TOGETHER against evictions. Unite union flags on tenants’ demonstration. Which side is Labour on?
HOUSING campaigners and other friends are going to Lambeth County Court on Friday…Read more…
Labour’s new McCarthyism is already beyond a joke
MARK STEEL (second from left), canvassing for Labour. But denied a vote in leadership contest.
AS left-wing maverick Jeremy Corbyn continues his amazing race towards the Labour…Read more…
Remember Deir Yassin – and Forget Paul Eisen!
WITHOUT Fear or Prejudice. Jeremy Corbyn (second from right, in open neck) with friends at Islington event, in June this year. Every picture tells a story, not always the same one (see…Read more…
Blood Money promised, then postponed.
THOUGH left-wing politicians like Jeremy Corbyn are often accused by right-wing opponents and media of wanting a return to “the 1970s and 1980s” when supposedly unspeakable things were done by…Read more…
The ‘Mail’ finds a link – or does it?
AS Jeremy Corbyn’s campaign for the Labour Party leadership has rolled on in the past few weeks, with the bearded Left-wing veteran addressing huge public meetings around the country, from Birkenhead…Read more…
Limited Company
LORD DAVID SAINSBURY, generous donor
Leadership hopeful LIZ KENDALL
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WITH all…Read more…
Could Spin Turn Flip to Flop?
WITH newspapers and right-wing Labourites desperately digging for something to derail the Jeremy Corbyn campaign, a figure has stepped from the shadows of the not-too-distant past to remind us they…Read more…
Not all Angels, but Not Just Victims Either.
MATCHGIRLS,1888 strike lit way for new trade unionism.
CABLE Street, in the East End of London, entered the pages of history on October 4,1936, when police attempting to force a way through for…Read more…
Don’t let Netanyahu finish Iran nuke deal. Instead make it the start
NETANYAHU scare tactic misfired. So will he try again?
THE international agreement under which the Iranian government renounces the production of nuclear weapons and allows international…Read more…
Nasty business in Bromley
Eviction threat to diabetic carer and daughter AS a responsible council worker and trade unionist, Paul Rooney thought it his duty to criticize the policy and workings of Tory-controlled…Read more…
Clinton campaign undermined on the streets of Tegucigalpa
HONDURANS denounce corruption.
WITH all eyes on Greece, and how far its people can defy the bankers, the IMF, the European Union’s commissioners, and those Germans who insensitively forget…Read more…
Blue Skies, Sir Nicholas, and Fair
ARRIVAL in a strange land. Sculpture at Liverpool Street station commemorates Kindertransport
THANKYOU letter to Nicholas Winton Read more…
Voices Against State Piracy
DROR FEILER, aboard aid vessel Juliano, named after Juliano Mer-Khamis, director of the Jenin Freedom Theatre, who was murdered in 2011. This boat was sabotaged while in Greek harbour….Read more…
Hame to Scotland’s Hot Summer
NO EASY BERTH for privateers
SCOTLAND’S First Minister Nicola Sturgeon was on bright and sparkling form when she visited the USA earlier this month. Appearing on the satirical news programme…Read more…
Secrets and Spies linked with blacklisting
WITH government ministers like Ian Duncan Smith anxiously insisting the results of their policies should be hidden behind secrecy, two stories illustrate the way police are guarding their right to…Read more…
From Hajduk to Hammers
NK HAJDUK, 1944, with new red stars and friends on the island of Vis.
IT was back in the days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in the years before the First World War. A group of…Read more…
Ambassador’s Assessment
JEREMY CORBYN meets supporters on June 20 anti-austerity march.
CRAIG Murray is a former British diplomat who fell out with the Blair government over its support to foreign dictators, became a…Read more…
All Gas and Knighthoods
ANTI-FRACKING protest on Lancashire’s Fylde coast. Offshore fracking may have caused minor earthquake. GMB union called conference in Blackpool to reassure people about benefits of…Read more…
Spying on the Victims
FAMILY of Jean Charles de Menezes held gathering outside Stockwell tube station where he was killed. This was early in January, 2006. Below, the big guy on the left was using a big camera…Read more…
Political Repression is All in the Game, When Big Money is in Play
BIG OIL lubricated way for Azerbaijan, but protesters steal the light.
THE European Games are due to open in Baku, the capital of oil-rich Azerbaijan, on Friday, but the Azerbaijani…Read more…