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Aliyah Hasinah who with others helped organise the Black Lives Matter protest in Birmingham  looks at the future of the movement – via ART!VIST UK. #BLMBrum at New Street, Birmingham. Photo Credit: Shyheim Prince Yesterday something went down in Brumtown. At 12pm a little outside the Bullring’s private property we stood in solidarity. In solidarity […] Read more »

Steve Jefferys looks at the industrial accident in Birimngham in which 5 workers from the Gambia lost their lives The Birmingham scrap metal business tragedy in which five men lost their lives was found ‘shocking’ by the Prime Minister. None of the reports I have seen, however, refer to the curious fact that five workers […] Read more »

Neil Faulkner writes: As the post-referendum debate continues, a number of articles make the case that the Leave vote was a class vote and a left-wing victory. One argues that ‘the tinder that was building at the base of society’ has now ‘caught fire’, and that ‘the political establishment has lost contact with the masses’. […] Read more »

Kate Hudson writes: Acknowledgement is long overdue that our government took us to war in Iraq on the basis of deception and a breach of international law. These twin factors have been fundamental to public concern about government behaviour, and were central to the mass opposition to the war. Firstly the question of deception: The […] Read more »

Neil Faulkner writes – It took the Brexit racism of Johnson, Gove, and Farage to make the EU popular. Some 50,000 people wanted to demonstrate on Tuesday night until the organisers caved in to police pressure and called it off. Some thousands still turned up. Now at least 50,000 have actually demonstrated, marching from Hyde […] Read more »

Andrew Burgin As the referendum result was announced at Glastonbury Festival there were spontaneous demonstrations by young festival goers, hugely dismayed at the outcome. Many of those protesting won’t have voted – only 36% of 18-24 years olds went to the ballot box – but those that did voted in overwhelming numbers for Remain. Many […] Read more »

Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Mexico City last Sunday (26 June) to protest the killing of at least 11 teachers and student teachers who are fighting the government’s reactionary educational ‘reform’. Students and their parents joined the teachers, as did telecommunication workers, striking medical workers, oil workers and lecturers from […] Read more »

Neil Faulkner writes: Parts of the Left are in denial about the Brexit vote. Many socialists campaigned for Leave on the basis that the EU is controlled by bankers and bureaucrats, that it is hard-wired for austerity, privatisation, and financialisation, and that a crisis for this mega-project of the political and corporate elite would be […] Read more »

Dave Landau from Islington Left Unity reports on the shocking escalation in hate crime since the referendum The Referendum campaign was from the outset poisonous and immigration was always at its centre.  Cameron was bounced into promising a referendum by pressure from UKIP riding a wave of anti-migrant sentiment. On both sides the mainstream campaigns […] Read more »

Britain faces a deep political crisis following the Referendum. The far right is resurgent, the Conservative Party is heading in a more right-wing direction, Jeremy Corbyn faces a coup from within his own party, and there has been a significant increase in racist and xenophobic abuse. Millions of us want to resist this turn to […] Read more »