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Leeds Housing Conference

a report from Nick Jones Around 60 people attended the Leeds Hands Off Our Homes Housing Summit in Leeds on Saturday 12th March. Quintin Bradley explained that the law. “Public money subsidy would be transferred from people on low incomes to people on high incomes. “The main plank of this policy is to stop the […] Read more »


The Archbishop’s Fears

by Matt Carr One of the most depressing and inane themes in the great British ‘debate’ about immigration is the idea that there is no debate about immigration. It’s a refrain emanating mostly from the right, which has been replayed for years like a stuck record.  It goes essentially like this; ‘we’ aren’t allowed to speak about  immigration […] Read more »


Brexit and the British Left

A debate between Joseph Choonara and Pete Green The forthcoming referendum has provoked a significant discussion inside the British Left. Phil Butland talked to two leading figures on the left about how socialists should respond to the referendum. Joseph Choonara is a leading member of the Socialist Workers’ Party (SWP)  and the author of a new […] Read more »


Europe: the return of the beast

by Matt Carr In every era and in every society, there are those who would like to do to the left what the Chilean army once did to Victor Jara, or what the Freikorps did to Karl Liebnecht and Rosa Luxemburg.  It used to be common in Greece for Golden Dawn militants to taunt leftist anti-fascists by […] Read more »


The refugee crisis – war and poverty to blame

Simon Hardy argues we need solidarity and open borders to deal with the refugee humanitarian crisis Read more »


Pride march in London in pictures

Over 30,000 people attended Pride in London on 27 June, with many thousands more lining the streets in support. Read more »


Capita awarded lucrative NHS contract by Tories

A huge NHS contract has just been awarded to Capita, something we should all be worried about, writes Simon Hardy Read more »


The people fight back! Mass anti-austerity demonstration shows defiance to Tories

Simon Hardy reports from the 20 June demonstration – with a video and some pictures from the day Read more »


The election was the latest stage in the crisis of Britain’s electoral system

Kate Hudson analyses the significant factors of the election, and looks at the way forward. Read more »


The Tories won on a lie

Labour avoided the hard arguments and suffered the consequences, writes Simon Hardy Read more »



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