Yesterday, hundreds of protesters gathered at the annual SME 4 Labour awards ceremony to call on senior Labour figures to push for a full ceasefire in Gaza.
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Bye by-elections, hello hope
Each offers only a mildly different serving of uninspiring neoliberal hellscape, with only your choice of authoritarian topping to set them apart.
What’s left to vote for?
The local election results are in, the “hold your nose” crowd have helped hand Sir Starmer’s Labour a resounding PR win and congratulations, the prize is “Clause IV on Steroids.”
The next general election: Two parties battle for the wretched voters of England
The reason both parties are fighting to be the most horrendous is that both parties are trying to attract the same voters.
Rinsed for profit
The NHS will be 75 this year. If it were a person, they’d have been deprived of oxygen and food for 10 years, had vital organs sold for 10 years previously with contractors finding out which body parts they could do without before that. NHS dismantling, begun by Thatcher in the late Seventies, later progressed
Britain Not Heading Towards Socialism Anytime Soon
Jon Bigger muses on the outcome of the local elections and what it means for the Corbyn project. This isn’t exactly a shock is it? Last week’s local election results have been pored over and analysed and the overwhelming verdict is that they indicate the British people are in love in equal measure with Theresa May’s
Manchester: A reality check for Corbynism
Cuddly Jeremy’s fight to turn the Labour Party into a red blooded socialist party has some way to go, if Manchester is anything to go by. The city is virtually a one party mini-state with Labour holding 95 of the 96 council seats, so the perfect place, you would have thought, to start the Labour
Book Review: Private Government — How Employers Rule Our Lives
This is both an important book which raises a key issue and one which simply states the obvious. by Elizabeth Anderson ISBN: 978-0-6-91176-51-2 PP: 224 Princeton University Press 2017 It is both a well-researched work and one which ignores a school of thinkers who were pioneers on the subject. It is one which both challenges assumptions and
An open letter to Plan C on Corbyn’s Labour
Plan C recently ran a series of articles about the libertarian left and the Labour Party under Corbyn, including three which were very pro engagement. In this rebuttal piece from longstanding Anarchist Federation members Nick Heath and Bonnie VandeSteeg they make the counter-argument that Corbyn offers nothing new to revolutionaries, and indeed presents a threat to living
Protests and occupation in Glasgow and Edinburgh attack Scottish housing troubles
Two protests in Scotland’s biggest cities today have highlighted the damaging impacts on homelessness of the Benefits Cap and Glasgow Council’s failure to deal with its rough sleeping problems. In Edinburgh, an Our Welfare-called rally saw campaigners occupy Edinburgh Council’s city meeting chambers singing “we shall not be moved” in support of 11 families, including 42 children who