John ClaydenAn Army Like No Other: How the Israel Defence Force Made a Nation Verso, 2020by Haim Bresheeth-ZabnerNot long ago some of us went to demonstrate outside Hackney Police Station when we learnt the police were receiving training from the Israeli security services. Our MP Dianne Abbott turned up thereby no doubt sealing her own … Continue reading An Army Like No Other—Book Review
LABOUR AND HOUSING—Part 15 By Eamon Dyas The previous article in this series explained the circumstances in which the second minority Labour administration found itself when it came to power in 1929. Despite the unfavourable political and economic situation that administration managed to pass the 1930 Housing Act which, although unambitious in nature, did succeed … Continue reading The fate of Labour’s early land tax legislation
Gwydion M. Williams (The photo shows Robert Fico, PM of Slovakia) Georgia Defending its Sovereignty Slovakia Condemned for Disagreement Georgia Defending its Sovereignty If it is wrong for foreign powers to meddle in the politics of sovereign nations, surely it is sensible to make a law exposing those who have been meddled with? To insists … Continue reading The Slovak Assassin and the Riots in Georgia
Gwydion M. Williams (The photo shows Islington Town Hall) I began this letter to urge you to stand in your current seat. I’ve now updated it to give reasons why you were right. On the issue of left-wingers standing against top-down-chosen Labour candidates: there is no danger of letting in a Tory or Liberal Democrat in … Continue reading An Open Letter to Jeremy Corbyn
Surveillance and interference: Israel’s covert war on the ICC exposed (Yuval Abraham & Meron Rapoport, 28 May 2024) German foreign minister says she saw non-existent 7 Oct. rape video (Ali Abunimah, Electronic Intifada, 27 May 2024) Can Palestinians imagine a future with Israelis after this war? (Mahmoud Mushtaha, +972, 27 May 2024) Doctor, teacher and children … Continue reading Palestine Links
Below is a selection of George Galloway’s work in the House of Commons; we have omitted votes and most questions. All contributions available at https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/10218/george_galloway/rochdale [8/5/24 David Lammy (Urgent Question): To ask the Deputy Foreign Secretary to make a statement on the war in Gaza.] […] George Galloway The Deputy Foreign Secretary’s answers today are virtually identical to those he … Continue reading George Galloway in Parliament
The Scandal of Northern Inequality Nikola Bryce (Workers Party) “Inequalities between our regions are not inevitable. They are a product of policy choices in the design of our economy and democracy…” State of the North – Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) Report 2024 By Nikola Bryce (Workers Party GB Writers Group) In February 2022 the Tories … Continue reading Levelling Up will never happen under the Uniparty
The Workers Party of Britain: is committed to the redistribution of wealth and power in favour of working people. is committed to a reversal of policies aimed at deindustrialisation & to exploring innovative demands for workers control and participation in the future of industry through our trade unions. supports the call for a Net Zero … Continue reading Workers Party of Britain Manifesto—July 2024 Elections
Chris Hedges The ruling by the High Court in London permitting Julian Assange to appeal his extradition order leaves him languishing in precarious health in a high-security prison. That is the point. The decision by the High Court in London to grant Julian Assange the right to appeal the order to extradite him to the … Continue reading The Slow-Motion Execution of Julian Assange Continues
PRESS RELEASE, May 22, 2024 Today the International Criminal Court has been officially called to investigate Ursula von der Leyen for complicity. Reasonable grounds exist to believe that the unconditional support of the President of the European Commission to Israel – military, economic, diplomatic and political – has enabled war crimes and the ongoing genocide … Continue reading Ursula von der Leyen ‘guilty of war crimes’
Unite the Union protests at Labour not pledging to reinstate Workers Rights if elected Labour’s draft New Deal for Workers now “unrecognisable” Wednesday 8 May 2024 Responding to the recent New Deal documents sent to the trade unions by the Labour Party, the leader of Unite Sharon Graham said: “It looks like all the warnings … Continue reading Starmer Against Workers Rights
Sahra Wagenknecht Newsletter May 2024 ‘Labour Affairs’ is pleased to publish the European manifesto and an extract from the party manifesto for the Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW), the new left party in Germany led by Sahra Wagenknecht. In both documents the key points are clearly stated and it is evident that BSW deputies would be … Continue reading News from Germany. The new party steps cautiously forward.
(The photo shows Mosul after its destruction in 2017) "In a roundtable discussion Wednesday [8 May], former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley and Palantir CEO Alex Karp defended Israel’s massacre of Palestinian civilians by advocating military brutality as a general principle. .... “Before we all get self-righteous about what Israel is doing, we … Continue reading Military Brutality as a General Principle in Western Thinking
On 1st April Israel attacked an Iranian consulate in Damascus. 16 people were killed including two senior Iranian generals. This attack was against international law and gave Iran the right to make a retaliatory strike against Israel. But Israel has always made it clear that any attack on Israel would be responded to with even greater force by … Continue reading Israel’s Iranian Dilemma—Editorial
by Eamon Dyas The new definition Although the process had begun much earlier, the change in the definition of antisemitism began to have a direct bearing on the British body politic after Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the Labour Party since 2015, took the party close to government in the 2017 general election. It was only … Continue reading The re-imagining of antisemitism and its implications
Trust me, I'm a scientist! Richard Jones --------------------- Reflections on questions concerning global warming Part 1: introductory --------------------- "Climate change is a multi-billion pound industry" A climate change sceptic --------------------- “Not surprisingly, the flow of information about climate change is dominated by the commercial media, and therefore directed mostly at backing profitable ventures. We see … Continue reading How fast does the deer fly fly?(1)
By Madawc Williams Between any two sovereign states, the only reality is Power Politics. Also true when a region within a sovereign state has a local majority who’d like to secede. And it’s common for both sides in secession struggles to claim that International Law is on their side. To have this repeated with great … Continue reading Secession and Ineffective Law
By Gwydion M. Williams The Strange Death of Free-Market Globalisation Sponge-Up: the Reagan / Thatcher legacy 1688: Parliament Without Democracy Snippets Israel and Iran – Glad to Hate Each Other Come Fly With Me, With Fly-Blown Quality Snow In Belgium, Caused By Global Warming Modi’s India Starmer and the Errors of Ramsay MacDonald Housing Impossible … Continue reading Notes on the News
