Latest UK

• Rebellion: Heathrow Victory – We did it

  This afternoon, the Court ruled against the expansion of Heathrow airport, effectively grinding the plans to build a third runway to a halt
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  Cook: How we stay blind to the story of power

  Understanding power and overcoming it through that understanding is the only path to liberation we can take as individuals, as societies, and as a species
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  Pilger: Julian Assange Must Be Freed, Not Betrayed

  When we speak about dictatorships, we call this brainwashing: the conquest of minds. It is a truth we rarely apply to our own societies, regardless of the trail of blood that leads back to us and which never dries
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  Cockburn: Sinn Fein’s election victory is Ireland’s ‘Brexit moment’

  “People wanted to kick the government and Sinn Fein provided the shoe to do the kicking”
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  Hallinan: Irish Elections & Unification

  Prospects for unification will have less to do with ancient hatreds than with health care, schools, housing, and jobs.
• Finn: Ireland’s Left Turn

  Last Saturday, Ireland bucked the European trend as its voters turned sharply left. Sinn Féin was the main beneficiary, but the party has some big choices to make in the months ahead if it’s going to capitalize on this breakthrough
• Carroll: Sinn Féin begins efforts to form leftwing coalition in Ireland

  Mary Lou McDonald will talk to Greens and others but pact with Fianna Fáil is also possible
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  Cook: Antisemitism threats will keep destroying the UK Labour party

  The imminent departure of Jeremy Corbyn as leader will not end the damage that has been done to Labour by such claims
• Vigo: How Privilege and Woke Politics are Destroying the Left

  We need to change our tactics and how we interact in the world politically and this change must begin with having good faith discussions that are not steeped in wokeism or privilege games
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  Wolff: Capitalism’s Political Servants: Trump and Johnson

  For the last half-century, US and UK capitalisms led the way in undoing the parallel legacies of the New Deal and Europe’s social democracies
• Taft: Irish Left Set to Win General Election, But Still Shut Out of Governing?

  For the first time in 100 years neither of Ireland's two historically dominant parties will win a plurality of the vote, providing an opening to Sinn Fein and other left parties. What made this possible?
• Fly: Top Four Ways to abolish the Gasoline Car and Go Electric in 15 Years

  In 2019, only 1.6% of new passenger vehicles sold were electric vehicles, but they will need to form the majority of sales from 2035. So how can the next decade and a half set Britain on track for zero-carbon car travel?
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  Feffer: Goodbye to All That: The UK after Brexit

  Brexit could see the UK eventually lose Scotland, Northern Ireland, and a great deal of its prosperity
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  Cook: The Holocaust, the BBC and antisemitism smears

  The connecting thread of that story is not antisemitism. It is white European racism. And the fact that Israel and its supporters have signed up as cheerleaders for that kind of racism makes it no less white and no less racist
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  Cockburn: We live in a disintegrating world

  And that only makes it a more dangerous place
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  Grossman: The UK and the U.S.: Some Nasty Parallels?

  I predict that they will attack Bernie just as maliciously and falsely as Jeremy, using his support for Palestinian rights to label him by that weird epithet , “self-hating Jew”
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  Monbiot: If defending life on Earth is extremist, we must own that label

  Anyone seeking to defend life on Earth is now labelled an extremist. Yet the real extremists are those in power
• Bradbury: XR: the case for deliberative democracy

  Climate Assembly UK begins this weekend. It's a good start, but does not meet XR's third demand for a Government-commissioned Citizens’ Assembly
• Paoluzzi: Stop celebrating neoliberal academia: boycott your graduation

  Graduation ceremonies at UK universities are a clear representation of their financialized mentality, valuing profit over quality education
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  Monbiot: Those Who Trespass Against Us

  A proposed new law would make us strangers in our own nation, by criminalising trespass