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, by FORSTER Rodney, HULL Sue, JONHSON Magnus, MAZIK Krysia
A large tanker has released jet fuel into the sea near crucial seal and seabird breeding spots, say local marine ecologists.
An oil tanker carrying jet fuel was recently hit by a cargo ship while at anchor 13 miles (21km) off the east coast of England. This set off a series of large explosions (…)
, by ELLIARDS Xander
THE Labour Government has been accused of pitting Ukrainian and Palestinian refugees “against each other” after Keir Starmer said it was “wrong” for a Gazan family to be allowed to settle in the UK.
The Ukraine Solidarity Campaign Scotland (USCS) spoke out against the Prime Minister after he (…)
, by HANNAH Simon
Simon Hannah on the history of working people fighting for democracy from below
In Britain, parliament is sovereign, it is where the power lies. At least, that is what they want you to think. A lot of power resides in a great many other places, including the boardrooms of major corporations, (…)
, by THORNETT Alan
Alan Thornett assess the significance of Rachel Reeves support for a third runway at Heathrow
I recently penned an article, assessing COP29, in which I describe the Labour government elected on July 4th as “hitting the ground running”— at least as far as its ecological agenda is concerned. The (…)
, by DAOOD Rula, GREEN Alon-Lee
On 27 January, Standing Together’s National Co-Directors Alon-Lee Green and Rula Daood addressed the UK Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee inquiry into the Israel-Palestine conflict.
We’ll be sharing some video clips of their comments soon. In the meantime, you can read a full transcript (…)
, by MAHMOOD Basit
Shadow Attorney General Lord Wolfson KC, who was appointed to the role by Kemi Badenoch in November, is ‘acting for the Russian arm of a logistics giant closely involved in one of Vladimir Putin’s pet projects’, according to The Lawyer.
The Tory party has long been criticised for its Kremlin (…)
, by RANCE Roland
Roland Rance critises the ramping up of the state’s determination to further criminalise protest and calls for action to fight back
The police harassment and disruption of the 18 January Palestine solidarity demonstration in London is evidence of a growing intolerance towards these events, (…)
, by COLLETT Rachel, STEER Alfie
Earlier this year, a one-day conference was held to mark 45 years since the publication of the seminal socialist-feminist text, Beyond the Fragments: Feminism and the Making of Socialism. Co-authored by Sheila Rowbotham, Lynne Segal and Hilary Wainwright, the book argued that the Women’s (…)
, by KOSUTH Dennis
Tempest’s Dennis Kosuth explains the reasons behind public anger at capitalist health care in the United States, anger given expression in public sympathy for the suspected killer of Unitedhealth care CEO Brian Thompson. But, he argues, it will take a mass movement to win health care for all. (…)
, by NORRIS Sian
Revealed: Former government’s anti-immigration laws have had horrifying consequences for modern slavery victims
Hundreds of modern slavery victims are in prison | Credit: Pexels/Composition by James Battershill
In October 2022, the Home Office made what could have been viewed as a small (…)
, by CANNELL Pete
Social services gutted, green transition neglected, public money funnelled to private business. Pete Cannell draws highlights from the Labour Party budget.
At first sight Rachel Reeves’ first budget marks a sharp change from the Tory budgets that preceded it. There’s a £40 billion tax (…)
, by MOODY Kim
AFTER FOURTEEN YEARS of Conservative Party austerity, scandal, incompetence and chaos, the Labour Party swept Britain’s (aka United Kingdom, UK) July 4th general parliamentary election, winning 412 of the House of Commons’ 650 seats.(1) In what amounted to a punishment for the wreckage that the (…)
, by KELLAWAY Dave
Dave Kellaway looks at the 12 key takeaways from the Labour government’s first hundred days.
In just 100 days, the government has taken away winter fuel payments from pensioners, chosen to keep 250,000 children in poverty, and desecrated the value of international law.
How much longer will (…)
, by JOHNSON Mark
When Roger McKenzie, the (then) assistant general secretary of Unison, failed in his bid to become general secretary in 2020, he fairly promptly got a job at Liberation (formerly the Movement for Colonial Freedom), resigned from the Labour Party and joined the Communist Party of Britain. (…)
, by PETTERSSON Lars B.
The Big Butterfly Count reported its worst results in 14 years of monitoring UK species.
Small tortoiseshell butterflies had their worst year on record. HWall/Shutterstock
The charity behind the world’s largest butterfly survey has declared a national emergency.
Butterfly Conservation’s (…)
, by DORLING Danny
Children are becoming poorer in the UK – more so than in other countries.
Children’s lives in the UK are changing.
They are becoming shorter in height. More of them are going hungry than they were a few years ago. Recently, more have died each year than they did a few years ago. Increased (…)
, by LAWRENCE Liz
On 10 September 2024 348 MPs (overwhelmingly Labour MPs) voted through regulations to cut the winter fuel allowance for all pensioners except those in receipt of means-tested benefits such as pension credit. In this article Liz Lawrence explores what this suggests for the direction of the Labour (…)
, by KELLAWAY Dave
Dave Kellaway responds to British PM Keir Starmer’s keynote speech on August 27th and on the first months of the new government.
Many senior Labour figures have a fascination with US politics, particularly the Democratic Party. They often mimic its messaging and electoral strategies. It’s (…)
, by SEYMOUR Richard
[For more than ten days or so, several towns in the UK have been the scene of racist riots targeting mosques, businesses run by Muslims and refugee centres. The riots began after the murder of three young girls in the coastal town of Southport on 29 July and the spread of false information (…)
, by Anti*Capitalist Resistance
1. The tragic murder of three young children by a 17 year old in Southport in July 2024 has been manipulated by opportunistic fascist forces to organise a series of riots across England. They have kick started a response from across the organised workers’ movement and threatened muslim (…)
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