Paul Knaggs

1984 Miners' Strike: The Iron Heel of State Repression and Working-Class Defiance Growing up, I was fortunate to live near the fabled site of the Battle of Hatfield Chase in 633, one of the most decisive clashes in Saxon England. The local tales of the Northumbrian King Edwin's fateful stand against the Gwynedd-Mercian alliance captivated my youthful imagination. Little did I...

Gaza: An Open Wound on Humanity's Conscience How I wish I could focus my pen on the stirring domestic issues of the day - the endemic corruption, the attacks on our civil rights, the fraying social fabric, the hollow slogans, the abandoned levelling up and the raging monster of inequality in this manufactured cost of living crisis orchestrated by corporate...

The Left Bites Back: Grassroots Resistance to Starmer’s Labour From Rochdale to Holborn Hot on the heels of George Galloway's stunning Rochdale victory, a bridgehead has been established. Now the fight advances into the very heart of the establishment beast. This weekend, on the doorstep of Sir Keir Starmer's own constituency of Holborn and St Pancras, that tireless crusader Andrew Feinstein...

The Lion Roars Again: George Galloway takes Rochdale George Galloway has won the Rochdale by-election with 12,335 votes. The Workers Party of Great Britain candidate overturned a Labour majority in the Greater Manchester seat. The irrepressible lion of the left, George Galloway, has conquered Rochdale in a landslide victory that will send tremors through the halls of Westminster. This tireless titan and...

Sir Keir Starmer's Deep State Denial: He's hoping we forget his membership of the Trilateral Commission The Washington Post, renowned for uncovering the Watergate scandal, also shed light on the Trilateral Commission, an organisation often associated with the controversial concept of the "Deep State." In a 1992 article titled "Beware the Trilateral Commission!", David Mills described the group as "the...

Swedish MEP Abir Al-Sahlani spent most of her allotted speaking time at an EU parliamentary session in silence to protest Israel’s war on Gaza, before saying there were “no more words to speak about what’s going on in Gaza” and that “human rights have a skin colour”. https://twitter.com/AbirAlsahlani/status/1762557177602924888?s=20 "There are no more words to express what's going on in Gaza, Mr....

Rochdale By-Election: Westminster Trembles as Galloway Closes In At last, are we about to see a breath of fresh air waft through the stale chambers of Westminster? The irrepressible gorgeous George Galloway, a lion of the left unfettered by the fetid political orthodoxies, stands poised to claim the Rochdale seat in next week's by-election. The bookies overwhelmingly fancy this veteran...

Tory MP Lee Anderson Suspended Over 'Dog Whistle' Comments About Sadiq Khan Lee Anderson, Conservative MP for Ashfield, has been stripped of the party whip after refusing to apologise for claiming that London mayor Sadiq Khan had "given away" the capital to Islamists. In an appearance on GB News on Friday, the former deputy chairman of the Conservative Party stated that...

Cloak and Dagger: How Starmer Rigged the Ceasefire Vote Sir Keir Starmer has acknowledged that he had discussions with Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle before the Ceasefire vote, where he admitted to "urging" Hoyle to select his Amendment to the SNP motion. While he firmly denied threatening Hoyle, he avoided addressing whether any Labour MPs had done so. It was noted that...

30,000 Souls Later: Starmer's Belated Call for Gaza's Ceasefire Sir Keir Starmer’s endless equivocation over the horrific slaughter in Gaza exposes both his lack of principle and the moral bankruptcy of New Labour. For month after month, as the bombs rained down and the bodies piled up, this petty politician sat on the fence, unwilling to take a stand....