This quote is from an interview with Socialist Worker from 2008.
Jeremy Corbyn Interview
Red Pepper interviewed the Labour Party leader and asked if it was his sense that the same type of thing (insurgent political campaigns from the Left achieving victory against all odds) is happening elsewhere.
Yes. Because this wasn’t anything to do with me. This was to do with people wanting a different way of doing politics – particularly the young people who came in and were very enthusiastic. Our campaign was a combination of the young and the old, very little in between, the middle-aged weren’t there. They were either under 30 or over 60, most of the people that came in to work on the campaign, and the phone-banking they did was quite extraordinary. There was one of them where I witnessed this 18-year-old Asian girl with a burka explaining to a 90-year-old white woman how to operate the mobile phone to make calls, and they were both getting on just fine. And it was kind of lovely.
Read the interview: ‘What we’ve achieved so far’: an interview with Jeremy Corbyn | Red Pepper
sister scarecrow hair
she came to me in a dream again
with wild scarecrow hair
biting her lower lip
eyes wide as a child’s
a lifetime ago
we were partners in mischief
disguised as suits in the daytime
headbangers after 5
it was like an elaborate joke
that no one else was in on
a conspiracy
for subversion
for world domination
they never knew what hit them
wolves in wolves’ clothing
we were the smartest people in nearly any room
and we could read each other’s minds
people assumed we were lovers
not true
the truth is we adored each other
and we invented an elaborate joke
an intricate game
that no one could have invented
and that only we could play
once in awhile
with scarecrow hair my erstwhile sister
pops in to a dream
to remind me
Cleaning Up The Hudson
Here’s the story of how an idealistic crackpot’s crazy idea saved what was once one of our dirtiest rivers.
prayer of rebellion
forbidden beauty
frightening
prodigal
born of abandon confusion neglect longing
lord
may the prayer of these hands
unspoken
unknown
keep him safe
waiting at st. john’s
the diovan takes hold and the palpitations come
i am dizzy
frightened and i
need to pee
but i dare not leave
the family
surgery
waiting room
a man i’ve not even met
is cutting her
this waiting is always
the worst part
at least it has been all of the other times
i hope it’s the worst part
today
blackface massacree
30 years defending poor blacks
and this undermines those efforts
his wife, in the 2012 election, denies leaking
elin nordegren
came close to brief comment:
“i wouldn’t dress up.”
he suspects that enforcement
is calling for white performers
who use black paint
for a protest
and then gag his opponents
the other republican running was part of a couple’s costume
the former lead
which began making a job that he’s not capable of
tried to explain, hearkening back to a style
to bow out of and act out
insulting black stereotypes
like a battered tiger woods.
days of slavery
persisting for decades
but what has given fuel to the president of the local 9-iron?
how’s your morning
i measure the morning by the
coffee left in the brown mug
i wait for her phone calls
i arrange the ones and zeros
i check my blood pressure again
one-twenty-three over seventy-four
heart rate fifty-six…not bad
she doesn’t call very much anymore
we are both busy at work
we are settled into our routines
maybe i ought to call her
i wouldn’t know what to say
just “hello” and “i miss you”
i guess that’s all i’ve got
half a mug of coffee left
the street sweeper just came by
maybe it’ll help with the drainage
wonder if she thinks of me
in the beginning we could spend hours on the phone or in chats going on and on about everything and sometimes we’d argue but we’d also laugh and we were so in love it just seemed like we couldn’t stand not being in contact for even a few minutes and the long distance bills were insane in fact it probably almost paid the rent just the savings on the phone bills once she moved down here
the coffee is cold and bitter
i arrange the ones and zeros
abstract and mathematical representations of things
wonder if anybody even notices them
google probably and also san francisco
at least i think they notice
i feel very abstract myself sometimes and i don’t know whether that’s something to worry about or not since it’s certainly not unique in the world at least from what i can tell from my friends on twitter and it’s not even particularly unique to me though it seems to be more common now than it was in the past or maybe i’m just able to articulate it a little better now or i think i am
i think i am going crazy
at least sometimes i think so
sometimes i just think i’m spoiled
i expect too much from life
weird tapping sound outside the window
dripping of some sort or another
it just got quieter and faster
i’m not really isolated or whatever
i have my ones and zeros
google’s algorithms stand at the ready
they wait for my next transmission
google this is me
google we have a problem
google she used to call me
cold bitter coffee ones and zeros
one-twenty-three over seventy-four
not bad
Ask Not
but let us of the deadly atom, yet torch
become the prey of hostile
subject to proof.
The dark powers of destruction
and villages across the globe
unleashed by science
signifying that first revolution.
That first revolution.
those peoples in the huts
Which divide us.
hope unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us
explore the stars, conquer
and bitter peace
the absolute uncertain balance of terror
undoing of those human rights
for we a new generation of Americans
born
dare not forget today cooperative ventures
the United Nations, our
our adversary,
we offer not the absolute power
to destroy
of its terrors
Let every nation know, tiger ended up inside.
Ended up inside.
stays the hand of mankind’s renewal, as well as change
it is both racing
to alter that we share,
never fear to negotiate
for we are the heirs
let word go forth from this forum for invective
for in this century, tempered by the hand of God
oppose any foe, liberty.
Any foe, liberty.
Communists may be doing it, pay any price, bear any shield of the new
and time and place, to friend final war.
Friend final war.
Arms are sufficient.
bleeding manifesto
the common ruin
of social rank
the means developed
the old ones
paved the way
demand ever rising
the rising bourgeoisie
took its place
new conditions of oppression, new navigation, railways extended
in the same rapid development
same rapid development
the new markets
no longer sufficed
bourgeoisie and proletariat
from class antagonisms
from class antagonisms
commence, middle ages.