Ahead of the Your Party conference (29-30 November), we spoke to a few supportive local groups about how things have been going and their hopes for conference and beyond. Watch this space for more #YourPartyLocal articles in the coming days. Councillor Pete Lowe, was leader of the Labour g...
Ahead of the Your Party conference next weekend, the establishment media obviously wants to intensify division as much as possible. One Times article, for example, said Green Party leader Zack Polanski was calling on Zarah Sultana to ‘defect’ (a word it seemingly put in Polanski’s mouth). ...
I covered the Leeds ‘Lift the Ban’ protest on 18 November. And it was a highly disturbing event I’ll never forget – not least because of the conduct of the cops. The surreal event – marked by actions of the cops Anyone witnessing the quiet civility of the people holding up signs saying “I ...
The long-running and highly problematic Undercover Policing Inquiry had a busier public gallery than usual, as Stephen Lawrence’s mother Doreen Lawrence described police officers’ systematic abuse and racism. As a statement on behalf of Lawrence’s father Neville previously summed up perfec...
The Atlas Network is a highly influential force that billionaires use behind the scenes to advance their class war against the rest of us. It backs extreme right-wing groups campaigning globally for “property rights, limited government, and free markets.” And a key target for it right now ...
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan just dodged a wealth tax question from Green Party leader Zack Polanski, but agreed that the two-child benefit cap is wrong. At London’s Mayor’s Question Time on 20 November, Polanski asked Khan to clarify his position on the two-child benefit cap. And while Khan...
Reform UK just set up a tent in my town centre. So I went along to ask some important questions. But the answers showed the party only cares about distractions, not about actually solving Britain’s problems. Thatcherism gave us the cost-of-living crisis. But Reform UK says… let’s have more...
The BBC‘s anti-Palestinian propaganda during Israel’s genocide in Gaza has been appalling — one telling example came when it dropped a piece about British and Palestinian children sharing poetry ‘for impartiality’ reasons. The BBC Gaza coverage sinks to a new low. We spoke to the project c...
The University of Glasgow (UoG) has been thoroughly complicit in Israel’s genocide in Palestine. But amid its stubborn refusal to change, student resistance has been unbreakable. And recent ‘not guilty’ verdict for protesters who took action earlier in the year may now embolden others to d...
Reform UK exists to serve its super-rich donors. And it does that partly by attacking policies that seek to tackle the global climate crisis. But unfortunately for the silver–spoon hate salesmen at Reform, a new poll clearly shows most people in Britain oppose their anti-climate agenda. Re...