can i post this?

I read it. I hope you publish it but I feel it's a bit too much about yourself for just a Slaney Street article? It's like a personal blog post (maybe we could have them built in somehow).

this is superb helena, serious political development, i agree with a huge amount of it and parts of it mirror my own experience (in retrospect the summer meetings weren't such a waste of time). it definitely should be posted somewhere, it's very important and pertinent right now. that said, i don't know if slaney street is the best place for it - unless, like dan said, we had writers' blog pages, in the vein of huffington post?

I don't get why it shouldn't go up on Slaney St. We agreed that Slaney Street would be a paper that writes and places itself "in struggle" and in the movement. We are writing for the movement as it is around us. We should be trying to key into the real debates going on. I think this article does that very well. In fact I think this is very relevant to slaney streets membership, well over 2/3rds our membership would probably point blank refuse to even think about joining a national organisation for probably the same hang ups which we should help them over come.

I think it is important that Slaney Street tries to serious political work based on the ideological struggles going on in the group around it. When it does that it is the most relevant. I think it is great that we try and produce lots of general analysis for the random reader and I have done lots of that.

However our core most loyal (and paying) audience are those who debating these issues and know helena. They are also the political struggle we are actauly based in. Educating them making them more political and useful will build slaney street and the struggle. I say publish it.

Creating a new category is simple. See https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-do-you-create-categories

this is how you add it to the menu http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Menu_User_Guide

however if the Editorial board tell me to do it can I can do it right away.

I'm liking the idea of having writer's blog pages on Slaney Street a bit separate to the news stuff so we could publish stuff like this without it seeming a bit out of place. Would have to keep the content going though.

yeah, i agree with that idea and will try to sort it when i get back from bradford.

sweet, could i have a blog page too?/what would the official procedure be to get a blog page? time to crank up the anti-kievan fascist junta propaganda

okay so i've sortof done it. it's published and in a new sub-category under 'personal political' cos i thought it'd make sense not to just have a personal one just for me, since other people wanna write similar style stuff. i'm not sure how to make it work with the drop-down menu though. @edwardbauer could you sort it?

also just to mention: NCAFC are also publishing it on their blog. the reason i think it's okay for that to happen is because having it on slaney st will open it to more commentary and an on-going set of articles on related topics, as well as introducing this aspect to the website. it also may reach a slightly different set of people. my hopes for it being on NCAFC is for student activists in particular to read it.

@helena I logged in to change the font out of the all caps one, it now looks nicer (as it deserves to look) since it is a great article. http://www.slaneystreet.com/2015/02/16/polemic-a-political-development-towards-national-organising-liberation-identity-politics-and-restorative-justice/