School of Politics and International Relations

Dr Sofa Gradin, Is there really a crisis around identity politics on the left?

12 June 2017

Dr Sofa Gradin writes about the contradictory positions on the Left and how to move forward: “We must let go of the notion that the working class—or the ruling class—are homogenous. To include the concerns of many women, people of colour, queers and disabled people we must organise in the home, in community centres and night clubs, with accessible toilets and hearing loops, for alternatives to racist and violent policing, against gender norms and borders, and with sensitivity, emotion and attention to the needs and voices of specific groups as well as the goals that unite us.”
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