"While Ministers claim that the Bill simply formalises existing protocols for undercover police, it actually allows them to commit serious crimes with impunity – including murder, sexual assault & torture – & could effectively license them to act as agent provocateurs."
Keep mobilising for no more wars of intervention, support for the Palestinians & no cold war with China – Andrew Murray on Labour’s Foreign Policy.
“Corbyn’s staunch anti-imperialist & anti-war campaigning was his quality which the hostile establishment liked least of all.”
Medical apartheid double jeopardy – no vaccines for Palestine, no vaccines for Africa. By Hugh Lanning, ‘Labour & Palestine’
“As the occupying power – under the Geneva convention – Israel is responsible for the health of the occupied Palestinian population. It has washed its hands of this responsibility – a direct, conscious, political decision not to make the vaccine available.“
Socialists, Labour & the Cautionary Tale of the ILP Split
"Every time the Labour left has suffered a significant setback in the last 35 years there have been resignations & calls to form a new left party. Attempts like Arthur Scargill’s Socialist Labour Party rapidly collapsed into irrelevance."
We can’t win by promising to be better managers of the same system – Momentum challenges Starmer’s “no ambition, little substance” reset speech
"The pandemic demands a program that can deliver transformative change for working people."
The Tories & the Crisis: Organised, systematic theft while 10,000s are dying. Helen O’Connor, People’s Assembly. #FightBack2021
“The demands of our movement are no longer just about fairness & equality - they are about life and death.”
Mobilise Labour’s Grassroots for a Socialist Agenda – Gemma Bolton, Labour NEC. #FightBack2021
“This decade & beyond will be defined by multiple crises facing our society. If Labour is to be relevant to the millions of working people that we want to vote for us, we must offer bold & serious solutions to these crises.”
Starmer’s Mandelson Return Won’t Help Labour – Left Warns Over Return to Blairism
"The return of Peter Mandelson reflects a course of direction at odds with Labour’s members & at odds with the platform Starmer was elected on." - Gemma Bolton, NEC member.
Trump has gone – time to end US sanctions on Cuba, Nicaragua & Venezuela
"First & foremost, sanctions are illegal coercive measures designed to bring about regime change, install US client governments, destroy progressive achievements & reinstate neoliberal policies."
Deepening Inequality in the Crisis – How The Tories Have Failed Women, by Kate Osborne MP. #COVID19UK
“Despite the devastating impact, women have been neither seen nor heard by the government during the pandemic.”