British politics is in utter turmoil as a general election looms. We face either a Labour government, possibly as the biggest party with the support of other left parties, most notably the Scottish National Party, with a radical left agenda; or a reactionary Tory Government driven by racism, (...)
British politics have entered a profound crisis, characterised by an escalating hard right threat against working class communities in all their diversity. The growing menace of a hard-right Tory or Tory-Brexit Party government is paralleled by the threat – and increasing reality – of reactionary (...)
WikiLeaks founder’s custody will be extended after current prison terms comes to end.
Julian Assange will stay in prison after the custody period on his current jail term ends because of his “history of absconding”.
As home secretary, Sajid Javid signed an order in June allowing Assange’s (...)
Encrypted messages show the racist group was expelled from wider European alt-right for its embrace of dangerous ideologies
In a beer garden in central London last Tuesday the atmosphere was relaxed. But not for Mike. Every few minutes he would turn to scrutinise the people around him. When (...)
Rather than entering an arms race on policing with the Tories and accepting law and order demagoguery, Labour should lead a new conversation about crime in Britain.
In the name of tackling crime, Labour has in recent years been advocating a policy that would put ten thousand additional police (...)
Belfast shipyard Harland and Wolff once employed 35,000 people writes Barney Cassidy. Its workforce was the aristocracy of the city’s working class. They were heavily unionised and well paid by local standards. They were also enthusiastic participants in every major sectarian pogrom in 19th and (...)
A new report commissioned by the government uses anti-war activism as evidence that socialists in Britain pose an ’extremist’ threat.
In a worryingly-McCarthyite new government-funded paper people on the left, including members of the anti-war movement, have been labelled potential sympathisers (...)
The British Navy’s seizure of an Iranian oil tanker has sparked diplomatic crisis and a tit-for-tat action by Iran. Post-Brexit Britain wants to reassert itself as a global power — but it’s suffering from a serious case of imperial overreach.
July saw mounting tensions between Britain and Iran, (...)
Party emails supporters saying: ‘Boris Johnson knows it: there’s a general election brewing’
Labour and the grassroots campaign group Momentum are putting their activists on notice for a snap general election after Boris Johnson’s first full day as prime minister, though some of the party’s MPs (...)
Sajid Javid’s 18 July speech on extremism, which praised Nigel Farage, was a clear indicator of what is being prepared – either a Boris Johnson Tory government with Farage given a major role, or a Tory-Brexit Party coalition government, all depending on the electoral arithmetic. If and when Boris (...)
Phil Hearse writes: As a general election approaches, especially one which might lead to a Johnson or Johnson-Farage government, (and, less likely, a Corbyn government) the record of the last Labour government is bound to come up. As memories fade, rose-tinted spectacles can be deliberately (...)
James Farrar is the founder of Worker Info Exchange, an organization that campaigns for workers to be given access to data collected by their employers. Earlier this year, using the EU’s General Data Protection Regulations, James launched a landmark case against Uber in an attempt to force the (...)
Let’s start with some simpler questions. Why did Nigel Farage step down from Ukip, ostensibly in protest over its ’extremist’ direction? It was, surely, a successful brand. Why did he ask his loyalist Catherine Blaiklock to found and lead a new party, rather than doing it himself? Why did he (...)
Farage endorses far-right theories which have disturbing echoes of fascist propaganda in the 1930s.
What have Donald Trump, Nigel Farage and ‘Tommy Robinson’ got in common? Many things overlap in their ultra-right wing universe, but one of them is that they’ve all appeared on the madcap right (...)
With contributions from Rowan Williams and Green MP Caroline Lucas, the book is being given an ‘emergency’ release by Penguin
Former archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams and Green Party MP Caroline Lucas are among the contributors to a forthcoming handbook about how to become an Extinction (...)
With Brexit bogged down and the Tories in meltdown, Labour looks set to tip the European Parliament elections to the center-left for the first time in a generation. Another own goal for Theresa May.
Last week in Brussels, Theresa May spoke to European Union leaders for just over an hour, with (...)
Becky Crocker is a railway worker and activist in the RMT union, former chair of its Women’s Advisory Committee. Here she responds to some of the issues raised in the recent debates about RMT activist Eddie Dempsey’s remarks at a rally organised by “The Full Brexit”, and issues in the wider debate (...)
Since the financial crisis, a huge generational divide has opened up in politics, displacing class as predictor of voting behaviour. But Keir Milburn, author of Generation Left, argues that a left politics of the commons is well placed to bridge this divide.
Increasingly, the old and the young (...)
Britain: Forget the gloss and the gimmicks – feminism was forged in the struggle to escape the sweatshop
Looking for a way to celebrate International Women’s Day? Join a union. That might seem a bit abstract, but it’s not at all.
Every year International Women’s Day becomes pinker, glossier and (...)
Charities, lawyers and Labour warn against government rushing out legislation in England and Wales
Changes to mental capacity safeguards – intended to protect hundreds of thousands of vulnerable people – will hand care home managers and private hospitals far too much power, the government has (...)
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