Welcome to City Strolls new site

City strolls is ten years old, in that time I have watched projects, websites, ideas, sparks of inspiration disappear. I have worked with individuals groups projects that have come to nothing after much investment of time and effort. I find it worrying we do not have an independent space where folk can learn about what is happening around them. Where we can engage and share knowledge with young folk. There is no such space in the city. What we do have is a whole range of specialist groups and organisations that maybe needs to start thinking about their collective potential. MORE

Richard Seymore speaking about he crisis of the left, the lose of the social base, tactics and structure.The lack of left infrastructure; breakdown of traditional institutions, NGOing of left politics, personalities, spectacle, anti political tendencies, defeatism and fragmentation, the fetish of the internet, neoliberal individualism and the draw towards market structures and rebuilding symbolic social space…