Every socialist dreams of winning a better and fairer world, one which isn’t run in the interests of the rich. But that doesn’t mean our dreams are simply “fantasy” as former Labour shadow chancellor Ed Balls suggested this week.
South African athlete Caster Semenya won the women’s 800 metre gold medal at the Olympics.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn struck fear into Britain’s rulers when he said he would avoid war if a Nato ally was attacked.
This week four years ago South African police gunned down 34 striking mine workers at the Lonmin corporation’s Marikana mine.
Tom Watson’s dossier on “Trotsky entryists” into the Labour Party has been used as an attack on the whole left.
The Tories could open new grammar schools. The right wing press eagerly explained that this is part of Theresa May’s drive to boost “social mobility”.
One thing the surge in support for Jeremy Corbyn shows is that working class people are seething with anger against politicians and the bosses.
Jeremy Corbyn’s critics inside the Labour Party have perfected missing the point.
Politicians have learned nothing from the Chilcot report.
The leader of the Labour Party called on his supporters last week to join him in building a “social movement” that can force change through parliament.
Young adults in some parts of sub-Saharan Africa are on average 5cm shorter than their counterparts 40 years ago, revealed an extraordinary study released this week.
For our rulers, ordinary people are best seen and not heard. They want us to accept politics as a spectator sport, and to take as little part in it as possible.
