Hundreds听of angry residents stormed council offices on June 16 as they demanded support, housing and answers over the Grenfell Tower disaster amid accusations of 鈥渕ass murder.鈥 They听gathered outside the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea civic centre and entered the building听to stage a sit-down protest. Council leaders refused to meet them.
Residents held placards demanding 鈥淛ustice for Grenfell鈥 and chanted 鈥渃ome downstairs鈥 as they presented a list of immediate demands to the council.
In the aftermath of the fire that destroyed the 120 apartments of the Grenfell Tower in London, with at least 17 fatalities, a heartbroken Grenfell Tower Action Group to the repeated, detailed warnings it provided to authorities that the building was a disaster waiting to happen.
In the aftermath of Britain鈥檚 June 8 elections, in which Labour defied expectations to make major gains while the Conservative government of Theresa May lost its majority, the surge of support for Labour鈥檚 socialist leader Jeremy Corbyn and his anti-austerity platform has grown.
After promising for months that she鈥檇 never call an early election, Tory Prime Minister Theresa May called a snap general election in April 鈥 fully expecting to be returned with a thumping Conservative majority.
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This year鈥檚 general election has been historic in marking the rebirth of Labour as a radical voice for working people and an end to cross-party parliamentary neoliberal consensus.
Theresa May desperately clung to power yesterday by resorting to a coalition of terror with the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP).
After months of smearing Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn as a so-called 鈥渢errorist sympathiser鈥 for engaging in peace talks with the IRA, she leapt into bed with the notorious loyalist party to avoid the humiliation of seeing her opportunist snap election force her out of No 10.
Ten DUP MPs will allow a government that looks set to be 鈥 in the words she previously used against other parties 鈥 a 鈥渨eak and unstable coalition of chaos.鈥
What seemed at first to be a depressing and predictable British election, with the hard right Tories under Prime Minister Theresa May set for a larger majority, has become a fascinating election contest.
Labour鈥檚 support has surged to the point where something unthinkable just weeks ago 鈥 a Jeremy Corbyn prime ministership 鈥 is now at least an outside chance.
With less than two weeks until the June 8 general elections, a song about Tory leader Theresa May reached the Top 10 in the download chart. Yet the official chart shows on radio stations Capital FM and Heart have refused to play it.听
Performed by Captain Ska, 鈥溾 can be for 拢1 or less, with proceeds split between food banks and campaign group the People鈥檚 Assembly Against Austerity.
An eco-socialist and international coordinator听for the Greens Party of England and Wales, Derek Wall is challenging Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May as the Greens candidate for May鈥檚 seat of Maidenhead under the slogan 鈥淢ake June the End of May鈥.
Campaigning against racist migration controls, austerity and May鈥檚 support for fox hunting is giving Wall鈥檚 campaign traction, and it enjoys strong support from the Kurdish community.
The huge Labour losses in the May 4 local council elections are just what the Labour Right was hoping for.
The left has to be crystal clear about what is happening here. There are many subsidiary factors, but the root of the Conservative Party's substantial gains 鈥 500 seats won against about 400 losses for Labour 鈥 is the xenophobic nationalism of Brexit which the Tories have used ruthlessly.
Media coverage encouraged and inflamed Britain鈥檚 referendum campaign on whether to leave the European Union last year to make it the 鈥渕ost divisive, hostile, negative and fear-provoking鈥 in British history, according to a new report.
King鈥檚 College London鈥檚 Centre for the Study of Media, Communication and Power (CMCP) analysed more than 15,000 articles published online by 20 national news outlets. It found the media coverage 鈥渁crimonious and divisive鈥 and dominated by 鈥渙verwhelmingly negative鈥 reports about the consequences of migration to Britain.
I鈥檓 not one of nature鈥檚 optimists at the best of times, and a rash of media headlines predicting a doomsday scenario for Labour on June 8 aren鈥檛 exactly good for the spirits. But how far are their gloomy predictions born out by the facts of the May 4 local election results|听鈥 in which the governing Tories won 38% (up eight points from last year's vote) and Labour just 27% (down 4 points)?