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Dave Kellaway looks at the local election results. 1 – Tories less likely to win the next general election
Johnson’s Conservatives lost around 500 seats, more than any other party with a projected national vote share of around 30% which would mean defeat in a general election. Most of the Tory (...)
The difference between helping defend Ukraine and warmongering by Gilbert Achcar.
The Ukrainians are fighting a just war against an imperialist invasion and they therefore deserve to be supported. Their right to self-determination is not only relevant against Russia. It is also relevant to (...)
On Saturday 9 April a demonstration took place in London called by UK trade unions and supported by both trade union federations of Ukraine. Published below are the statements from the Confederation of Free Trade Unions and the Federation of Trade Unions of Ukraine.
Message to the rally by the (...)
Saturday’s March for Ukraine in London was one of the largest demonstrations I have been on for quite a while- and one of the strangest as the British left was almost entirely absent!
Except for the left contingent organised by the Ukraine Solidarity Campaign and supported by Another Europe is (...)
Mike Phipps publishes an exchange of letters with the Stop the War Coalition regarding the strategy of anti-war activists following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The [“No War on Ukraine” appeal->https://nowaronukraine.org was sent to the Stop the War Coalition who issued the following (...)
Dave Kellaway and Geoff Ryan make the case for a mass anti-war movement in support of Ukraine.
In our first draft of this article we started by outlining in some detail the differences on the left about Ukraine. We outlined the now well-rehearsed arguments about: relative importance of NATO (...)
Two weeks before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, as President Putin massed over 130,000 troops on the country’s borders, Stop the War Coalition (StWC) convened an emergency public meeting ”No war in Ukraine: Stop NATO expansion.” The advance publicity condemned “NATO’s nuclear warmongering and (...)
The Unite executive council unreservedly condemns Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and stands in full solidarity with the millions of victims of the attack. Unite calls for an immediate cease-fire and a withdrawal of all Russian forces from Ukraine.
In line with the oldest traditions of the (...)
The 1997 film “Wag the Dog” depicted an attempt to shift attention away from a sex scandal involving an American president by staging a Hollywood-style war in Albania. The premonitory character that the film acquired shortly after its release – when Bill Clinton got tangled up in the sex scandal (...)
Dave Kellaway asks if Boris Johnson can survive the latest party scandal.
When Boris Johnson was editor of the Spectator he made it into a hard right publication that took on political correctness and the consensual approach of one nation Toryism. At the same time the magazine’s office was (...)
The Tories are offering crumbs to some groups in order to ‘divide and conquer’, say campaigners
“I find it very offensive. It’s window dressing. It’s purely symbolic.”
Tyler Hatwell, the founder of LGBT Travellers Pride, is describing Priti Patel’s plans to wipe historic convictions for homosexual (...)
Unite general secretary Sharon Graham lays out her vision for the future of the Left – from rebuilding power in the workplace to forging new international alliances to take on multinational corporations.
Sharon Graham was elected general secretary of Unite the union in August, the first woman (...)
Dave Kellaway reports on the latest scandal to hit the Tory government.
Thank god there are some corners of the British press that still occasionally do their job and hold power to account. If the Daily Mirror had not worked away at the Christmas Party story then we might today be saying that (...)
British, Ukrainian MPs and trade unionists concerned by UK Foreign Office’s sponsorship of Ukrainian labour liberalisation
British MPs are concerned that a Foreign Office project could help “remove 80% of Ukrainian employees from existing protections” in Ukraine, openDemocracy reports today.
A (...)
As the Labour Party conference approaches, Phil Hearse questions why Keir Starmer would look to Tony Blair and New Labour for inspiration.
In his recent Financial Times interview, Keir Starmer said he would ‘turn Labour inside out’ and return it to the sensible politics of the Blair-Brown (...)
Nothing more to say on the statue wars? Events in Newcastle suggest otherwise…
The problem with dishonesty is that you have to remember your most recent falsehoods to at least try to keep your story straight. In their pantomime “war against woke”, the UK’s statue defenders are incapable of (...)
Keir Starmer’s Labour Party narrowly avoided a second successive by-election defeat to the Tories yesterday. But the most important story of the campaign was the alienation of British Muslims from a political mainstream that openly despises them.
It is a sign of how badly Keir Starmer’s (...)
Martin Crake reports on the danger posed by the ‘reactionary views’ of George Galloway.
George Galloway, a key figure in the formation of the Respect coalition in 2003, is standing in the July 1 Batley and Spen by-election for his latest political instrument, the Workers Party of Great Britain. (...)
It’s not just more of the same. The state is more important than ever. This looks like ‘bastard Keynesianism’. Neil Faulkner explains.
The recent Queen’s Speech setting out the Tory programme for government was laced with authoritarianism and racism. They threw various bones to their reactionary (...)
Simon Hannah offers his view on Dominic Cummings appearance in front of the Health and Social Care Committee and Science and Technology Committee.
Many people lapped up the testimony of Dominic Cummings in parliament on 26 May. He gave a hell of a performance, skewering his ex-boss Boris (...)
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