Today, 13Apr06, we—bloggers, academics, campaigners, writers, scientists, journalists, citizens—launch the Euston Manifesto. With this document we hope to publicly assert our progressive, democratic, egalitarian, internationalist principles in the face of recent attacks upon them from the Right and, to our dismay, the Left.
Many of us are of the Left, but we come from across the range of political positions. We are not founding a political party. There were differences amongst us over Western military intervention in Iraq. Our declaration is not definitive, final, or perfect; it is, we hope, the beginning of a renewed debate, grounded in a common set of progressive values. You can read and sign the document at our Website where donations towards our costs are also welcome.
Comments are closed on this announcement alone because that is all this post is: an announcement. We simply want to launch this movement in a co-ordinated way and make sure there is time for people to understand exactly what we stand for before criticising it. We welcome discussion of the Euston Manifesto across blogs, in the media, and in the public world and intend that the Euston Manifesto Group, the organisation founded upon the manifesto’s principles, will promote such debate by organising meetings, sponsoring seminars, and publishing ideas.
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Norm, Nick, Pooter, Harry’s. No doubt many other places. I’m agin’ it of course. With this document we hope to publicly assert our progressive, democratic, egalitarian, internationalist principles in the face of recent attacks upon them from the …
[…] A number of prominent bloggers have today launched The Euston Manifesto, a wide-ranging declaration of principle. They themselves describe it as a “declaration of intent” for a “current of opinion” flourishing on the Internet but “under-represented elsewhere”. […]
[…] There is plenty of noise being made in the UK blogosphere about the recently announced Euston Manifesto (of which Norm, Harry, and PooterGeek appear to be among the founding fathers). I notice that it has come under quite a bit of criticism already, which is a good sign for any aspiring political movement (much better than being ignored); and it seems to have some support to. […]