Aislinn O’Keeffe is a member of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland). Spoilt British ‘Royal’ Prince Andrew, who would scream and shout if his collection of teddy bears was disturbed, is now facing civil action in the US, after his friend, the socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, has been found guilty of soliciting and trafficking under-age girls. […]
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Hugh Caffrey is a member of Socialist Alternative (England, Wales & Scotland). Socialist Alternative welcomes the news that former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn may be considering establishing a new left party, on behalf of which he would stand at the next general election as Labour will stand against him. There is no shortage of support […]
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Claire Laker-Mansfield is a member of Socialist Alternative (England, Wales & Scotland). Britain’s ongoing Brexit crisis has entered a new and spectacularly explosive phase. Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government is in a state of chaos. His attempts to regain control, including via the dissolution of parliament, have so-far failed. Johnson’s first week in parliament as […]
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Hugh Caffrey is a member of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales). Liverpool lost one of its greatest ever working-class leaders, and a great family man, when Tony Mulhearn passed away at the age of 80 on 7 October. Tony was in many ways born a class fighter. The appalling poverty of the […]
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For nine weeks, workers at the Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast, where the Titanic was once built occupied the site after the company went into administration, placing skilled jobs at risk. The workers at the shipyard – members of Unite and GMB trade unions – demanded that the government nationalise the yard to safeguard […]
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Connor Rosoman is a member of Socialist Alternative (England, Wales & Scotland). “12 years to save the planet”. Last year, the world received a wake-up call. Leading climate scientists working for the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) predicted that we have only 12 years before global temperatures will have risen by 1.5°C. Going […]
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Peter Hadden is a member of the Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland). August 1969 was a turning point in the history of Northern Ireland. It was then that the Labour Government of Harold Wilson took the decision to send troops onto the streets, first of Derry, then of Belfast. The measure was presented as temporary […]
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Brexit totally absorbs British politics, with chaos in the House of Commons, and both Labour and Tory parties deeply divided, probably irreparably. Britain joined the European Economic Community (forerunner to European Union (EU)) in 1972. There was a left-wing and right-wing opposition to the EU. Those on the right, mainly older and better-off, dream of […]
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Dave Carr is a member of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales). After seven years of self-imposed exile in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was dragged from his place of asylum and arrested by the Metropolitan police. This followed the revoking of his asylum status by Ecuador’s president Lenin […]
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