Johnson gone—but Tories hang on
By Dave Stockton BORIS JOHNSON has resigned as leader of the Conservative Party, but not yet as prime minister. The […]
Stagflation crisis looms, and we must make the rich pay
It will be up to the rank and file to lead the resistance.
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Omicron: Boris Johnson is choosing profits over public health, again
By Dave Stockton Britain is experiencing yet another damaging outburst of coronavirus, this time the Omicron variant. Once again, leaving
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Overseas Operations Bill: Starmer’s march to the right hits double-time
Labour abstains on bill that decriminalises torture.
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“Operation Moonshot” is about private profit not public health
The Tories are using the pandemic to oursource to the private sector
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The hypocrisy of the “rule of six”
Protecting the rights of capitalists at the cost of workers’ lives
Double bluff or full throttle towards the Brexit precipice?
What happened to the “oven ready” Brexit?
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Land of hope and glory?
The ‘traditions’ and ‘culture’ that Boris Johnson lauds are inextricably bound up with Britain’s pioneering role as slave-trader and coloniser.
End the senseless slaughter, send aid not warships to migrants in the Channel!
Open the borders to refugees, economic migrants, asylum seekers.
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Tories turn on child refugees
Boris Johnson’s Tory government published legislation in December announcing their intention to scrap the Vulnerable Children’s Resettlement Scheme (VCRS). This would enshrine in law the Tories’ hostility to child refugees
The Popular Front: a warning from history
Whatever name they go by, popular fronts inevitable subordinate the interests of the workers to the need to maintain the alliance with the bosses
Now finish off Boris
WITH THE COMMONS VOTE TO TAKE CONTROL of its agenda and the passage of a Bill preventing No Deal, the constitutional coup of Boris Johnson and his sinister advisor Dominic Cummings has been thwarted – for now. If the Bill becomes an act of parliament and is transmitted as a request for delay until January then a general election becomes a near certainty.
Boris Johnson’s war cabinet prepares for hard Brexit
On Thursday night, Britain’s new prime minister wielded the knife and unveiled his new war cabinet – elevating the extreme fringe of the Tory parliamentary party to the heart of government.
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Britain’s New Prime Minister: Where Next?
Like a storm which has long been forecasted finally breaking, a Boris Johnson Prime Ministership is now upon us. A press that regularly libels life-long antiracist Jeremy Corbyn as an antisemite is chary of pinning labels on Johnson as racist, misogynist, homophobe and islamophobe – labels he richly deserves.