This is going to be an election based more on competing policies and visions of society than any other election for a long time. Mark Serwotka, general secretary of the Public and Commercial Services union, pointed out at the London May Day rally that this is completely different to the past two elections where the challenge was to spot the difference 鈥 elections that Labour lost.
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鈥淟abour is solidly ahead of the Conservatives with voters under 40 years old, despite being more than 20 points behind in the polls overall, according to a significant new poll,鈥 The Independent said on April 26.
Prime Minister Theresa May has called a general election for June 8. The Tory leader is hoping that Labour has been sufficiently weakened by the attacks of the right on Labour鈥檚 left-wing leadership around Jeremy Corbyn that she will be rewarded with a further five years in office.
It is, of course, a complete coincidence that rumours had started to emerge that the Crown Prosecution Service were about to move against 30 individuals for electoral fraud in the last general election, threatening the Conservative government.
You know how it is when you go to the movies. Sometimes the sequel has a bigger impact than the original.
The announcement by Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon that she would bring forward proposals for a second referendum on Scottish independence may prove another example of this phenomenon.
There is a real feeling across Scotland, in Westminster and the media, that this time the Yes side could win and Scotland could break from the 鈥淯nited Kingdom鈥.
On Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal聽readers can find an interview with leading ecosocialist voice Daniel Tanuro as well as聽articles looking at the ongoing fallout of the Brexit vote聽and the origins of arguably the most famous slogan in revolutionary history: "All power to the Soviets!"
, the largest anti-war group in Britain, release the statement below after the attacks by a lone man in London killed four people on March 22, before being shot dead.
Irish republican leader Martin McGuinness, who was聽Sinn Fein leader in Northern Ireland until stepping down due to ill health earlier this year, passed away on March 20 aged 66.
Born in 1950 in Derry聽in the six counties occupied by Britain, he came face to face with the discrimination and sectarian bigotry against Irish nationalists and Catholics that marked the partitioned statelet.
Ian聽Hodson, national president of the Bakers Food and Allied Workers Union, explains why his union continues to support socialist Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, as the veteran left-winger faces fresh calls to resign over his alleged 鈥渦nelectability鈥.
Lady Constance Lytton: Aristocrat, Suffragette, Martyr
Lyndsey Jenkins
Biteback Publishing, 2015
282 pages
When Lady Constance Bulwer-Lytton was arrested in 1909 for protesting outside British parliament, and went on prison hunger-strike, for demanding women鈥檚 right to vote, she was, to prevent an embarrassing political fuss, released early.
This avoided the spectacle of one of Britain鈥檚 best-connected aristocrats being subjected to the government鈥檚 policy of force-feeding hunger-striking suffragettes.
Eleanor Marx
By Rachel Holmes
Bloomsbury, 2015
508 pages
鈥淚s it not wonderful when you come to look at things squarely in the face, how rarely we seem to practise all the fine things we preach to others?鈥 lamented Eleanor Marx in 1892.聽
Karl Marx鈥檚 youngest daughter was to be the tragic victim of this truism, as Rachel Holmes explores in her biography that extricates this pioneering revolutionary socialist feminist from the giant shadow of her father.
Trump鈥檚 planned Britain trip postponed due to protests
I often hear that music and politics should remain separate. I snigger at such a concept; as if they have ever been separate.
Those proponents may as well take the next logical turn and suggest that drugs and pop have never taken the same fork in the road.
Without some form of statement, music would have become as relevant as the novella, or Spanish mime.
Every turn in society has been reflected in the music of the day, from medieval folk to early jazz and blues, to punk and beyond. In some societies, it is one of the few ways of telling how brutal life is.
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