“We agreed that we do not agree.” That about sums up the outcome of the G20 summit. Not surprisingly, Donald Trump did not change his mind on the Paris Climate Change Agreement of 2015 and the US will not re-join it. The rest of the G20 want to stick to it, at least in principle. […]
“We agreed that we do not agree.” That about sums up the outcome of the G20 summit.
The Irish state’s attempt to criminalise seven water charges protesters has failed, though charges against other water protesters remain.
The recent G20 summit turned into a public relations disaster for its host Angela Merkel, after a violent police operation to pacify the streets of Hamburg stole the spotlight. The city’s Social-Democratic Interior Minister, continuing a 100 year old tradition of trigger-happy social democratic police chiefs, boasted the summit would be a “showcase for modern […]
The recent G20 summit turned into a public relations disaster for its host Angela Merkel, after a violent police operation to pacify the streets of Hamburg stole the spotlight.
A sticker for the G20 Protest in Hamburg says Überall Polizei, nirgendwo Gerechtigkeit – ‘Police everywhere, Justice nowhere’.
Download the pdf The general election was a disaster for the Tories. Theresa May had to bribe the DUP £1 billion to join her coalition of chaos.
WITH 32 PER CENT of the votes in the first round of France’s parliamentary elections, Emmanuel Macron’s party, La République en Marche
DONALD TRUMP’S first trip abroad as President saw him launch radical changes in US foreign policy from those pursued by his predecessor
PRESIDENT DONALD Trump’s 20 May visit to Saudi Arabia, for a summit of the six Gulf Arab states and 49 other Arab and Muslim-majority countries
Simon Hannah compares Tony Benn’s 1983 and Jeremy Corbyn’s 2017 contributions
THE UNDERFUNDING of childcare programmes, the privatisation of secondary education
A resident reports on protests
THE AFTERMATH of the Grenfell fire exposes the government’s callous contempt for the lives and wellbeing of ordinary people.
L.A., from South London explains how members took their confidence into winning campaigns in marginal seats
A Kensington CLP member explains how victory has been tempered by catastrophe of Grenfell Tower fire
THE RETURN of two party politics in England was mirrored to a more limited extent in Scotland, with both Labour and the Tories
POLITICAL EVENTS in Northern Ireland are generally given scant coverage in the popular British press or broadcast media.
THE JUNE election result proved an unexpected disaster for the “winner” and a triumph for the “loser”.
The situation is fraught with pain and anger and pregnant with opportunity. This is more than a Tory electoral meltdown – in the terrible aftermath of Grenfell, the Tories have lost the consent of the people and cannot rule.
A massive turnout of young and working class voters has inflicted a shock defeat on the Tories
Seven people were killed and dozens more injured in the terrorist attack that targeted ordinary people enjoying Saturday evening around London Bridge and Borough Market.
By KD Tait The Tories called a snap election, despite having three and a half years with a working majority, because they know a deeper stage of this crisis is on the way. They know that in these years the negotiations to leave the European union and the effects of a hard Brexit, will generate […]
For two months, the right opposition in Venezuela has been mobilising against the Maduro government. It no longer limits itself to peaceful mass demonstrations, but tries to occupy government institutions, or even army bases on the border with Colombia, by force.
IN THE US, a president’s first 100 days in office is always a test of the change in direction, if any, from one administration to the next. That’s especially true this year, with the Republican sweep of both houses of the US Congress as well as the Presidency, plus holding on to most of the […]
In the week or so between the leaking of Labour’s Manifesto and the Manchester terrorist attack, Labour began to close the gap in the opinion polls.
DURING THE weeks between the first and second round of the French presidential elections, some on the French left called for a vote for Emmanuel Macron to stop Marine Le Pen of the Front National (FN) winning.
THE TORY MANIFESTO, Forward Together, is a smoke and mirrors exercise. Journalists who are easily fooled or, more commonly, out to fool others, have claimed May is stealing Labour’s clothes.
The latest Tory and media attack on Jeremy Corbyn comes at a time when the polls are showing a Labour revival. That is, they need to portray the Labour leader as a Sinn Fein/IRA supporter
At least 22 people, including young children, have been killed and 59 injured in a suicide bombing