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By Tom O’Leary Following the Brexit vote here and the victory of Trump in the US Presidential election there has been much ill-informed discussion of the ‘left behind’, sometimes spuriously described as the white working class who have not benefitted from rising living standards, or even globalisation in general. Read more »

Walter Baier writes: Donald Trump, a relentless right-wing populist, outed as a sexist defender of rape culture, becoming the 45th president of the US proves that the rise of right radicalism is not confined to a number of states and regions and is not just a European issue but rather is the expression of a global […] Read more »

Principal Speaker Felicity Dowling looks at the conditions of the American people which led them to vote for Donald Trump. Read more »

The film of the 1930s is running in slow motion. Across Europe, and now in the United States with the Trump victory, far right, racist politics are winning significant levels of popular support from across the economic spectrum – with support from affluent whites being crucial to Trump’s victory.  Millions are now supporting right wing […] Read more »

Oliver New, Chair of Ealing Save Our NHS writes. Grass roots campaigns to defend services are springing up everywhere, as well as national organisations like Health Campaigns Together and Keep Our NHS Public, which both have excellent websites. Led by social criminal Jeremy Hunt, the May Government is seamlessly carrying on from the Cameron team […] Read more »

Steve Freeman reports on the march against library closures. On Saturday 5 November thousands marched from the British Library in central London to Trafalgar Square to protest against library closures, part of the fight to defend culture, education and the public right to have free access to these cultural resources. Read more »

Michael Roberts on the problems facing British capitalism Class, the left-wing British think-tank, funded by the trade unions, held its second major meeting to discuss the state of the British economy and society and the policies to deal with it. The theme title was ‘Britain at the Crossroads’ and, naturally, the issue of Brexit dominated […] Read more »

Phil Hearse reports on the latest wave of arrests in Turkey. Turkish police arrested November 2 the two co-chairs of the left-wing, pro-Kurdish, HDP (Peoples Democratic Party), and nine other HDP MPs. Arrest warrants for all the party’s 59 MPs have been issued. After the raids to arrest Demirtas and Yüksekdag, it was reported that the […] Read more »

Felicity Dowling writes Storm clouds are gathering over our National Health Service. Yet when campaigning on the streets, there is overwhelming support for the NHS. It is the issue that most concerns people at present according to this survey. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/oct/09/nhs-is-most-widely-held-concern-of-uk-adults-survey-finds This is a new era for campaigning. Once if there were demonstrations marches, pickets, petitions […] Read more »

Glyn Robbins appeals for people to attend the Axe the Housing Act summit this coming Saturday The growing mess around the Housing and Planning Act partly results from a failure to relate abstract policy to peoples’ everyday lives. Here are some examples of how things would have been different on the council estate where I […] Read more »