By Gwydion M. Williams Immigration – Giving Away the Lives of Others Feed-The-Rich Privatisation Hungary – the Wounds of 1956 Snippets Structureless Protests are Fun, but Failures USA Resenting Indian Success Hindu Home-Grown Racism Poland Replacing Coal With Nuclear. Sunlight for Power and Food Robots – Dangers and Hopes Still Fighting to the Last Ukrainian … Continue reading Notes on the News
Catherine Dunlop Public debate over immigration and freedom of expression has become one of the most divisive issues in British politics. For many, the question is no longer just about border policy but about who gets to speak, what can be said, and who is silenced. Against this backdrop, the Unite the Kingdom Freedom of … Continue reading A Freedom of Speech Rally
By Gwydion M. Williams The Problem of Political Compromise Lenin’s Militarised Socialism Trotsky In The Middle, With Egoism Making Soviet Democracy Unworkable Trotsky as an Obstructive Opposition Further Reading The Problem of Political Compromise Trotskyists imagine themselves as leaders of World Revolution, and it is sheer fantasy. But it means that they confidently oppose and undermine … Continue reading Trotskyism – a Century of Failures
Eamon Dyas [This addresses the question of immigration in Ireland, but the same situation exists in Britain.] What began as a genuine outbreak of resistance in local communities to the results of EU immigration policies has become synonymous with the right. There was always an inevitability about all of this as the left, with its … Continue reading Immigration Policy in Ireland
UN OCHA snapshot on Gaza Strip (24 September 2025) Trump promises Arab, Muslim leaders he won’t let Israel annex the West Bank (Politico, 24 September 2025) UN General Assembly 2025: Day two brings further condemnation of Israel's war on Gaza (Yasmine El-Sabawi, Middle East Eye, 24 September 2025) Final goodbye: MEE reporters on the pain … Continue reading PALESTINE LINKS
Some 150,000 people attended the Unite the Kingdom march in London on 13th September 2025. The typical response of many on the left is to see the march as indicative of the rise of fascism and racism. Racists may indeed have participated in that march, but we believe the majority of participants were people who feel they have … Continue reading The Case of the German Left
[LA: It is striking how much the situation in Germany mirrors that of England, in particular the race to armaments at the expense of the welfare state, and the increase in the price of energy due to sanctions against Russian oil and gas. The situation created would be intolerable to the population in England if they … Continue reading The Sahra Wagenknecht Newsletter
As we go to press it appears that Starmer has made his first move against his chancellor Rachel Reeves. Starmer has no understanding of economics but he does grasp that the huge drop in Labour’s position in the polls can mostly be explained by the economic policies that Reeves is following. Darren Jones, who had … Continue reading Starmer Shuffles—Editorial
Britain’s Politicised Terror Legislation Britain is now seeing the full effects on our civil liberties of the provisions of the 2000 Terrorism Act and other anti-terrorism legislation. It is evident that the government and the political class are determined to enforce the provisions of the 2000 and 2006 terrorism legislation to punish indirect and even … Continue reading Demolishing Democracy—Editorial
At a meeting in Algiers on 15 November 1988, the Palestine National Council, then led by Yasser Arafat, declared the establishment of a Palestinian state in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem and Gaza, with its capital in Jerusalem. In response, by the end of 1988, 78 states had recognised it and granted it full … Continue reading Recognising Palestine
Labour Affairs will appear a few days late this September. As you wait for the full issue, here is an article by Eamon Dyas that tackles the crucial issue of today: how can a society atomised by the domination of the economy by finance function at all? Industrial capitalism created a class of people who produced things … Continue reading LABOUR AFFAIRS SEPTEMBER 2025
In the 1970s, the trade unions were so strong they had political power, as the media never stops reminding us. This power was such that a government report (the Bullock report) offered the unions an official role in deciding economic policy. Now the majority of workers are not in a union, and wages and conditions have declined … Continue reading The significance of the rejection of Bullock by the Trade Unions
By Gwydion M. Williams Vanity and Defeat in the 1970s Big Dominant Creatures Not Really Winners ‘Dead Souls’ Recovering Intelligent Despite Natural Selection? Walking Apes, Accidental Tool Users Could I Compare You to a Summers Day? Vanity and Defeat in the 1970s After World War Two ended with victory for the old Imperial powers in … Continue reading Falsifying Darwin, Feeding the Rich
By Gwydion M. Williams When Mr President of the USA makes International Law Lies about Ukraine’s Civil War Labour Renewal Snippets US Politics – Corrupt Long Before Trump Gaza’s Yours, the Donbass is Ours ? Should Xi try an Aksai Chin gambit? (Pictured) A Mess in Bolivia Why are honeybees dying en masse in the … Continue reading Notes on the News
How to stop Israel from starving Gaza (Professor Jeffrey Sachs & Sybil Fares (Other News, 1 September 2025) As Israeli students return to classrooms, Gaza's schools lie in ruins (Middle East Eye, 1 September 2025) How disability can become a death sentence in Gaza today (Penny Green & Grace Spence Green, Middle East Eye, 1 … Continue reading PALESTINE LINKS
LA comment: reading press headlines over the years, you could be forgiven for thinking the BBC ‘has a problem with Israel’ and is biased in favour of Palestinians. Nothing could be further from the truth, as this report shows. CfMM’s new report concludes that the BBC is systematically biased against Palestinians in Gaza war coverage. Analysis … Continue reading BBC on Gaza-Israel: One Story, Double Standards
Morning Star 16 August 2025 TEN out of 24 pro-Palestine activists charged over a break-in at an Israeli weapons factory in Bristol have been held in prison for a year without trial. Eight have been in custody for nine months, with most of the Filton 24 set to be imprisoned for more than two years … Continue reading ARMS FACTORY 10 HELD FOR A YEAR WITHOUT TRIAL
Official JVL Statement Labour Affairs supports this official statement by Jewish Voice for Labour Palestine Action is not a terrorist organisation Sat 28 Jun 2025 Palestine Action is not a Terrorist Organisation There is an overwhelming consensus that terrorism involves the use or threat of violence against civilians for a political purpose. So says JUSTICE, the … Continue reading Palestine Action is not a terrorist organisation
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