I'm a student from the uk and I want to get involved in politics, not simply as a means to make money but to uncompromisingly fight for my views, especially on neglected topics that the news media isn't interested in covering. What kind of steps can I take to do this?
How do I get involved in politics?
Caleb Ross
Gavin Nguyen
Just give up now if you have to ask and aren’t rich.
Jaxson Roberts
Unless you're going to start writing books and yelling the streets, you're done for, anyone who has gone the electoralism route only ends up getting fucked literally and figuratively.
Joseph Hill
Join some sort of organization
Levi Gray
learn how to make molotov cocktails
Wyatt Young
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Jackson Edwards
Since nobody seems to answer your question, maybe you should join a political party (labour, maybe?). And before anyone bemoans about "muh bourgeois democracy", unless we go mainstream, we're not going anywhere with out little circlejerk.
Matthew Jackson
I'm an amerilard, so I'm not familiar enough with UK politics to say whether or not this applies, but I can only imagine it does:
Unlike the much higher profile national/regional elections, local and civic elections are often very severely neglected in terms of voter turnout. As such, in many areas, even meager or no campaigning, a gregarious and charismatic individual can literally sweep an election with just their personal acquaintances/friends/family/etc (100-300 individuals).
Hunter Thompson
Depends on tendency. The only ones I know offhand that are cool are the Solidarity Federation, which is an anarchist labor org.
Christopher Flores
Join your local labour party and join a union. I would also recommend the Co-operative Party too as they have strong clout in labour party policy but they don't offer student discount on membership, just "low income" at £2 a month.
Momentum are an independent group within Labour that you should also join for £5 a year (low income rate), they represent everyone left of the Blairite "centrists" and actually are in better touch with campaigning on behalf of labour than labour itself as labour has still too many right wing saboteurs diverting resources to Blairite strongholds to the detriment of marginal leftists at the last election who won with Momentum's organising despite the sabotage.
You can join Labour for £3 a year as a student but you get the same privileges as any other member including voting power on who runs your local party, voting power towards the Labour Party Executive Council, as well as having involvement in policy formation (happening right now) and the leadership contests when they come.
Apparently the NUS is a legit union that campaigns and lobbies on behalf of students (I couldn't tell to be honest when I was a member, but I was a care free liberal without praxis then), so join them too and make sure you attend meetings, you'll likely be among influential and future wealthy liberals there who you could inoculate with pro-working class theory. The NUS isn't even affiliated with Labour like other unions are which is a damn shame, given that students stand to benefit from Labour policy and were obviously sold out by Labour by Blair because they didn't have any say within the party.