Spring Podcast
Spring Manchester
This is podcast created by the Spring Manchester group consisting of recordings from the conferences and events that we organise.We believe that the left is in diaspora. Its historic support base – the organised working class, and with it notions of solidarity and collective discipline – is a pale reflection of its former self. Without this traditional constituency, every facet of the left has fallen into decay. Working class education and traditions, and most importantly a solid grounding in the needs and experiences of the mass of the population, have been lost to the winds. In place of retreating class politics, forms of identity politics less fundamentally critical of capitalist structures have tended to dominate discourse… an indirect attempt to combat the alienation and disempowerment felt by so many. We have lost confidence on every level. Once progressive movements of the left such as modernism in art and architecture to the contemporary eye seem contrived and faulty; the m