I've mentioned in this blog a few times my general dissatisfaction with the lack of belief in 'causes' these days, and even the first stirrings of radicalism - the student marches in the autumn - not being about big issues, but rather about self-interest and money. Whatever happened to radical politics? Or even simple belief?
This evening I was up at Highbury and outside the tube station was a stall selling Socialist Worker newspapers - I've not seen a Socialist Worker paper in a decade or more, but there was a small group selling them and talking to people. And then when I got home I found this video in my Twitter timeline, a lady called Lorraine on the 109 bus handing out leaflets and encouraging people to support the demonstration on 26 March. As a sometime user of the 109 I have to approve.
Well done Lorraine, whoever you are, for having a belief in something and the guts to stand up on a bus and talk to people about it. I won't be there on the 26th but I wish you all the best. And if I see you on the 109 handing out leaflets I'll gladly take one.
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