Johnson and “Dubai on Thames”
When Boris Johnson came to power as Mayor of London back in 2008, one of the many unkept promises he made was not
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Labour Party
Starmer and the defeat of Corbynism
As predicted, Keir Starmer won the Labour leadership election with 56.2% of the vote (275,780 votes). The “left” candidate, Rebecca Long-Bailey (who expressed
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Labour pains
The contest for the leadership of the Labour Party ends today (Thursday April 2nd) and the results should be announced on Saturday. It
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Corbynism after Corbyn: Bankruptcy of Electoralism
You would have thought that the major defeat for the Labour Party would be a strong signal to rethink a strategy that relies
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Never Mind the Ballots, Create the Resistance
As we said when we were still in the Anarchist Federation back in 2015, “Grassroots groups and organisations emerging around housing and opposition
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Is voting Labour the solution?
The General Election of 2017 saw Labour’s vote go up to 40 per cent, in what was seen as a victory for Corbyn’s
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Neither Labour nor Tory
Nor Lib Dem, UKIPs, Farage, TIG, Greens, etc… In many towns and cities local elections are happening soon, and in spite of the
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Afternoon tea with Corbyn & May
This article from 7th April has been reposted with some amendments. Jeremy Corbyn responded to Theresa May’s request for talks about a possible
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The Labour Party and Universal Credit
Those of us who’ve been around awhile will know the old Labour Party trick of trying to sound all radical when out of
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