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Neil Faulkner writes: Note to self: when it comes to the Labour Party, expect the unexpected. Like everyone else, I was astonished when Corbyn first surged to victory in the Labour leadership election back in September 2015. I must confess to further astonishment at the leaked Labour election manifesto. Few of us are privy to […] Read more »

A report from the Mental Health frontline appraises the Conservative Party’s announcements on mental health reform. If you were to believe Tory party statements around NHS mental health care over the past few years you would almost think that standards of mental health care, service user satisfaction and staff morale would be positive and on […] Read more »

Declaration by Pierre Laurent: French Communists call for left unity to block the road to Macron’s counter-reforms and the Front National This evening, the candidate of the Front National has been soundly beaten. This is a great relief. Sixty five percent of the voters did not want the head of the state to be someone […] Read more »

Susan Pashkoff looks at the politics of recent elections As has been evident from the election results that we have seen in the States, the Presidential elections in France, the Netherlands, and Austria, and the Brexit referendum in Britain we are seeing a polarised electorate which is impacting upon the votes for centre-right and centre-left candidates […] Read more »

The worst has been avoided – time for a Defiant Left! Voters have rejected the immediate danger of the right-wing taking power and what it would have entailed: challenging fundamental freedoms, rolling-back democratic and social rights, persecuting foreigners, ‘preference nationale’ or putting the ‘French first’ in a bid to whip up racism … Nearly 11 […] Read more »

Nick Jones looks at some of the responses from the French left to the Presidential election results tonight   The far right allies of the Front National have little to celebrate this evening as yet another country rejects the politics of division and hate. The latest election analysis from Ipsos Sopra Steria suggests a strong […] Read more »

HERE TO STAY!  HERE TO FIGHT! by David Landau The question of immigration will be central to this General Election, whether immigration is talked about directly or indirectly in the debate about Brexit.  Theresa May insists that the election is about Brexit – ‘strengthening my hand in negotiating with the leaders of 27 countries’.  But […] Read more »

Phil Hearse on the results of the recent local and mayoral elections The huge Labour losses in the local council elections are just what the Labour Right was hoping for. Peter Mandelson said as much late last year, when he stated he was hoping for Theresa May to call an early election that would result […] Read more »

Statement by the French Communist Party on the presidential election calling for a vote against Le Pen and unity discussions on the left. The second round of the French presidential election will be a contest between the racist and xenophobic candidate of the far right, Marine Le Pen, and Emmanuel Macron, the candidate selected by […] Read more »

Following the Foreign Secretary’s talk of attacking Syria, Left Unity Principal Speaker, Joseph Healy, said: “At a time when the prospect of nuclear war hangs over North East Asia, Boris Johnson has decided to sound the war drums over Syria. Not only that but he seriously proposes to bypass Parliament with any such decision! Has […] Read more »