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People are the power, we just need to organise Class politics is back by necessity. A vicious ideological right-wing Tory government, the fallout of a no-deal Brexit & with Labour rapidly veering to the right our communities are at risk of a further decade of defunding, cuts to services & mass unemployment. If we don’t have real community control, we’re not...

Labour: We are backing the government! If Labour aren’t willing to openly fight against parking charges imposed on our heroic NHS workers then we have seriously lost our way! On the Andrew Marr Show, 12th July 2020, Rachel Reeves refused to say that the wealthiest 5% in the country should pay a little more tax to help pay for the...

The number of peers voting on legislation in the House of Lords has soared since they began to get paid to do it from home, figures reveal. The 780 members of the House of Lords usually receive an attendance allowance of £323 per day, due to the coronavirus outbreak and restrictions, peers were offered an incentive to vote, by taking...

Peaceful protest results in National Guard withdrawing. Donald Trump tweeted Sunday morning that he has ordered for the National Guard to start the process of withdrawing from Washington, DC, after days of peaceful protests. "They will be going home, but can quickly return, if needed. Far fewer protesters showed up last night than anticipated!" Trump tweeted. Roughly 5,000 National Guard troops...

George Floyd died in circumstances that are horrifyingly familiar. On Monday last week, he was was arrested quietly, after a call was made alleging that he cashed a bad cheque. Phone footage taken moments later shows a police officer’s knee pinning Floyd’s neck to the ground. The last nine minutes of George Floyd’s life were spent in excruciating pain,...

Bernie Sanders drops out of the 2020 race, clearing Joe Biden's path to the Democratic nomination Bernie Sanders ended his presidential campaign on Wednesday, clearing Joe Biden's path to the Democratic nomination and a showdown with President Donald Trump in November. Sanders made the announcement in a call with his campaign staff, his campaign said. Sanders' exit caps a stunning reversal of...

Class politics is back and with a vengeance. In 1997 Labour’s John Prescott declared that ‘we’re all middle class now’ thus echoing the wishful thinking of many university-educated professionals who joined Blair’s New Labour believing forlornly that class distinctions was at long last finally dead and buried, never to return again. How wrong they were. Clearly, with austerity, food banks,...

Dr Lisa McKenzie - that rare thing - a working class woman with a platform within academia and on the media, who uses it to resurrect, agitate and educate on social class, just posted about how we in Labour have the balance of concern all wrong.  In our language, we would say it’s arse about face.  Here’s why I...

Pangolins may be the latest link in the coronavirus outbreak, but as with SARS and MERS, bats are the most likely original source of the deadly virus. Scientists believe bats' unique genetic quirks make them ideal hosts. There are many questions about the novel Coronavirus that remain unanswered, such as “how does the virus spread?” and “where did...

The EU is prepared to spend billions on the military but not for civil projects NATO’s Defender Europe 2020 is war against Russia role-play, no matter what they tell you Britain may have just left the European Union but the country’s Navy was the first to arrive for US-led war games over the next six months across Europe. The Royal Navy was...