left.

He spoke about how conference had become elitist. With Members of Parliament sat at the front in reserved and raised platform seating and with delegates being hand picked before the speaking sessions by members of the NEC. He spoke about how it was wrong that the media was given seats over normal Labour party members. And as he spoke to me about these things and others simply mocked him, I began to realise; wait a minute, this is actually true. This is actually happening.

I was lucky enough to get an invite to Leaders Speech and I remember the length of the queues and how many members were turned away. In the conference hall however, the balcony seating was full of the press; the press that seeks to destroy our party every day. They were given priority seating over normal people. I personally now hold the belief that the Labour Party, has become disenchanted with its core voters and the real people of this country. The Conservatives will always have their core voters, they will always have the rich and the elite on their side, they will also have the continuing support of middle England, no matter how much the Labour Party tries to take it off them. You see the thing is, for every banker and for every business manager there’s many more workers, many more shop workers, many more tradesman, many more that are unemployed and seek help, many more nurses and doctors, many more teachers, many more bin collectors, many more soldiers and many more workers that give their support to the public sector every day of their lives. And the truth is, the Labour Party haven’t looked after these people as well as they could have. Although I do believe that Brown and Blair were good for the party, they pandered to much to the front pages of the Daily Mail. The Labour Party pandered to much to try and gain the collective support of the middle classes, and to be fair, in some places it did work. But we redistributed money to the middle, rather than equally or to the poorest in our society.

And the truth be damned, the Labour Party left the working classes to rot, they stopped caring about those people who go out and work god knows how many hours to support their families and to support their home. They left the impoverished to suffer. Yes, the Labour Party brought over a million people out of poverty, but think how many more could have been saved if they had of focused more money and more attention on them, rather than the attention we gave to Rupert Murdoch. We left the persecuted to be persecuted and we let the media take hold of calling anybody that dare argue for fairness and equality, members of the ‘loony left.’

People say that the old Labour Party was pandering to the trade unions. Correct me if I am wrong but I believe the trade unions are a collection of an estimated ten million people or more who work for the common good and in the national interest. The Conservative party are allowed to pander to the privileged few of the country, people like Lord Ashcroft that donate millions to their party. I think this is continuously misrepresented. The Conservatives suggest that the public would rather have a party funded by 100 millionaires as opposed to 10,000,000 hard working and decent people?
New Labour simply ditched the hard line socialist policies to attract a more mainstream voter, but the thing I don’t understand is that the normal people in this country are working class or skilled working class. There is proportionally more working class voters than middle class or upper class, simply because more people have lower paid jobs in comparison to higher paid jobs.
Therefore I would propose that the Labour Party becomes much more involved with its core voters. They need to mobilise the working classes to vote Labour once more. I believe that The New Left is the answer to mobilising these people and bringing the Labour Party back to the glory it deserves.

If every single person who holds Socialist and Democratic views voted for the Labour Party, they would be returned to govern at every single election. Yet the party is scared to do so. But why? I don’t understand why. They say we moved right in order to attract new voters and we did, we attracted middle England voters, but before, we had the working class support to some marginal level.
Now is simply the time to tell the working classes what the Tories and their Liberal counterparts are doing and say why the Labour Party is the correct alternative and the party that works for representation of the working classes in this country. I personally feel that over the past ten years the only representation the working classes have had is that from the trade unions, not from the Labour Party itself. There were small changes to working practices, such as the introduction of the minimum wage and the working time directive, but nothing really made the working classes back us again, because we were still focusing all our resources on middle England, and we still are, but under a different name, ‘the squeezed middle.’ What does this quote exactly mean? I mean if the middle is squeezed, then what the hell has happened to the working class? Has the working class just completely disappeared? I mean if the middle classes are squeezed then god knows what the working classes are dealing with. The New Left is an ideology that proposes better representation of the poorest in society, the working-class, a new and fair redistribution of wealth, a fairer programme of tax and an economy ran on the principles of economic liberalism.

