The Campaign Against the Arms Trade (CAAT) has published a new report, A Shameful Relationship: UK Complicity in Saudi State Violence by David Wearing. It exposes how the UK’s supply of weapons to Saudi Arabia for its devastating bombing of Yemen systematically violates international law. UK-made aircraft, bombs and missiles have been used in the bombing and […]
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Sanders must keep up his Momentum until the Democratic Party is won for Socialism
Apr 25th, 2016 by Jon Lansman.Following the New York primary, Hillary Clinton is “cautious but confident” says yesterday’s New York Times, and is busy picking running mates. Bernie Sanders, who lost by 16%, picking up 106 delegates to Clinton’s 139 is ploughing on. And so he should. Even the New York Times in an editorial agrees: Mr. Sanders has voiced the […]
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Implausibility of a “Social Europe”
Apr 23rd, 2016 by Danny Nicol.Even the dogs on the streets know that David Cameron’s EU “reforms” are pitiful. Indeed, even he no longer mentions them. So why assume that reforming the EU into a “real Social Europe” is any more feasible? It’s when one examines the constitutional obstacles to reform that one realises that the whole idea just doesn’t […]
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Corbyn’s speech: We need a democratic, anti-austerity, reformed European Union
Apr 14th, 2016 by Jeremy Corbyn.This is the text of Jeremy Corbyn’s speech to the Senate House in London this morning The people of this country face a historic choice on 23 June whether to remain part of the European Union, or to leave. I welcome the fact that that decision is now in the hands of the British people. Indeed, […]
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Dave finds out what it’s like when the gutter press have it in for you
Apr 10th, 2016 by Phil Burton-Cartledge.As readers may know, I’m not a politician and when I worked in politics, it wasn’t at the spaddy level where you’re actually listened to. Yet me, a lowly ex-bag carrier responsible for caseloads in an obscure constituency, knows the first rule on resolving a political crisis is to wrap it up as quickly as […]
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The EU – a strong Labour ‘remain’ campaign would be decisive
Apr 7th, 2016 by Peter Rowlands.The recent poll giving Leave a lead (Opinium, Observer, April 3rd), backed up by recent poll averages showing only a small two point lead for Remain, means that there is now a distinct possibility that Leave could carry the day, and Brexit could happen. This is accentuated by the poll also demonstrating that the younger, […]
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Mosul – did the US deliberately bomb civilians?
Mar 25th, 2016 by Mike Phipps.“Mosul and Kirkuk bombed by US,” reported the Daily Mail on 24 March. The United States has been targeting Mosul and Kirkuk in recent days as Washington slowly moves troops into the region to open a new front in its ground war on Iraq, which has been waged mainly from the south via Kuwait.” So […]
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Football for fans not consumers: they took the words right out of our mouth
Mar 19th, 2016 by Mark Perryman.Mark Perryman of Philosophy Football applauds Dortmund fans’ resistance to a European Superleague When the Borussia Dortmund fans held up their brilliant banner at White Hart Lane on Thursday night ‘UEFA Super League? Shut the Fuck Up’ for many fans in England too the response would be ‘you took the words right out of our […]
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Refugees deserve an organised and compassionate EU response to their needs
Mar 18th, 2016 by Claude Moraes.The ongoing humanitarian crisis unfolding in Europe draws attention to Member States doing the very least in response to the biggest refugee crisis since the Second World War. As the world looks on, we are seeing more efforts to seal off borders within the EU as opposed to upholding human dignity – we urgently need […]
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Trumpery is the last thing we need
Mar 7th, 2016 by Bryan Gould.The US matters to us. If we must have a global super-power, we’d rather it was the US than anyone else. That is why, observing from the sidelines, we have a growing sense of incredulity and consternation as the battle for what is often touted as the leadership of the free world unfolds. We are […]
