The Revolt against Trump Begins at Home
Labour Campaign Against Prevent Why the Labour Campaign Against Prevent must be the cornerstone to combating the Trump effect in Britain The weeks since Donald Trump’s inauguration have already...
View ArticlePrevent – Time for a major review and fundamental rethink
By Diane Abbott MP Increasingly, the evidence is suggesting that the Government’s Prevent Strategy – aimed at countering radicalisation and making us safer – doesn’t work on either count. In recent...
View ArticleDiane Abbott calls for ‘major review’ and ‘fundamental rethink’ of Prevent...
Yesterday evening Labour Home Secretary Diane Abbott called for a ‘major review’ and ‘fundamental rethink’ of the governments Prevent strategy. Abbott spoke at a meeting of the Students Not Suspects...
View ArticleRemembering Mohammed Ali: boxer, philosopher and poet
Ann Pettifor remembers Mohammed Ali with whom she worked in the Jubilee 2000 campaign for cancellation of third world debt Mohammed Ali – ‘The Greatest’ – died this weekend, at the age of 74. With his...
View ArticleWhy Andy Burnham should oppose the snoopers charter come what May does
Today, the Guardian reports that “Labour has edged closer to supporting the ‘snooper’s charter’“, referring to the Investigatory Powers Bill carried forward from the last session of Parliament. Andy...
View ArticleTaxation – challenging everyday libertarianism
In his Left Futures article on the 7th April, Intense Relaxation, David Osland took John McTernan to task for advocating tax avoidance as a ‘basic British freedom’ and for making reference to the...
View ArticleLabour MPs abstain on snoopers’ charter. Straight talking, honest politics?
Yesterday in the vote on the second reading of the Investigatory Powers Bill (aka the snoopers charter), there were just two Labour votes against. All credit to Dennis Skinner and David Winnick who...
View ArticleRahman wins right for judicial review on “undue spiritual influence”
Back in August 2014, the Times ran a screaming headline saying Muslims told to ‘vote for mayor or be damned’. The quote marks in the headline might have led a reader to assume that the Times were...
View ArticleNATO’s disastrous legacy in Libya
There is almost an air of desperation in the recent unanimous adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 2259 that seeks to bring together a critical mass of Libyan factions and actors to support a...
View ArticleLabour Party will boycott G4S security services over repression of Palestinians
It has emerged that the Labour Party decided at its national executive meeting on Tuesday to boycott the private security company, G4S, that has provided its conference security in recent years...
View ArticleRemembering Mohammed Ali: boxer, philosopher and poet
Ann Pettifor remembers Mohammed Ali with whom she worked in the Jubilee 2000 campaign for cancellation of third world debt Mohammed Ali – ‘The Greatest’ – died this weekend, at the age of 74. With his...
View ArticleWhy Andy Burnham should oppose the snoopers charter come what May does
Today, the Guardian reports that “Labour has edged closer to supporting the ‘snooper’s charter’“, referring to the Investigatory Powers Bill carried forward from the last session of Parliament. Andy...
View ArticleTaxation – challenging everyday libertarianism
In his Left Futures article on the 7th April, Intense Relaxation, David Osland took John McTernan to task for advocating tax avoidance as a ‘basic British freedom’ and for making reference to the...
View ArticleLabour MPs abstain on snoopers’ charter. Straight talking, honest politics?
Yesterday in the vote on the second reading of the Investigatory Powers Bill (aka the snoopers charter), there were just two Labour votes against. All credit to Dennis Skinner and David Winnick who...
View ArticleRahman wins right for judicial review on “undue spiritual influence”
Back in August 2014, the Times ran a screaming headline saying Muslims told to ‘vote for mayor or be damned’. The quote marks in the headline might have led a reader to assume that the Times were...
View ArticleNATO’s disastrous legacy in Libya
There is almost an air of desperation in the recent unanimous adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 2259 that seeks to bring together a critical mass of Libyan factions and actors to support a...
View ArticleLabour Party will boycott G4S security services over repression of Palestinians
It has emerged that the Labour Party decided at its national executive meeting on Tuesday to boycott the private security company, G4S, that has provided its conference security in recent years...
View ArticleBritain First: cynical Islamophobia on the telly
A documentary about Britain’s First virtual fascist group, Britain First? Why ever not. With UKIP commanding four million votes at the general election, the press stuffed with xenophobic bullshit as...
View ArticleCorbyn’s Labour will stop the Tories abusing liberty, removing rights and...
An effective, credible and principled opposition has never been needed more. The Cameron Government have resumed their assault on working people in the Commons this week. The Trade Union Bill seeks to...
View ArticleHypocrisy of the Tory “workers’ party”: making it impossible to strike
Strike action, fox hunting, the BBC, Europe, migrant benefits – never underestimate the Tory capacity to identify things that aren’t problems and then attack them. The number of days lost to strike...
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