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Latest ARTICLES from CSM
In this section you can find the latest articles from the Christian Socialist Movement. There is exclusive web content alongside articles from the Common Good magazine.
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| | The History of CSM | | The early Christian socialists; FD Maurice, Charles Kingsley, J M Ludlow and others, might have found little common ground with those who gathered at Kingsway Hall in 1960. Most of them knew little about socialist thought or political engagement, though
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| | Dr. Andrew Bradstock |
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| | Plug for 'labour neighbours' | | In a speech on 17 July 2010 Jon Cruddas MP mentioned CSM's 'Labour Neighbours' project. This will be officially launched at this years Labour Party conference.
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| | Ian Geary |
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| | Book review | | I spotted this book review on the Fulcrum website. It looks well worth a read.
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| | Ian Geary |
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| | Labour Neighbours - the plan | | CSM is at the forefront of the debate about what it means to be 'local' and Labour. This paper unpacks how these 'Labour Neighbours' projects could develop.
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| | Ian Geary |
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| | Labour Neighbours: Mission not Meetings | | Andy Flannagan sets out his vision of a key dynamic for the future of campaigning, of local politics and of how CSM and Labour might learn from local activists making a difference around the country.
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| | Andy Freeman |
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 | | Robin Hood Tax: A Guide to digital resources | | This guide to all digital resources available is an essential if you want to get involved through the web, your blog, facebook or email. It also has lots of great resources to educate yourself and others on the issues
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| | Andy Freeman |
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| | Latest Campaign Update | | Find out the latest on two major thrusts of the campaign as we move into the summer. CSM is an enthusiastic supporter of the campaign.
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| | Andy Freeman |
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| | Citizenship is Fragile | | Hard-won citizenship rights that ensure our entitlement to vote or to be tried before our peers are entrenched in law and tradition. Like the low rumble of traffic noise, citizenship is unremarkable, taken-for-granted and unnoticed.
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| | Dr Eric Stoddart |
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 | | Week of prayer in parliament 2010 | | 24-7, Christians in Parliament, SUSA and many others are coming together to pray for Parliament this coming week (from Sunday 6th). Find out more here
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| | Andy Freeman |
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| | A Letter from a CSM Candidate | | This letter is a fascinating insight into the thoughts and approach of a CSM candidate on the campaign trail and is a great spur to pray for Nick and other candidates
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| | Andy Flannagan |
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| | Private Evangelicalism | | Private Evangelicalism discusses how Church leaders need to stop asking our congregations to bring people to
church and start asking them why they are not inviting others to come.
Alan Molineaux is a freelance writer and church leader, tweet him@almolx
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| | Faith in the future | | Helen Dennis catches up with three CSM members who will be standing as candidates at the general election: Sam Burden, Susan Elan Jones, and Allan Davies
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| | Helen Dennis |
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| | Face to Faith 6 Months On | | Face to Faith was a programme founded to connect 11-16 year olds of different faiths and none through video conferencing. Co-ordinators will be meeting for the first time in London to discuss the progress they have made.
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| | Tony Blair Faith Foundation |
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| | Tribute to David Taylor MP | | David Taylor MP died on Boxing Day. Read Richard Robinson's tribute to this great man 'a wonderful example for many Christian Socialists to follow'.
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| | Richard Robinson |
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| | The family and the left | | Stephen Beer and Jayne Buchanan argue that Christians on the left need to get serious about the family.
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| | Stephen Beer and Jayne Buchanan |
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| | Campaign socialists | | With a general election just months away, Andy Flannagan recounts his experiences of campaigning, and sees it as an opportunity to follow Christ’s example of service.
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| | Andy Flannagan |
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| | Which political issues? | | In the second instalment of a three-part series for The Common Good, Nick Spencer asks which political issues Christians should be most concerned about.
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| | Nick Spencer |
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| | A clear choice | | Stephen Timms MP argues that supporting marriage through the tax system would favour those least in need of support.
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| | Stephen Timms |
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| | Supporting families fairly | | While focusing state benefits would improve the opportunities of the most disadvantaged, writes Lee Clark, the Child Trust Fund should remain available to all.
