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Contributors: Flawed reporting on antisemitism claims against the Labour party
Noam Chomsky, Yanis Varoufakis, Ken Loach, Brian Eno, Des Freedman, Justin Schlosberg and 21 others write about a recent report by the Media Reform Coalition
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Collord: Why Labour is right to back a 2030 target for decarbonising the economy
In the face of an existential threat, the only "credible" target is one that shows what must be done to avert disaster
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Silverman: Report on British Labour Party Conference
It shouldn’t surprise many of us to learn that the recent Labour Party conference was nothing remotely like the press and media reports
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Monbiot: Our Once and Future World
Let’s bring back Britain’s missing rainforests, and create national parks worthy of the name
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Bragg: What Ruling Against Johnson Means for Brexit
The U.K. Parliament has reconvened after the country’s Supreme Court...
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Gowan: Labour Wants to Free Us From the Market
The Labour Party announced that in the next election, it will fight for Universal Basic Services, making public services free at the point of use and universally accessible
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Castillo: Patients’ rights have no borders
Why US nurses have joined the fight against NHS privatization
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Berry: The radical potential of the Corbyn project
What Labour needs to do to avoid the fate of Syriza in Greece
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Surin: An Excellent Study Of The Manufactured Labour “Antisemitism Crisis”
I’ve just finished reading the uncorrected proof copy an excellent...
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Neoliberalism has stalled, so the fanatics in government are using Brexit to revive it
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Saltmarsh: Make public transport free
It's time for radical proposals to rebuild Britain's social fabric and combat the climate crisis. Here's one: make public transport free
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Dikerdem: Take part in building a people’s manifesto for the movement
Winning elections is not enough. To transform society we need to involve the people in policy making
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Corbyn: Jeremy Corbyn’s speech to TUC Congress 2019
In the next few weeks the establishment will come after us with all they’ve got, because they know we’re not afraid to take them on
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Coles: Jeremy Corbyn: Electoral “Chicken” or Political Mastermind?
It’s all too easy to think that Corbyn is running scared of a general election, but the risky strategy of waiting might just pay off
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Castillo: Patients’ rights have no borders
As a US-friendly no-deal Brexit inches closer, the executive director of National Nurses United explains why US nurses have joined the fight against NHS privatisation
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Cook: Brexit reveals Jeremy Corbyn to be the true moderate
Brexit has brought into sharp focus, at least for those prepared to look, the fanaticism that dominates almost the entire British political class
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Cockburn: Mugabe’s rule led us to dismiss nationalism, but that was a mistake
Many on the left and centre of politics who today lament the rise of right-wing nationalist, populist leaders opened the door to them by dismissing nationalism
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(Dedicated to Professor Joseph Wiesenfarth) When Mister Johnson entered...
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The Further Failure of Right Wing Populism
ZMag UK
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Pilger: The Assange Arrest is a Warning from History
The glimpse of Julian Assange being dragged from the Ecuadorean embassy in London is an emblem of the times. Might against right. Muscle against the law. Indecency against courage
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Meehan: Living it Large—Life on Benefits
A society that allows many, many people to live on less than £100 per week while a privileged few get by on over £100,000 is surely a great place to live
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The Manchester atrocity lifts the rock of British foreign policy to reveal its Faustian alliance with extreme Islam, especially the sect known as Wahhabism or Salafism, whose principal custodian and banker is the oil kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Britain’s biggest weapons customer.
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Andreou: The Scottish Independence Vote: A Significant Legacy
With an unprecedented voter turnout of 85 percent and a political mobilization that shook the foundations of the United Kingdom, much was accomplished...
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News: War, Prisons, and Torture in the U.S. & UK
Richard Haley is based in Edinburgh, Scotland and has been...
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Glazebrook: Collusion: The Untold Story of British Violence and Murder
On July 8, 1981, on the Falls Road in Belfast,...
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Gupta: Better Living through Poverty
From "Survivor’s" remote jungles to "Big Brother’s" households under lockdown,...
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Simanowitz: Young, Gifted, and Blacklisted
Vigil in London on September 7 for the Saharawi "Oxford...
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Pettifor: Generating Good Jobs
'Massive investment in the economy to generate good jobs is entirely affordable. A Corbyn government should have the confidence to do it.'
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On 8 March 2018 women across the world are going on strike. This is a call to action for women in the UK to join the strike. We will refuse to work. We will be on the streets. We will shut things down and disrupt business as usual
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Sandberg: Learning from Corbyn
Former Sanders Campaign Digital Organizing Director Claire Sandberg speaks to...
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Barlow: UK Election Polls Tighten
Britain's June 8 general election race is tightening between Labour and Tories and how the mainstream British media is losing credibility in the process
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Corbyn: This Election Is About You
It's about what we can achieve together
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Barlow: Corbyn’s New Labour Manifesto
Jeremy Corbyn's new "For the Many, Not the Few" manifesto puts sweeping progressive change on the table, much to the chagrin of the British political and media establishment
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Loach: In conversation with Jeremy Corbyn
These stories show why Labour must transform and rebuild Britain so that no one and no community is left behind
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Excerpt on foreign policy from Jeremy Corbyn's address to the 2016 Labour Party Conference on September 28, 2016 in Liverpool, England
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Panitch: Corbyn and Sanders Reigniting Democratic Socialism
Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn are laying the groundwork for economic democracy and a breakthrough into socialism
UK Blogs
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Tripathi: Assange, Pinochet and Diplomatic Double Dealing
CounterPunch, August 24-26, 2012 A decade ago, the British...
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: Don’t say prayers in public, Jesus said so.
Last week the National Secular Society and an ex-councillor won...
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Kearns: What does it mean to say rap music causes riots?
(originally posted at: http://towardtheunknownregion.blogspot.com/2011/08/rap-music-and-riots.html) I couldn't resist looking briefly at...
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Kearns: Work is not a social policy: challenging the coalition gov’s ‘welfare reforms’
“Never again will work be the wrong financial choice. Never...
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Sinclair: Myth vs Reality: British Troops “did not die in vain” in Sangin, Afghanistan
As British forces handed over control of Sangin, Afghanistan to...
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“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of...
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Kearns: The “middle class mob”: press coverage of Saturday’s UK Uncut action
Discourses around protests develop pretty quickly such that it's tricky...
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H: The PPS-UK anti-cuts leaflet and the problem of passive dissent
In 2003 over a million marched against war. But a...