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Letters—NHS workers say the Tories are lying to us and laughing at us

NHS workers speak out against Tories
13 December 2021
A warning sign: Fortress Europe
Features

Belarus-Poland: one example of borders that kill

The Polish state and the European Union have adopted the anti-migrant attitude of the far right
15 November 2021
Capitalism will not solve energy squeeze
Alex Callinicos

Capitalism will not solve energy squeeze

Energy is what the political economist Simon Bromley called a “strategic commodity”. In other words, a state that controls access to it has power over other states.
12 October 2021
Biden ramps up new arms race with China
Alex Callinicos

Biden ramps up new arms race with China

Aukus is the agreement by the United States and Britain to supply Australia with the technology to build eight nuclear submarines.
21 September 2021
Europe’s imperialism is still reliant on US
Alex Callinicos

Europe’s imperialism is still reliant on US

The Western ruling classes’ response to the entirely predictable Taliban victory in Afghanistan is astonishing—combining arrogance, self-deception, and panic.
07 September 2021
New bill will let Tories hand millions to their mates
News

New bill will let Tories hand millions to their mates

The Tories have announced a new way to shower private businesses with huge handouts from public funds.
30 June 2021
Resist racist Tory rules
What We Think

Resist racist Tory rules

EU citizens and refugees are feeling the sharp impact of the Tories’ racist immigration clampdown. This Wednesday was the deadline for EU citizens to apply to the EU Settlement Scheme, which protects rights such as employment and healthcare in Britain.
29 June 2021
Nine Catalan political prisoners freed, but the struggle is far from over
International

Nine Catalan political prisoners freed, but the struggle is far from over

The nine were arrested in the wake of the 2017 Catalan independence referendum for their involvement in organising the vote, demonstrations and mass civil disobedience.
22 June 2021
Tories push racist myths to divide—open borders for all
What We Think

Tories push racist myths to divide—open borders for all

The deadline for European Union citizens to apply for the EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS) on 31 June is drawing steadily nearer.
01 June 2021
Over 2,000 refugees die after EU state pushbacks
News

Over 2,000 refugees die after EU state pushbacks

More than 2,000 refugees have died during the pandemic as a result of illegal pushbacks by countries in the European Union (EU).
06 May 2021
Neoliberalism is alive and useful to rulers
Alex Callinicos

Neoliberalism is alive and useful to rulers

Is neoliberalism over? This is what many of its defenders are beginning to fear. Chris Giles, the economics editor of the Financial Times, recently lamented, “The left is winning the economic battle of ideas.”
04 May 2021
The European Union paid and trained the military thugs in Myanmar
News

The European Union paid and trained the military thugs in Myanmar

The EU provided more than £35 million to the Myanmar police between 2016 and 2021
28 April 2021
EU risks lives to cut the risk of losing money
Alex Callinicos

EU risks lives to cut the risk of losing money

The European Commission exploits every crisis to increase its own powers. It seized control of the vaccine procurement programme but bungled it.
23 March 2021
Workers won’t benefit if Covid and racism drive out migrants
Features

Workers won’t benefit if Covid and racism drive out migrants

Reports have found that large numbers of migrants are leaving Britain. It’s all caused by the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic—and a punishing immigration system, argues Sam Ord
01 March 2021
Is the City losing its financial domination?
Alex Callinicos

Is the City losing its financial domination?

Is world history going into reverse? The great historian Fernand Braudel argued that the modern capitalist world economy always has had a city at its centre, starting in the later Middle Ages with Venice.
16 February 2021
Bankers’ and bosses’ man asked to take over in Italy
International

Bankers’ and bosses’ man asked to take over in Italy

Italy's rulers want to install a technocrat to push through measures they cannot impose by normal means
05 February 2021
Vaccine nationalism will endanger us all
Alex Callinicos

Vaccine nationalism will endanger us all

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.
02 February 2021
Protests in Russia take aim at Putin and poverty
International

Protests in Russia take aim at Putin and poverty

Alexei Navalny supporters are on the streets but have no more to offer working people than Vladimir Putin
01 February 2021
Five articles on Brexit
News

Five articles on Brexit

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.
24 December 2020
Ordinary people forced to pay for politicians’ Brexit wrangling
News

Ordinary people forced to pay for politicians’ Brexit wrangling

The chaotic Tory handling of Brexit limps on towards further potential disasters
14 December 2020
The political choices behind hard Brexit
Alex Callinicos

The political choices behind hard Brexit

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
14 December 2020
EU border agency accused of brutality against migrants seeking safety
News

EU border agency accused of brutality against migrants seeking safety

A body that patrols the EU’s external borders has been accused of unlawfully turning migrants away and sending them back to Turkey. 
07 December 2020
Brexit could have meant more than this
News

Brexit could have meant more than this

The Tories and Boris Johnson desperately continued their faltering attempts to broker a Brexit trade deal this week.
07 December 2020
‘A massacre at Europe’s borders’ as over 100 refugees are drowned
International

‘A massacre at Europe’s borders’ as over 100 refugees are drowned

More than 110 refugees died in the space of three days in the Mediterranean Sea last week
16 November 2020