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| | Lee Clark |
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| | Why Does Thou steal….? | | Theology student, Eva Parker, responds to Father Tim Jones' controversial statement, that he might recommend stealing.
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| | Eva Parker |
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| | Interview with Jon Cruddas MP | | I think CSM has got a massive part to play in the future of the Labour Party, but more broadly as a transmission port between different movement politics and party structures. The CSM does occupy that scene within a party, where people can link into it.
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| | Failure at Copenhagen | | Leaders and activists have expressed disappointment at the Copenhagen climate talks' failure to deliver a legally binding commitment to effective caps on CO2.
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| | Jonathan Langley |
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| | Andy Flannagan Reflects on 2009 | | What a year! Christmas is a time to sit down, take a breath and be thankful, so that’s what I’m going to do over the next few moments. I hope you don’t mind joining me.
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| | Andy Flannagan, CSM Director |
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| | Copenhagen Explained | | Jonty explains what the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference is, what it means, and why it matters, especially to Christians.
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| | Jonathan Langley |
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| | Time to pay our climate debt | | You can’t blame developing countries for a lack of ambition when their solutions are much more bold than anything the G8 came up with.
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| | Nicholas Dearden & Jubilee Debt Campaign |
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| | Time to End the Vulture Culture | | Vultures funds – otherwise known as ‘Distressed Debt Funds’ – feed off the very poorest. Usually based in tax havens, these companies buy up developing country debts for a fraction of their real value and then sue the country in question for...
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| | Nicholas Dearden |
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| | Justlife Community Interest | | Justlife is a social enterprise which exists to raise aspirations for vulnerable adults by opening doorways to healthcare, housing and employment. The dream is that by enabling people who are so often marginalised to seek the help and support they need...
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| | Gary Bishop |
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| | Recapturing a sense of what is the Common Good. | | We need collectively to be honest and realistic about what we ask our politicians to achieve, and not push them to promise what cannot or should not be delivered within the resources that we have.
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| | Richard Vautrey, Vice President, Methodist Church |
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| | Sudan - Justice is just 75cm away. | | Where the border should be between North and South Sudan seems mundane, but is a basic issue of justice. It may never be needed if the referendum votes for unity over secession, but the uncertainty fuels instability, threatens investment, and lives.
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| | Asa Humphreys, Barnabas Fund |
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 | | Why politics ? | | 18 yr old David Bagg gives us his perspective on why God is calling a generation into politics. Personal calling and strong convictions in a heartfelt article.
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| | David Bagg |
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| | Faith Matters | | Monday night (9th September) saw Tony Blair deliver the first of series of seminars entitled ‘New Perspectives on Faith and Development’ . He concluded that 'faith matters' and that faith groups have a massive role to play in development
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| | Andy Freeman |
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| | Whistleblowers and Prophets | | WHISTLEBLOWING IS A THANKLESS JOB. ASK PAUL VAN BUITENEN, NOW SITTING IN THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AS A ONE-MAN PARTY, EUROPA TRANSPARANT...
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| | Jeff Fountain |
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| | Clause 13: Protecting the Unheard | | Rachel Davies, Human Trafficking Officer at Care explains the complexities of Clause 13 and a vote which could have a big impact on lives like Anna ..
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| | Rachel Davies |
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| | Taking the Next Step | | Allan Davies explains how rewarding it can be to join the Labour Party, as well as the process for joining and becoming active in your local Party branch.
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| | Allan Davies |
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| | Is politics broken? | | Revelations about MPs’ expenses have seriously damaged the British public’s view of its politicians. We asked Labour politician Stephen Timms MP and church leader Dr Jonathan Oloyede to discuss whether politics is now broken and how it can be repaired.
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 | | The Daily Debt | | How debt is becoming a personal part of the downturn for many people. How can we pray, and what can we do ?
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| | Andy Freeman |
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| | The Call for Change | | Jay Hart Román writes honestly about the economy and economics and calls for lasting change.
