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A far-right backlash against the home secretary’s asylum policy has brought a deluge of hate to a peaceful Welsh town
Take what follows as a little local horror story, if that makes you feel better. But I see it as a parable, a lesson in how toxic things can get when some of the basest (...)
Exclusive: Letter signed by more than 1,200 leading figures calls for ‘unambiguous statement’ about climate crisis
The Royal Society is under pressure from more than 1,200 leading academics to issue a clear condemnation of the fossil fuel industry.
The academics have written to the (...)
According to David Miller, the former University of Bristol sociology professor, it is a “fact” that “Jews” are “overrepresented in positions of cultural, economic and political power”, and are “therefore in a position to discriminate against actually marginalised groups.” Miller says that (...)
As cases rise, scientists say country is mostly in the dark about how infections could play out in coming months
The UK is nearly “flying blind” when it comes to Covid this autumn, experts have said, amid an increase in cases.
While the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) continues to track (...)
Geoff Ryan reports on the ongoing campaigns both in support of and hostility to refugees at the Stradey Park Hotel near Llanelli.
The Welsh Labour Government has declared that Cymru is a Nation of Sanctuary which welcomes refugees. That is something to be applauded and supported. It is (...)
The closer Starmer gets to number 10, writes Alan Thornett, the more concessions he makes to the Tories.
Yet, if the battering the Tories received in the recent by-elections tells us anything, it is that voters are totally fed up with Tory lies and corruption, their austerity and wage cuts, (...)
A report in the Morning Star of 26 July announced “Starmer’s benefits stance prompts bid for new party”. It was a news item, but it read more like a plug: “Figures from the labour movement have called for the creation of a new party ‘Transform’, warning that Sir Keir Starmer is ‘planning to (...)
South Asian garment workers in Leicester are resisting precarity and institutionalised racism in Britain’s “hostile environment” for immigrants.
The Rana Plaza tragedy happened 10 years after the International Labour Organization (ILO) declared April 28 as World Day for Safety and Health at (...)
There are a number of different factors involved. Climate change is resulting in more dramatic weather patterns – periods of drought which lead to the ground becoming baked dry, followed by heavy thunderstorms which the land is not able to absorb. This leads to flooding and to more discharges. (...)
The workers, who move missiles within the depot, are paid just £20,500 a year – only slightly more than the “National Living Wage”, ie the UK’s stingy minimum wage.
The workers who actually assemble the weapons are paid far more, having won a big increase last year – underscoring that the (...)
There’s no question that British politics is becoming more diverse. From only four minority ethnic MPs elected in 1987, now 67 MPs are from a minority ethnic background.
The Scottish first minister, Humza Yousaf, recently became the first minority ethnic leader of a devolved government and (...)
The illegal migration bill makes much of the Nationality and Borders Act redundant.
The illegal immigration bill has generated endless controversy on its way to becoming law. The bill, which effectively bans asylum seeking in the UK, has faced heavy criticism for its treatment of children, (...)
George Galloway does not get in the news often these days.
Yet the dapper gent in the Fedora has sometimes, not often, or indeed hardly ever, certainly not in recent left publications, been considered a historic figure, of inspirational value.
In a panegyric, Beyond Labourism, to (...)
The Morning Star these days is increasingly open in its desire to see Ukraine defeated. While denouncing, and not without some reason, the new inclusion of cluster bombs in US military aid to Ukraine, it is actually much more excited about signs of backtracking within the US ruling class (...)
UNISON conference in Liverpool in June 2023 was not as bad as last year’s (see the reports here). Then there was a concerted move by some elements within the union to dislodge the left leadership of the NEC and even drive them out of the union. In the interim, the Time For Real Change left (...)
Dave Kellaway examines the Tory crisis, while pointing out it is their contradictions rather than much positive about Labour which is driving the polls.
Sunak is facing a losing battle to stop a Tory defeat at the next election. Everyone can see that the Tory party is riven by factions with (...)
Chinese embassy in London tells UK to ‘stop interfering’ in China’s affairs, as Hong Kong leader says overseas activists will be ‘pursued for life’
China has accused the UK of protecting fugitives after the British foreign secretary criticised Hong Kong’s decision to offer HK$1m bounties (...)
Stop The War movement finds yet another reason to tell Ukraine to stop resisting…
Putin’s regime is in danger of collapse therefore Ukraine should stop fighting…That’s the message from Stop The War. Having been struck dumb by the events of Saturday 24 June, the campaign has finally come out (...)
Many academics in both Ukraine and the UK are horrified by the Putin-enabling posturing of far-left factions within the UCU
A few weeks ago, a congress in Glasgow of the University and College Union (UCU), of which I’m an active member, passed a ‘Stop the War’ motion that called for an end (...)
If delegates to Unite the Union’s upcoming biennial policy conference (11-14 July, Brighton) want to support withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukraine Ukraine’s right to self-determination strong links with Ukrainian trade unions and socialists clear demands for strong rights for all refugees (...)
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