Glasgow killing raises major questions about treatment of asylum seekers
In a major event in Scotland, one person was killed by armed police in a Glasgow hotel used to accommodate asylum seekers, reports Mike Picken. The call ‘not to [...]
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If They Come In the Morning
The Labour Party’s antisemitism witchhunt has just claimed its highest profile victim, with the sacking of Rebecca Long-Bailey from Starmer’s shadow cabinet for the crime [...]
Nursing Students in revolt over Tory Minister’s statement
The graduating students have been caught in the middle of a Tory U-turn over nursing bursaries that has cost them each individually tens of thousands of pounds.
Walk at a steady pace towards machine guns urges Johnson as 65,000 die
Johnson and his government are sitting atop a mountain of at least 65,000 corpses.
What I got from “More than a Left Foot” and why you should buy it
I learned so much and must thoroughly recommend this book. It is a book about where our politics come from and the experiences of an activist who gently tells his life story which is backed up with interesting sociology.
Glasgow Anti-Racists defiant against Far-Right attacks
The demonstration was a great success in reasserting solidarity with Black Lives Matter and challenging the far-right backlash for control of Britain’s streets and squares. A strong, energetic and pluralistic anti-racist movement needs to be built in the days and weeks ahead.
More than a Left Foot
There are three chapters that explain clearly and in some detail the theoretical debates about disablement in capitalist society. The three periods in his life are woven together with the red thread of this political theory – he really does relate the political to the personal.
Belgium’s colonial crimes in the Congo: a duty to remember
Eric Toussaint writes that the Belgian state certainly has no monopoly on brutality, but it is fundamental that we do not forget, and that we restore the historic truth.
Make Black Lives Matter
The surest way of reducing police violence is to reduce the power of the police, by cutting budgets and the number of officers. But we are not abandoning our communities to violence. We don’t want to just close police departments. We want to make them obsolete.
‘Searching for Socialism’ – a review
Tony Richardson reviews “Searching for Socialism, The Project of the Labour New Left from Benn to Corbyn”, by Colin Leys and Leo Panitch
