The European Union elites have rejected British Prime Minister Theresa May鈥檚 Brexit proposals (known as the Chequers plan) on the basis that they breach the fundamental principles of the EU; i.e. the internal market and free movement. Alan Davies write that this has increased the likelihood of a disorderly (鈥渘o deal鈥) exit from the EU 鈥 and increased support for a second referendum on the issue.
Britain
From taxing tech firms to pay the license fee to creating a new British Digital Corporation (BDC), the Alternative MacTaggart Lecture by British Labour鈥檚 socialist leader Jeremy Corbyn听 in August听 unveiled an array of potential new Labour听 digital policies, writes Nick Webb.
These proposals are not yet official party policy, but they give a good sense of where Labour鈥檚 leadership is headed as it develops its offering ahead of a potential Brexit-related snap election.
The British Labour Party took a radical, anti-austerity manifesto to last year鈥檚 general elections and, despite polls and media commentators expecting an unprecedented disaster, came close to winning, denying the ruling Conservatives a majority. Despite this success, attempts to attack and sabotage Labour鈥檚 socialist leader Jeremy Corbyn, and the ranks that support his vision, have continued. 惭颈肠丑补别濒听颁补濒诲别谤产补苍办听takes a look at what took place and what it means for the party鈥檚 future.
Tory-supporting media have been portraying Britain鈥檚 socialist Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn as a Soviet fellow-traveller. Meanwhile, 贬颈濒补谤测听奥补颈苍飞谤颈驳丑迟 notes, Labour鈥檚 shadow chancellor and close Corbyn ally sets out a vision that breaks with the old bureaucratic state model.
Shadow chancellor John McDonnell can usually barely breathe a word about nationalisation without setting off a media frenzy, so it鈥檚 strange that his most interesting comments yet on the subject passed with so little comment.
Canada鈥檚 historic vote in June to legalise cannabis is yet another nail in the coffin of the so-called War on Drugs, conceived in the 1970s by听then US-president Richard Nixon, writes Natalie Sharples.
鈥淪o called鈥 because it was deliberately conceived to obscure what it really was: not a war on substances at all, but on Black people and the anti-war left.
People are 鈥渏ustifiably angry鈥 that Labour鈥檚 national executive committee (NEC) decided to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism, Jewish Socialists鈥 Group鈥檚 Julia Bard said after the NEC voted to do so on September 4.
Jewish Socialists鈥 Group activist David Rosenberg said it was 鈥渘o doubt a significant setback鈥 for Jeremy Corbyn鈥檚 allies but, despite the adoption of the definition and all its 11 examples, pro-Israel MPs and groups are hesitant to call it a victory.
The British Labour Party鈥檚 national executive council (NEC) voted on September 4 to adopt the controversial the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism. Supporters of Palestinian liberation, including Jewish groups, have criticised the definition.
In Northern Ireland, made up of the six Irish counties still claimed by Britain, a majority voted to remain in the European Union in Britain鈥檚 2016 referendum. But 鈥淏rexit鈥 is threatening to take it out of the EU regardless 鈥 threatening progress in a statelet historically wracked by discrimination, inequality and violence.
Brexit is a threat to Northern Ireland in several ways. Key aspects of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, which formally ended decades of armed conflict, underpinned by European law and funds.
Populism Now! The Case for Progressive Populism
David McKnight
New South, 2018
177 pages, rrp $29.99
David McKnight鈥檚 Populism Now! catches a wave of discussion about the chances for a progressive 鈥減opulism鈥, writes Jonathan Strauss.
Also in the spray, for example, is a June Quarterly Essay piece by the Australia Institute鈥檚 Richard Denniss 鈥淒ead Right: how neoliberalism ate itself and what comes next鈥 and the previously post-whatever Chantal Mouffe鈥檚 musings on 鈥渓eft populism鈥.
Britain鈥檚 Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May is in dire trouble and likely to be voted out of office by her own MPs when parliament returns in September, writes English socialist Phil Hearse.
Donald Trump is the rallying symbol for the new nationalist hard right globally. Andy Stowe writes that his visit to England and Scotland on the weekend of July 13 and 14听was an opportunity to gauge just how much he is loathed.
It was a test of strength between the left and neo-fascist right in Scotland as well as several English town and cities. It was a big victory for the left.
"A day after听听to tell President Donald Trump that neither he nor his worldview were welcome in U.K.," Jon Queally wrote on , "the people of Scotland on Sunday also took to the streets to let the U.S.
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