COMMUNITY POLITICS.NET

                      This site is an attempt to contribute to a very necessary debate on issues related to Community Development.

It should be considered as only one aspect of an essential reflection on what sort of society we must,collectively, begin to build if our world is to have a future. Many of those involved in personal and community development work across the world believe we must address the critical links between our social and participate community identities and those which relate to our work and class position. This is particularly crucial given the dramatic changes in the labour market in the latter half of the twentieth century.

This change, which, despite the so-called "Credit Crunch", has not been appreciated, much less confronted by those dramatically affected, continues to despoil those being used and abused despite their, media manipulated, self-perception. This,allied with the purposely disoriented class relationships posited within the existing neo-colonial (redesignated neo-liberal), consumption centred, credit dominated, cybernetic,capitalist model continues to negatively impact on the lives of each of us across our world. (Sorry for the plethora of verbage but I don't know how else to write it although I do know some four letter words to describe it) This is even more so because so many of our “political leaders” act in association with the finance capital fraudsters and the enjoined “packaged happiness” industries which both exploit, and control, an increasingly de-politicised population. We need a living debate, a permanent revolution, continually tested and shaped in personalised relationships. We need alternative political, cultural and socio-economic structures. It may be presented as antiquated and, indeed, in our present authoritarian culture of secrecy, surveillance,censorship it may even be dangerous, but there is no substitute for a practical, revolutionary strategy for change which requires confrontation with those structures, practices and relationships which are designed to exploit and oppress or which attempt to mystify the insanity of our present system of political, social and economic control: