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Alex Callinicos answers the question

It’s Johnson’s time to go

Historic achievement for Sinn Fein

P&O sackings, border controls, Tory incompetence—a dire mess

Boris Johnson won the 2019 general election by promising to “get Brexit done”. Like all his other promises, this was broken.

It has been 175 years since the repeal of the Corn Laws. Isabel Ringrose explores how the bosses’ arguments over trade can open the door for working class resistance

Why did the Northern Ireland protocol to the Brexit agreement between Britain and the European Union figure so large at the G7 summit in Cornwall?

Tory Brexit and bigotry are making for a potentially dangerous situation in Northern Ireland.

Farcical aspects aside, the row over the European Union’s vaccine supplies reveals the inability of the present system to manage the Covid-19 pandemic.

Tory claims about an approaching glorious future after the trade deal with the European Union are nonsense.  

It’s impossible at this stage to give a proper analysis of the new Brexit deal. But here are five articles that give the background.

It has been a difficult second lockdown for Boris Johnson. Currently self-isolating in Downing Street, he has been struggling with two huge challenges. On the one hand his negligent policies have meant there is little prospect of an end to the covid19 pandemic any time soon, despite the promise of a vaccine. The Tories have...

The chaotic Tory handling of Brexit limps on towards further potential disasters

Whether or not there is a trade deal between Britain and the European Union, we will experience a hard Brexit, with a fair degree of economic disruption. Such an outcome was not inevitable

The Tories and Boris Johnson desperately continued their faltering attempts to broker a Brexit trade deal this week.

It’s anyone’s guess whether Britain and the European Union (EU) can reach an agreement on their new trading relationship, which is due to start on 1 January. 

Faced with the twin crises of the Covid-19 pandemic and the looming Brexit deadline it is looking increasingly likely that Boris Johnson’s premiership is beginning to unravel. His criminal incompetence on the former is now being compounded by the chaos of the different tiers of lockdown he is attempting to impose, while his brinkmanship on...

Weak and nasty” has been a good description of all Tory governments since the fall of Margaret Thatcher nearly 30 years ago. None fit this description better than Boris Johnson’s administration.

International law helps to regulate the relations between capitalist states. It plays an increasingly important role in providing a framework for the activities of transnational corporation

Left Out is a book for people who think Keir Starmer is doing a good job. But it also holds some valuable lessons for genuine socialists—and hard truths about the Labour Party.

A year ago Brexit dominated the headlines to the point of utter tedium. Now, of course, it’s the Covid-19 pandemic, which is too deadly to tolerate boredom. But Brexit is mounting a comeback, with a vengeance.

The Tories’ new points-based system comes alongside brutal attacks on refugees, writes Sophie Squire

Hundreds of workers at the Nissan car plant in Sunderland protested on Saturday against attacks on their pension scheme.

As Jeremy Corbyn ends his time as Labour leader, Nick Clark looks at the impact he has had—and why any attempts by Labour to change the system will be limited