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| | Jay Hart Román |
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| | The Return of Morality | | On Wednesday, March 4th 2009, Labour MP Tom Harris wrote a very challenging blog, which we provide for you to read below. Perhaps even more interesting are the comments made in response to this article...
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| | Tom Harris MP |
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 | | Good to Great: What do we expect of CSM ? | | Terry Wynn brings a thought provoking look at our expectations for the movement. What do we want CSM to be and how can we rise to the challenge together and see God at work in our movement ?
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| | Terry Wynn |
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 | | My Pension, Their Pension, Everybody’s Pension! | | Liquidity crunch, falling stock markets, falling interest rates, increasing longevity: all bad news if you are making personal provision towards your retirement and are planning to retire in the near future! Lee Clark looks at pensions.
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| | Lee Clark |
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| | CSM and the Labour Party | | The nature of the Christian Socialist Movement’s relationship with the Labour Party has provoked controversy in the past and is something that we will always struggle with. There are members who have advocated continuing a close relationship with Labour.
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| | Jonathan Cox |
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| | Religion and Politics | | Organised religion is always ambiguous. It can be both an instrument for good or for great evil. When I consider the history of organised religions the world over and look at the present state of our world and the countless acts of violence committed.
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| | John Sentamu, Archbishop of York |
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| | Inequality: it’s not the politics of envy | | It’s hard to hold onto intuitions that equality and fairness are important when others – including most of the government – seem to have abandoned theirs. A belief in greater equality has always been close to the core of socialism.
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| | Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett |
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| | The effects of inequality | | A few years ago I was working as a community development worker in one of the UK’s outer housing estates. One day a distraught local resident came in to the offices to talk to one of my colleagues.
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| | Jude Smith |
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| | The Story So Far | | Since when did equality become the standard to which we should rally as Christian Socialists? What do we mean by it? Equality is under threat.
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| | Stephen Beer |
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| | Get Fair | | I’ve seen it happen too many times. Start quoting statistics and a glazed look comes into people’s eyes, and before you know it you’ve lost them. We’re suspicious, and sometimes rightly so, that anything can be proved with statistics.
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| | Fran Beckett |
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| | Equality in practice | | When Jesus said ‘the poor you will always have with you’, (Matthew 11), he was not endorsing inequality. Quoting Deuteronomy 15, he was reminding us that God’s earth provides for all, but sin – human greed and selfishness – keeps people poor.
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| | Stephen Timms MP |
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| | Avoiding Scapegoats | | Talk for more than a couple of minutes with anyone who works in the City and you will sense a dark cloud of gloom descend upon the conversation. The scale of the financial crisis that has hit the world remains hard to describe.
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| | Stephen Beer |
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| | New Economics | | The “nanny state” has had to step in and we now observe the struggles going on between the financiers who strode the globe, the governments cleaning up the mess and the masses of individuals, who are the most vulnerable.
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| | Anthony Sperryn |
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| | The Party Isn’t Over... | | Christianity has had its fair share of visionaries, men and women with a clear idea of how the world could be a better, fairer and more peaceful place. And we Christian Socialists are the present-day bearers of their torch.
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| | Andrew Bradstock |
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| | Arthur Henderson and Methodism | | As Labour’s first cabinet minister, their most revered Foreign Secretary, and a Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Arthur Henderson (1863-1935) is a hard act to follow as Member of Parliament for Barnard Castle and Bishop Auckland.
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| | Helen Goodman MP |
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| | Facing challenges: Notes from the Chair | | Do politics and religion mix, or should they be kept separate? Well, Christians who believe in the politics of social justice say loud and clear that they cannot be kept apart.
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| | Alun Michael MP |
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| | A Personal Journey | | When someone asks me, “Why do you support the Labour party?” I often have a set thing I schpiel off about how The Labour party stands for fairness, equality, standing up for those without a voice etc.
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| | Suzy Stride |
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 | | Will the Left get it? | | In his book God’s Politics Jim Wallis' subtitle is “Why the American Right Gets it Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It”. Over the last few years I think the left in the UK may have drifted into a similar position.
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| | Andy Reed MP |
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