Sanchez’s election ploy fails as far right make big gains
Dave Kellaway gives an initial response to the 10 November general election in the Spanish state.
Europe
Labour off to remarkable start
Alan Davies argues that the left should get behind Corbyn’s campaign to elect a radical Red-Green Labour government.
Ukraine, Peace, oligarchs and big power manoeuvres
Trump’s efforts to coerce Zelensky into helping him discredit Joe Biden reinforces the fact that the Ukrainian state depends on the USA to stay solvent and sufficiently armed to deter Russia from mounting a new military offensive against it.
Erdogan launches reign of terror to crush Rojava
Phil Hearse and Sarah Parker write that the people of Rojava and north Kurdistan today need international solidarity more than ever.
Speak out on Catalonia
On 14 October nine prominent Catalan political figures were sentenced to over 100 years in jail for organising a referendum on self determination on 1 October 2017. They are guilty of nothing more than organising a vote that was violently suppressed by the Spanish State.
Hold the referendum before an election
The danger of a general election first is that it could be so dominated by Brexit that there would be no guarantee that Labour’s radical manifesto would cut through because Brexit would have an even higher profile.
Trump’s ‘stab in the back’ to the Kurdish national movement
Gilbert Achcar analyses Turkey’s murderous invasion, and argues that the Kurdish movement be given the means to resist.
Trump green-lights Turkish invasion of NE Syria and the destruction of hope
Sarah Glynn, co-convener of Scottish Solidarity with Kurdistan, argues that the United States’ backing of a Turkish offensive into Syria must be opposed
The contradictions underlying Brexit and Scottish independence
Understanding the political forces, which the Left is up against, is essential, not only in the UK and wider world, but for us in Scotland, when we consider the future for Scottish independence.
