With just three days to go and the contest tightening, the election remains too close to call, writes Alan Davies. Everything remains to be played for. Whilst the polls are still predicting a Tory majority they are highly dubious. In 2017 they were still predicting a Tory landslide in the days (...)
In a previous article [see below] Mike Picken put forward an analysis of the General Election of 12 December in Scotland. In this article, he examines the positions of Scotland’s largest left-wing organisation on the choices in that election.
Against the background of a generally more left and (...)
The general election in Great Britain on 12 December will be the most important one in 40 years. Back in 1979, Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister, introducing neoliberal policies with a wave of privatisations and the breakup of the welfare state.
Despite heroic struggles in the 1980s, (...)
Labour’s 2019 election manifesto could very well be the set of ideas that wins the election writes Andy Stowe.
One of the things that tells you it’s very different from every manifesto of the last forty years, apart from Labour’s last one, is that it talks about abolishing Universal Credit, the (...)
We will have a general election this year after all. This morning Labour came out in favour of going back to the people, with Jeremy Corbyn in an ebullient mood as he announced to the BBC that, while “Labour loves a debate, this is the end of the debate”. Amassed behind him was a similarly (...)
XR must realise its lack of diversity, middle-class image and glamorisation of arrest puts young black and brown people off
Some Extinction Rebellion activists present climate warming as a disaster waiting to happen. But for my cousins in the global south, the dystopian future has already (...)
To date articles in Conter addressing Brexit have concentrated more on the neo-liberal opposition, and those on the Left perceived to be tail-ending this section of the British ruling class, writes Allan Armstrong of the Radical Independence Campaign . [[This article by Allan Armstrong of the (...)
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 (...)
The prime minister has become a pin-up for thuggish extremists and he doesn’t care about the consequences
For the first time in our history, we have a prime minister whom the far right regard as their leader. Last Saturday, far-right thugs at a demonstration in Westminster lunged at remainer (...)
Outlet in Oxford industrial park, including on-site cafe, is aimed at turning perceptions on their head
Oxfam is to open its first superstore on the outskirts of Oxford in an experiment aimed at turning perceptions of charity shopping as outdated on their head.
On the edge of a sprawling (...)
Forty years after Thatcher told us that the market and privatisation would make the consumer king and queen, her big lie is exposed for all to see. Instead of being a nation of home owners we are more and more at the mercy of an overpriced and inadequately regulated private rented sector. We (...)
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 (...)
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