We live in a north London street which, despite its impressive 19th century architecture, is peopled mainly by “council tenants” (public housing residents). This is largely due to the left-of-center politics of the local council (government), which bought up large areas of such housing in the (...)
On 5 June, the BBC photoshopped an image of Jeremy Corbyn to include Osama bin Laden. Then, it broadcast the image as part of the opening sequence on its flagship Daily Politics show, three days before the general election. And just after the UK suffered a series of terrorist atrocities.
Such (...)
Spanish voters turned against the incumbent conservative party after the 2004 Madrid bombings.
On March 11, 2004, just a few days before a critical election, a series of nearly simultaneous bombs exploded on four commuter trains in Madrid, killing over 190 people. Before the bombing, the (...)
Left Unity condemns the brutal and criminal terrorist attack on London last night. We send our deepest sympathies to the families and friends of those so tragically lost, and our love and solidarity to those injured and in distress.
The Prime Minister says that things cannot continue as they (...)
LONDON — Less than 24 hours after terrorists killed seven people and injured dozens more in the heart of London, the latest attack to hit Britain this spring became a campaign issue Sunday, with just four days before an unpredictable national election.
Rival party leaders lashed out at one (...)
Pedro Sanchez was re-elected as leader of the PSOE (Partido Socialista Obrero Español - Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party) – defeating his right wing opponent, Susana Díaz, after having been forced to step down from the leadership under pressure from the right in October 2016.
1. Disoriented and (...)
Mancunians show real Manchester spirit as they shout down EDL protesters.
Mancunians turned their anger on the English Defence League when the far-right group held a display in the wake of last night’s deadly bombing.
Men carrying English flags clashed with police and protesters outside the (...)
The huge Labour losses in the local council elections are just what the Labour Right was hoping for. Peter Mandelson said as much late last year, when he stated he was hoping for Theresa May to call an early election that would result in a disastrous Labour defeat and therefore the removal of (...)
Joel Geier, associate editor of the International Socialist Review, spoke to Australian socialist Corey Oakley about the shifting relationship between Donald Trump and the institutions of the U.S. government and American ruling class, in an interview for the Red Flag newspaper.
WHEN I spoke (...)
As expected, the Dutch elections of the fifteenth of March showed a shift to the right – but in a somewhat different way than foreseen. The fear that the far-right PVV (Partij voor de Vrijheid, Party for Freedom) of Geert Wilders would become the largest party did not become reality. Wilders won (...)
“The way the Leave campaign have tried to ramp up a fear of immigration has been disgraceful—but the truth is that if you see an immigrant in a hospital, they’re far more likely to be working there than being treated. The time has come to brand the “Brexit” campaign for what it is—a bid for a (...)
A decision of the Social Democrat government to pass an urgent decree, which partly decriminalized the abuse of office and other related misconduct, brought more than half a million Romanian people onto the streets since last week. The government was wrong to pass this decree. There is no doubt (...)
A ruling by the European Court of Human Rights highlights a pattern of persecution.
“It was like hell. Bottles and stones were falling on us like a hailstorm,” Alfréd Király recalls. “All the children were terrified. We asked the police to protect us but they wouldn’t.”
More than four years after (...)
Matteo Renzi’s constitutional reform was politically illegitimate in method and antidemocratic in content. We should celebrate its rejection.
Listening to the media, you would think that yesterday’s Italian referendum results were yet another victory of right-wing populism against democracy. The (...)
Ivan Crivellaro – Unblock our future, Unblock our rights. Dump Renzi.
1. A thumping defeat for Renzi’s anti-democratic and pro-capitalist project.
Renzi wanted to change the constitution to remove the senate and to centralise more power in his hands as prime minister in order to achieve the (...)
Yes, the defeat of Renzi’s constitutional reform was a victory. And no, it won’t condemn Italy to right-wing authoritarianism.
Yesterday’s papers offered a gloomy take on what was at stake in the Italian consitutional referendum. The Sunday Times headlined that prime minister “Renzi resists the (...)
Prime Minister Theresa May’s turn to the populist right is a watershed moment in British politics.
Is Theresa May a fascist? Obviously not. She may talk the talk these days, but has never walked the walk.
This is the leading Tory who spent years in opposition decrying the party’s reputation as (...)
Seb Cooke assesses the changes and continuities in Tory policy following Theresa May’s first conference as leader, and what this means for the left.
So there we have it. The Tory leadership’s response to the widely acknowledged push back against 40 years of neoliberal politics is to don a (...)
The victory of the 5 Star Movement (M5S according to its initials in Italian) and its young candidates, Virginia Raggi and Chiara Appendino, in the municipal elections of June 2016 in two symbolic cities of Italy (the capital, Rome and the main industrial city of the country, Turin) has revived (...)
It is beyond doubt. The Southern economy will suffer a considerable impact from Brexit and from the imminent recession, the approach of which has accelerated due to the Brexit vote.
Capital inflows to Britain have already faltered and an ERSI study, titled ‘Scoping the possible’, estimates that (...)
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