Boris Johnson
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 artful dodger has managed to stay in No.10 Downing Street, drawing his annual salary of £164,080, until 5 September. The 50+ MPs who quit are also all entitled to three months’ salary, costing the taxpayer […]
Stagflation crisis looms, and we must make the rich pay
It will be up to the rank and file to lead the resistance.
Tory crisis: An opportunity for resistance
The Tory crisis won't last forever.
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 aside its apparent origin in South Africa, the UK is already leading the way in the speed of transmission. As a result France and Germany have imposed restrictions on travellers from the UK. Omicron cases […]
Brexit talks hang in the balance
Deal or no deal, the working class loses.
Shut down schools and colleges now
We need to prepare to take action.
Eat nowt to help out: Why capitalism is starving our kids
The fight against Tory values.
Overseas Operations Bill: Starmer’s march to the right hits double-time
Labour abstains on bill that decriminalises torture.
“Operation Moonshot” is about private profit not public health
The Tories are using the pandemic to oursource to the private sector
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?
From hero to zero: how the UK has shown gratitude to their most essential workers during the pandemic
NHS workers campaign for a pay rise.
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.
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.
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.
