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Lashing together a life raft: Covid-19 strategies for the left
Reflecting on two years of Covid-19 and the challenges the British left will have to adapt to and confront
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UK admits activists “forced” Elbit to sell factory
A British government prosecutor admitted in court this week that Palestine Action campaigners “forced the closure” of a factory owned by an Israeli weapons firm earlier this year
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Extinction Rebellion Vows to Fill the Streets in Response to UK’s New Protest Limits
"It is foolish to think that announcing new curbs in the Queen's Speech will stop people taking to the streets to demand their government act to ensure a safe future."
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Across 12 years, the Conservatives have ruined countless lives and destroyed our social fabric. Why would anyone vote for them?
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Is Irish Reunification on the Horizon?
Sinn Féin Wins Historic Victory in Northern Ireland Election
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England’s punitive exam system is only good at one thing: preserving privilege
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Political education is absent from our current system. The left should be providing alternative means of obtaining it
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Donziger: A Tale For Our Times 79
We are all, in a sense, the prisoners of corporations which dictate the terms on which we live
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Chevron Profits Quadruple and Exxon’s Double Amid Ukraine Crisis
"Big Oil is intentionally profiteering off the war in Ukraine. We need a Big Oil windfall profits tax."
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Dangerous ambiguity: UK policy towards Ukraine
British ministers seem to be making policy towards Russia’s attack on Ukraine on the hoof, and risk heightening the prospect of a war of attrition with no end in sight
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It’s up to all of us to build and support movements that can chart another course for peace, security and justice for all
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A UK War Resister Reflects On Troubled State of “Veteranhood”
A look at Joe Glenton’s new book, Veteranhood: Hope and Rage in British Ex-Military Life (Repeater Books)
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Israel’s fortress state is the model for the UK’s new asylum policy
In copying an Israeli scheme to ship refugees to Rwanda, Boris Johnson's government has turned to the world leader in keeping out ‘undesirables’
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To the Home Office We Go: The Extradition of Julian Assange
The prospect of enlivening extraterritorial jurisdiction to target journalism and the publication of national security information, is graver than ever
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Our Priority on Ukraine Should Be Saving Lives, Not Punishing Russia
The phrase “all options are on the table” is normal in what passes for statecraft in the U.S. and U.K. — all in direct violation of the UN Charter
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‘No Choice But to Disrupt’: Climate Activists Block 4 London Bridges
"Rebels are swarming across London, part of a global wave of civil disobedience as people wake up to the fact that our leaders are failing to tackle the #ClimateCrisis"
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Interview on class, veteranhood, and the radical potential for organizing within Britain's armed forces
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Universities, financialisation and the fightback at Goldsmiths
As higher education institutions are pitted against each other, students, staff and activists must come together to resist a costly race to the bottom
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‘Just Stop Oil’: Climate Activists Block 10 Terminals Across UK
"If we continue with fossil fuels, then we're... not gonna have a planet that we can live on," said one protestor who locked himself to an oil tanker
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An interview with United Tech and Allied Workers
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We won’t defend ourselves from the global food crisis by destroying what remains of our wildlife
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P&O fired 800 workers without notice over Zoom to replace them with agency staff – it is one of the most disgraceful acts in modern British industrial history
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Extradition of Assange Would Set a Dangerous Precedent
The Trump administration is seeking extradition of WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, to the United States for trial on charges carrying 175 years in prison
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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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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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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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Brexit: Capitalism’s Civil War
“Farage and his ilk are just tools of something much bigger & much deeper than they are”
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I Lost 39 Members of My Family in the Holocaust, Jeremy Corbyn is No Antisemite
“As the son of a holocaust survivor I find the use of antisemitism to fight political battles hard to stomach”
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Interview on the failures of the conservative party in dealing with the coronavirus crisis, the need of the EU to unify or disintegrate and the future of the left in Europe
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'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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March for the Alternative – Peoples Assemblies
Mark Barrett shares his assessment of the massive anti-cuts “March...
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March for the Alternative – UK Uncut
Liam Davies shares his assessment of the massive anti-cuts “March...
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March for the Alternative – SWP
Jonny Jones shares his assessment of the massive anti-cuts “March for...
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March for the Alternative – Coalition of Resistance
Andrew Burgin shares his assessment of the massive anti-cuts “March...
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Alex Callinicos shares his assessment of the massive anti-cuts “March for...
Blogs
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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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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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Work is not a social policy: challenging the coalition gov’s ‘welfare reforms’
“Never again will work be the wrong financial choice. Never...
Books
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The Activists Handbook: A Step by Step Guide to Participatory Democracy
Table of Contents Introduction 1: Activism, advocacy and the practice...
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Making of the English Working Class
"Thompson’s book has been called controversial, but perhaps only because...
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Century of Women: The History of Women in Britain and the United States in the Twentieth Century
As its title suggests, Sheila Rowbotham’s A Century of Women:...
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An autobiographical account of a young muslim man in London...
