Terrible violence marred last Sunday’s protest against the Tories in Manchester. It was a sorry day for the movement against austerity.
The Tories think they are born to rule—and sometimes it seems like nothing can bring them down.
Steel giant SSI’s decision to mothball its Redcar plant and throw 1,700 workers on the dole is a disgrace. The company whined that it wasn’t making enough profits.
The Tories and their friends have tried their best to shrug off Lord Ashcroft’s allegation about David Cameron and the pig. They have failed.
The Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky compared in his History of the Russian Revolution the diaries of the French king and the Russian tsar in the period leading up to their respective overthrows.
Something has changed in British politics and it was captured in a single day last week.
David Cameron suffered his first defeat in the House of Commons on Monday of this week just four months after the general election.
There is a sea change sweeping through British politics. The cruel scapegoating of refugees has briefly paused.
Many politicians would have us believe that working class people are racist. They say they talk about immigration so much to address people’s “real concerns”.
Jeremy Corbyn’s campaign for the Labour leadership has captured ordinary people’s deep-seated anger with the austerity consensus.
The panic that spread through financial markets at the start of this week exposed the volatility of the system (see page 3). For all the talk of “recovery” capitalism is fragile.
It was wonderful to see thousands of migrants burst through the outer defences of Fortress Europe last Saturday.
