Lessons of Labour’s leadership contest

corbyn-obamaJeremy Corbyn is expected to be announced the victor over his challenger, Owen Smith, in the Labour Party leadership contest today.

His re-election will be seen by many as a triumph over the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) and above all the Blairites who led the McCarthyite witch-hunt to remove him. But notwithstanding such understandable sentiment, this will prove to be a Pyrrhic victory. (more…)

Number of London homeless sleeping on the streets tops 8,000 nightly
26 October 2016
More than 8,000 people "sleep rough" in London each night, and for these vulnerable citizens the average life expectancy is just 47 years.
UK Labour right views Corbyn’s compromises as chance to resume offensive
26 September 2016
Far from accepting Corbyn’s increased majority in the Labour leadership contest, the media and the party are discussing how leadership can be restored to the right wing.
Manchester, England: Labour-controlled authority threatens all firefighters’ jobs
24 September 2016
Firefighters the length and breadth of the UK are facing similar attacks on jobs and conditions, jeopardising their own safety and that of the public.
Lessons of Labour’s leadership contest
24 September 2016
The following statement is being distributed at the Labour Party Special Conference and the Momentum-backed The World Transformed event this weekend.
Retiring British general urges preparations for war with Russia
19 September 2016
Retiring General Sir Richard Barrons is unusually frank in laying out the nature of the military conflicts he says Britain must prepare for.
Many UK museums face closure due to funding cuts
16 September 2016
Museums are being forced to absorb a one-third cut in public funding and the pressure of falling visitor numbers due to the economic crisis.
UK: North Manchester National Health Service Trust struggling to cope
13 September 2016
A recent health care quality report raised serious concerns over the lack of adequate staffing in a number of different departments.
UK government pledge to expand grammar schools signals escalation of selective education
13 September 2016
The attack on comprehensive education has been proceeding apace, with the majority of secondary schools now academies and free schools.
UK political crisis deepens over Brexit
10 September 2016
Representatives of the ruling elite who favour EU membership are loudly voicing their concerns that the May government is bereft of any strategy following the Brexit vote.
Mounting evidence of British “boots on the ground” in Syria
8 September 2016
The secret deployment of the SAS is of a piece with the government’s campaign of lies, deceit and disinformation throughout the five-year-long civil war.

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