The council election result in Kensington and Chelsea, as part of England鈥檚 council elections on May 3, was a good indicator of how polarised the political situation is in Britain,聽writes Andy Stowe.
Jeremy Corbyn
British opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn said on April 14 that there was no legal basis for British strikes against Syria and such action would encourage others to behave in the same way. He has called for a new War Powers Act, which would require the British government to seek approval from parliament for any future military actions.
In a letter to British Prime Minister Theresa May, Corbyn explained why he opposed the coordinated United States, British and French strikes against Syrian government structures. The coalition fired more than 100 missiles into Syria.
Ever since his unexpected rise to British Labour Party leader, veteran socialist MP Jeremy Corbyn has faced sustained attacks and smears from the media, Tories and the right-wing of his own party. But over the past month, the attacks have become an unprecedented avalanche.
British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, a long-time supporter of Palestinian rights, posted a that was to be read out April 7 demonstrations across Britain against Israel's latest killings of Palestinians in Gaza. By April 8,聽the death toll of Palestinians shot dead by Israeli forces while protesting in Gaza since March 30聽 had .
In the middle of the harshest winter for more than a decade, Britain finds itself still gripped by the icy fingers of neoliberal austerity.
Anyone who is a public figure can expect a bit of hate mail. Recently I received about half a dozen colourful phone messages after WA One Nation parliamentarian Charles Smith published a Facebook meme attacking the City of Fremantle for having "the most Un-Australian [sic] council in the Nation". Included were my contact details and those of the Mayor, with outraged right-wingers encouraged to communicate their rage at us for "destroying Australia Day".
A Labour government would officially apologise and pardon the suffragettes for the miscarriages of justice they suffered in fighting for women鈥檚 right to vote in Britain, said Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.
Britain鈥檚 socialist Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn vowed to end Britain鈥檚 rough-sleeping crisis if elected prime minister by 鈥渋mmediately鈥 purchasing 8000 homes for people with a history of sleeping on the streets.
As Turkey鈥檚 air force bombed the Afrin canton in northern Syria, causing growing civilian casualties in a region that is home to hundreds of thousands of refugees, British Prime Minister Theresa May signed a new deal worth 拢100 million with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on January 28 to help Turkey develop new fighter jets.
By contrast, the socialist leader of the Labour Party opposition, Jeremy Corbyn, sent a message to a protest against Turkey鈥檚 invasion that expressed his solidarity with Afrin and the Kurdish people.
Everyone sensed the new energy at this year鈥檚 Labour Party conference, held in Brighton from September 24-27.
The reality of the conference was something not seen in Britain for a long time: thousands of determined and self-confident members of a Labour Party that boldly stands for what they believe in.
Britain鈥檚 main trade union confederation, the Trade Union Congress (TUC),聽held its 149th annual conference in Brighton on September 10-13. The gathering brought together hundreds of leaders, organisers, delegates and activists from more than 50 TUC-affiliated trade unions.
The conference discussed and adopted motions of support and campaign plans to oppose the austerity measures of the Conservative-Democratic Unionist Party government of Prime Minister Theresa May.
狈补迟丑补苍听is a young London-based activist who has joined the British Labour Party as a supporter of the platform of socialist leader Jeremy Corbyn. A student who is part of the National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts and a member of , Roberts was recently in Australia for the Radical Ideas conference in Melbourne organised by over August 18-20.
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