These are dangerous times, but the anti-Trump protests showed the potential power of those who champion social equality and inclusion, women’s rights and anti-racism.
The events of the past 10 days have spectacularly revealed key faultlines in British and world politics. In particular they have (...)
While it’s probably wrong to categorise Trump as a neo-fascist, he is the rallying symbol for the new nationalist hard right globally writes Andy Stowe. His visit to England and Scotland on the weekend of July 13thand 14th was an opportunity to gauge just how much he is loathed.
It was a test (...)
Official documents show the British government’s concern with declining post-colonial influence and obsession with trade and arms deals. UK Foreign Office encouraged police to repress Sikh protests against the Indian government. Most British documents relating to military cooperation before and (...)
Three things strike you when looking at videos and photos of the neo-fascist demonstration on June 9th calling for the release from prison of the Islamophobic criminal Tommy Robinson writes Andy Stowe.
The first is the numbers who turned out. 10 000 is the most frequent shared estimate. This (...)
Anti-choice campaigners lose high court challenge over protest-free buffer zone at clinic in Ealing
A council’s decision to ban anti-abortion protesters from gathering outside a London clinic has been upheld in the high court.
Campaigners lost a legal challenge to a move by Ealing council to create a 100-metre, protest-free “buffer zone” around the Marie Stopes clinic. The council was the first in the country to take such a decision in an attempt to shield women from demonstrators.
Mr Justice Turner (...)
A grassroots fightback is helping to win basic rights for couriers, cleaners and other workers on zero-hours contracts. And the IWGB is showing how unions can thrive again.
At eight o’clock on a recent June morning, outside the University of London’s art deco Senate House, in Bloomsbury, a Latin (...)
On 25 June the British parliament voted through a trade deal that threatens to lock us into the politics of austerity and high risk globalisation, whatever the cost and whoever comes to power in the future.
The Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) between Canada and the EU has (...)
For weeks, Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party has been the target of a defamatory campaign meant to undermine it, wrote Daniel Finn on April 9.
The dominant narrative in the British media about Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour Party, and antisemitism is false and defamatory. Labour does not have a (...)
UN special rapporteur on racism says ‘extreme views’ have gained ground in Britain since vote
Brexit has contributed to an environment of increased racial discrimination and intolerance, the UN special rapporteur on racism has said, as she identified a range of institutional prejudices that (...)
Holly Rigby speaks to Hilary Wainwright about her latest book, A New Politics from the Left, and its application for flourishing new social movements.
Was the book written in response to the current political moment of the Corbyn project, or have you had it in mind for a while?
The idea of a (...)
‘It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness’
Statement in response to the Leave vote.
Another Europe is Possible worked tirelessly over the past few months to forge a movement that could progress an alternative vision for Europe. Britain’s decision to leave the European Union opens a (...)
THE PROJECT OF A SOCIALIST EUROPE IS NOW URGENT AND TANGIBLE
Vote counting has now started. We will know the referendum result within a few hours. It has been a tough few weeks, intense, at times oddly interesting, and full of surprises for us in the Left specifically. We saw responses we had (...)
It’s not clear that a Leave vote would make our tasks on the Left any easier.
Tomorrow, the United Kingdom will hold a referendum on whether to remain a member of the European Union. While the reformist left, centered around Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour and the Green Party, are largely for staying in, (...)
Following the election and Cameron’s pledge to the right, there will be an in out referendum on Britain’s membership of the EU at least by the end of 2017, and possibly in 2016. This article will examine the role and character of the EU, the implications of the referendum itself, and consider how (...)
British referendums are strange, hybrid beasts. “We the people” are not formally sovereign. At least in theory, the votes of Her Majesty’s loyal subjects provide a second opinion, not a final decision, for the real source of ultimate legal authority: Parliament and the Queen. Referendums are not, (...)
A former Madrid slaughterhouse, renovated to show the awe-inspiring beauty of its architectural design, was last weekend’s venue for the rebuilding of Europe. Two weeks after former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis told the EU to ‘democratise or disintegrate’, Spain played host to this (...)
In 1976 the Lucas Aerospace Combine Shop Stewards Committee produced an Alternative Corporate Plan for Lucas Aerospace that advocated the production of social useful products . This was in response to management announcing the need to cut jobs. The Combine was a representative body of staff and (...)
Britain is a capitalist country operating within the EU. If Britain decides to withdraw from the EU it will still be a capitalist country. The principle aim of the left is to transform Britain from capitalism to socialism. This may seem a moot point but there is a point to this moot point. For (...)
Voters who want an isolationist Britain will be spoiled for choice in the European elections on June 4th. On the far right, the BNP and UKIP both demand an independent Britain. Left of centre parties that want British withdrawal include Arthur Scargill’s Socialist Labour Parry, and the NO2EU Yes (...)
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