(This is all my own work, for that reason all of it is Copyright to myself, however, please do spread this and let people know about the possibilities of a new left.)

Yesterday morning I woke up to shouts coming from my living room, it was about 8 in the morning and I believe it was exactly four hours and thirty minutes since president Obama had made the announcement. “They got him, oh my god, they got him,” is all I could hear for about two minutes.

Being absolutely shattered I didn’t question who ‘they’ had got and simply tried to doze off. But being the news geek I am, I decided to check the sky news site on my blackberry. In great yellow and bold letters, the words ‘Osama Bin Laden Is Dead.’ I jumped out of my bed and ran through to the living room where both my mother and father were still sat, eyes pierced on the tv as pictures of Bin Laden flashed on and off and as counts of people were interviewed by correspondents all over the world. I don’t know why, but I felt subdued.

I was very young when they found Saddam all them years ago, but I do remember the day I did, as a little kid running through to my nans living room and seeing them reshow the pictures of them bringing that almighty status down, and the images of the hole in which he hid. For some reason I felt proud, a sudden rush of emotion ran through me as I sat there for minutes gazing at the words ‘Osama Bin Laden Is Dead,’ and also listening carefully to the words of Pakistani people, troops from the front line, from our own politicians to Obama himself. And its true, politics has poisoned me. Because as much as I was overjoyed with the fact that many thousands of people would be sat in their american living rooms crying tears of joy at the fact that the man who orchestrated the killings of their family members had been brought to justice, in the forefront of my mind, and infact the first thing I said, was that Barack Obama has ‘easily just won the next election.’

For a few hours I thought wow, this is just absolutely amazing! The news on the first day was slow, many wanted pictures and videos to prove his death and some conspiracy theory’s were already showing. Another emotion I felt was one of annoyance at the fact that half of my facebook didn’t know who Osama Bin Laden was. But I let this slip out of my mind. What this blogpost is really about, is the news released today.

In the early hours of this afternoon, the news flash came up and the reporter spoke, “Pakistan has released a statement this afternoon saying it is very concerned at the unauthorised raid on Bin Laden and the fact they were not consulted” and boom, all those feelings of being proud and happy and the feeling of momentous joy for thousands of people around the world were gone. I sat there and I thought, wait a minute, they were in on it? Why are they not praising the fact he’s dead? Instead they’re having a go at us for killing him?

Well moments later, the head of the CIA released a statement saying “the reason we didn’t consult Pakistan was because we feared that the plan may be ruined and they may inform the targets. Another huge wow.

America was basically saying, even though though throughough the whole day they were saying this was a joint effort, we knew you knew where he was Pakistan.

And so I thought I’d take a look at his villa. Well, now knowing it was 100ft away from a Pakistani Military base and just miles from the capital, I thought something fishy was going on. Then I saw the villa. It was like a place that our Queen would go for a luxury weekend away, in the fact that it was guarded like a house of royalty. That’s why I now feel, like many others, that Pakistan knew where this man was and probably has done for many years. But why? What was he doing? Maybe he was bank rolling them? Giving them money so that they’d keep quiet about his whereabouts? And to be honest there haven’t been many huge attacks in Pakistan recently, they all stopped a few months ago, around October time, the same time Obama found out about this lead. Hmmm, did the Pakistani’s turn to him and say, “you give us more money, and we’ll say nothing.” I don’t know, I wonder if anyone knows.

Big questions clearly need to be asked and when I saw David Cameron completely bottle it and say that there was no need to question Pakistan, it reminded me of what a weak prime minister he really is. I guess we now have to have faith in the US Senate, they are pushing for a full review of Pakistani Intellegence and I hope they go through with it.

Although this is very important stuff, I still think the USA needs to show us some proof. I think this because of a joke I saw earlier -

“this morning I killed Colonel Gadaffi, trust me, I’ve got no pictures or videos and I dumped his body at sea, but take my word for it.”

Many more questions are going to arise, but now I think its important we remember the thousands killed by the terrorist organisation lead by Osama Bin Laden and keep the families of those killed in our minds at this time.