Analysing a disastrous result
This was not only a devastating defeat for the left and progressive forces, but a huge victory for English nationalism.
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Weaponisation of antisemitism continues
While the media have focussed obsessively on this almost non-existent “Labour antisemitism”, relatively little attention has been paid to the growing number of anti-Jewish attacks, which are part of a rise in all forms of racism across the world.
Must Labour move right to secure its working-class base?
Phil Hearse argues that the Blairite Right and Lexit Left are drawing all the wrong conclusions from the general election.
The Lexit road to English patriotism
The imperial legacy has been the great weakness of the English working class, and as the Morning Star demonstrates with its alarming enthusiasm for English patriotism, also for its labour movement.
British Conservative Party tacks right
Ian Parker looks at the shape of the Tory Party as a reflection of quasi-fascist ideological ideas now present in British political life.
Actually, it is racist
One conclusion being drawn from Labour’s defeat is that the party under Corbyn was insufficiently concerned about migration, English nationalism and the concerns [...]
Britain: 2019 election analysis – A victory for the Far Right. A crisis for the Left
Neil Faulkner and Phil Hearse analyse the general election defeat and draw lessons for the battles ahead.
A disastrous election result: defend the gains of Corbynism.
On an emotional level it feels like a death in the family writes Andy Stowe. The Tory victory was, above all else, a triumph for a reactionary project of the hard right that [...]
The choice: Labour hope or Tory Brexit racism
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.
Post- Truth election?
But all of these lies and distortions pale into insignificance in the shade of the One Big Lie that the Tories and their cronies are relying on – the lie about supposed “Labour antisemitism”. This lie, which is intended to intimidate and dishearten Labour supporters and canvassers as well as to mislead voters, has been trotted out almost daily during the campaign.
