European Union

Boris Johnson won’t end the Tories’ woes

The fact that Donald Trump has endorsed Boris Johnson for the Tory leadership, telling the Sun newspaper “he would be excellent”, is no surprise

Labour right pressure Corbyn to back a 'people's vote'

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is about to officially back a second Brexit referendum, according to the Daily Mirror newspaper.

Mainstream parties reap fallout of political crisis

The European election results have underlined the political crisis in Britain and the wholesale collapse of the Tories

Far right gain from mainstream crisis

The two “moderate” blocs that have run the European Parliament for decades have seen their control torn away in the recent elections.

Behind the swift rise of the Brexit Party beast

Farage has played clever by bridging class divisions. The left must expose the racism at the heart of it

Euro elections see political crisis, and the racists make some gains

The Brexit Party came first, the Tories took less than 10 percent - and there are questions for Labour. Tommy Robinson lost heavily,

Real fight needed at British Steel to save jobs

22 May 2019
Unions are calling for nationalisation, but winning that will take mass resistance.

Nigel Farage’s Olympia rally - racism just beneath the surface

22 May 2019
At least 3,000 people packed into a Brexit Party rally in central London on Tuesday

Tories could force out Theresa May as support in opinion polls plummets

14 May 2019
Tory support at the European parliament elections—and a possible general election—is collapsing.

The dark side of the Brexit Party that Nigel Farage wants to keep hidden

14 May 2019
Nigel Farage thinks tackling climate change “isn’t terribly intelligent,” wants privatisation in the NHS and calls racist scaremongering over immigration “the truth”.

The Brexit Party aims to strengthen the far right - don’t be a fool for Farage

30 April 2019
There are two common mistakes about Brexit. The first is that it is necessarily a coherent right wing project about achieving an even more radical form of neoliberalism than currently prevails in Britain.

Brexit crisis - Tories say Theresa May has got to go

23 April 2019
Theresa May was facing a growing revolt as Brexit talks with Labour resumed on Tuesday.

European Union’s border plan will put more refugees at risk

23 April 2019
Europe’s rulers are split between those who want stronger external borders and those who back stronger national borders. But all their policies are deadly, says Tomáš Tengely-Evans

Labour is wrong to agree to Tories’ racist plan over Brexit and free movement

09 April 2019
Anti-racists will have to fight major battles to push back the racist and far right challenge in elections and to defend workers’ freedom of movement

Refugees stranded at sea by racist Italian government

04 April 2019
A rescue ship carrying 64 refugees is stuck at sea after the Italian and Maltese governments refused to let it dock on Thursday.

Don’t back bigots in the battle for Brexit

02 April 2019
Labour’s failure to put forward an independent vision for Brexit can allow neoliberal and right wing forces to make the running.

Tory fools are in a Brexit farce as ruling class panic grows

19 March 2019
The Tories’ Brexit crisis has descended further into farce. But behind the absurdity is a deep panic in the ruling class.

LETTERS—Health charges for migrants are racist—scrap all of them

05 March 2019
The treatment of Boysie Folkes shows that the whole system of charging migrants for healthcare and checking people’s immigration status is wrong.