Anyone involved in the Labour movement can see first hand that the momentum of the Jeremy Corbyn campaign is continuing to transform our political environment. Many of us are still trying to get our heads round the new situation. Socialists like myself, or the Socialist Party who haven’t signed up continue to feel the magnetic…
Grauniad – 5th October 2015 “This has been the most ridiculous protest I’ve ever witnessed” said Chief Superintendent Bacon, describing the mayhem of yesterday’s Peoples Assembly Protest at Conservative Party Conference. They had promised to “Shut Down” Tory Conference, which thankfully they failed to do. However, their other hope was to “Laugh Them Out Of Town“, and…
Five arguments for joining Labour. Five arguments for staying outside Labour As thousands have joined the Labour Party since Corbyn’s stunning success in the leadership race, there are many thousands more who have yet to make up their mind. I’m one of them, and I thought I’d try and give the arguments for and against…
Not content with disrespecting our war heroes and our Queen, Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn now wants to wreck your Family Christmas. Our world famous investigative reporters have uncovered a plot by self confessed “revolutionaries” to record Jeremy Corbyn singing the vile Sex Pistols rewrite of God Save The Queen.They are plotting to start a…
With Corbyn now leading the Labour Party, socialists, ant-capitalists, anti-austerity campaigners and environmental activists urgently need to answer the following questions 1 Is the Labour Party still just a bosses party? Over the last 25 years, more and more socialists have concluded that Labour is no different from the Tory Party. Given that…
David Milliband would be Labour leader and probably Prime Minister today, were it not for Tory Party members taking part in Labour’s 2010 leadership race, Facing Reality can exclusively reveal. Back in 2010, while no such thing as “registered supporter” existed in the Labour Party, individual members of trade unions affiliated to Labour could vote for the Party…
“Its against the law to ban us from voting” declared one supporter. “The Sale of Goods Act, 1979, clearly says purchases of goods must be “fit for purpose”. Labour says “Registered Supporters will also have an individual vote at future Labour Party leadership elections“. They have denied us this so we want our money back!” Said Aaron…
“Dear Jeremy Corbyn supporter “I’m sorry I couldn’t join you, but thank you so much for supporting Jeremy Corbyn and helping to demolish the myth of the inevitability of austerity and neo-liberalism. My plea to you all is “what are you going to do after the result is declared on September 12th?”. In fact, whatever happens,…
#thisisacoup sums up the disgust millions around the world feel after the spectacle of EU politicians yet again robbing ordinary Greek people to line the pockets of their banker mates. I’m sure I wasn’t the only socialist who, after not being sure how they’d vote in the coming UK referendum on EU membership, decided to…
September 12th, 2015 Brighton Jeremy Corbyn has been elected as leader of the Labour Party. In the morning before the announcement, the rumours had spread round conference delegates at the Brighton Centre. But nobody believed them. The announcement of the result was first met with a deathly silence. A few delegates could be heard giggling. Some later…
The biscuit industry were the only ones cheering as the Electoral Court examined evidence of fraud in the 2015 General Election in light of April’s judgement on Luftur Rahman, former mayor of Tower Hamlets. With the spirit of the Tower Hamlets judgement applied to all elections in May 2015, most MPs, including the Prime Minister…
Reems of newsprint and hours of psephologists time have been wasted analysing who voted for who and whether or not Labour lost to UKIP. Socialists have joined in this farce too, and the far more interesting election statistic has been ignored by all sides. That is the groups where the majority couldn’t or didn’t vote.…
Whatever the results of the election, it was clear that in the aftermath Left Unity would need to sit down and work out where it wanted to go for the next few years and what kind of organisation it needs to become. In his letter to the Guardian that led to the creation of Left…
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Who thinks that sixth formers in Bristol are any different from most young people in Britain? Nobody I hope, unless there’s something I don’t know about scrumpy’s special ingredients.So why were they able to mobilise 3,000 people in a few days to protest about the actions of a newly elected government? I think it’s because they’re…
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