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, 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 (…)
, by PETIE Olivia, PHILLIMORE Jenny
As tensions have risen around small boat crossings and asylum seekers in the UK, the hotels housing them have become regular targets of attacks by far-right, anti-immigration protesters.
Over the weekend, rioters threw projectiles at hotels and reportedly tried to set fire to one in what the (…)
, by MULHALL Joe
Earlier today Stephen Lennon (AKA Tommy Robinson) held a demonstration in central London attracting between 20-30,000 people.
In recent years Lennon has struggled to attract significant numbers to his demonstrations. Wracked by legal and personal problems he has spent much of his time abroad (…)
, by DENHAM Jim
In general the Morning Star and its political masters at the Communist Party of Britain (CPB), don’t much like Nigel Farage. They frequently point to his racism and a smorgasbord of other reactionary views and positions. Even when they actually agree with him (over the EU) they tend to avoid (…)
, by KELLAWAY Dave
Dave Kellaway examines the Labour programme in the King’s speech and how the left should respond
The State Opening of Parliament
The royal pomp and ceremony at the State Opening of Parliament and the delivery of the King’s Speech express a very real political truth. Capitalist management (…)
, by ROGERS Paul
Starmer’s stance on Gaza has already reduced support for Labour – and that will only worsen in the coming months
The Labour Party’s landslide general election victory on 4 July has been compared to the party’s previous wins under Tony Blair in 1997 and Clement Atlee in 1945. But Keir Starmer (…)
, by CONWAY Terry
There is a new government at Westminster. Rishi Sunak’s gamble of calling a snap election did not pay off.
But while Labour’s Sir Keir Starmer claims a landslide the reality is different if you look at votes cast. His left-wing predecessor Jeremy Corbyn, whom Starmer detests, motivated more (…)
, by RAO Rahul
The past struggles of brown and black immigrants have brought improvement in racial equality in the United Kingdom – but recent books make clear that British liberalism’s claims of substantive progress are overly optimistic.
On the face of it, Southasians in Britain have never had it this (…)
, par GABOR Daniela
Handing vital infrastructure to private investment companies will generate windfalls for investors and leave the rest of us worse off. We need a better plan
The Labour party has a plan for returning to power : it will get BlackRock to rebuild Britain. Its reasoning is straightforward. A (…)
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