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  • UK involved in US seizure of Russian oil tanker.

    Another layer to Trump’s war for global hegemony. Why should anybody else, the UK Included, get involved in this adventure across the high seas? Inevitably, “No 10 said it would…


  • Jeremy Corbyn to stand as Independent in Islington North.

    This is desperately sad https://x.com/jeremycorbyn/status/1793899852624953398 It is not to grasp the former Labour leader’s reasons. He has been treated shabbily.Apart from not agreeing with the decision to stand one thing…


  • John McDonnell. A labour movement agenda for a Labour government.

    It is no secret that the Tendance is close to McDonnell ‘s politics.


  • Iran after the death of Ebrahim Raisi.

    https://x.com/yashar/status/1792412243679912436 https://x.com/omid9/status/1792488937631453638 There is a great deal more on X https://x.com/AlinejadMasih/status/1792495207277044067 https://x.com/MaryamNamazie/status/1792491080161583487 Also worth noting in the Middle East, divisions in Hamas. https://x.com/arash_tehran/status/1792537513954779609


  • Statement on the 2013 crisis in the SWP.

    Saw this in a number of places and initially thought, surely not! This judgement is well true, it’s not been forgotten https://x.com/LiamMacU/status/1791228221851148469


  • Julie Ward on Israel and Gaza.

    https://x.com/UkraineSol/status/1789708378354184424


  • Chartist on the Labour Party.

    As a Chartist supporter I agree with this. There are obviously things to add after the most recent Tory defection. I did not expect my old Pabloite comrade to be…


  • Israel’s assault on Gaza. How should the left react?

    The AWL have a thought out stand on this which should be read not shouted down.


  • Galloway fails to get his Front going.

    George Galloway’s disappointing performance in the local elections in Rochdale is discussed in the blog post. For more details, visit the link: https://shirazsocialism.wordpress.com/2024/05/06/local-elections-galloways-rochdale-flop


  • Ukraine updates.

    Recommended campaign


  • Suffolk’s leading conservative intellectual, and Reform stalwart on Dan Poulter joining Labour.

    This is too funny to ignore. The chaps at Kev’s Golf Club are spluttering into their pink gins. Tomorrow’s pheasant shoot will be lively!


  • Jim on Gideon Falter.

    Jim and his comrades in Solidarity are amongst those on the left who’ve kept their nerve during the recent Gaza crisis. While condemning Israel’s atrocities and attending protests against them…


  • Galloway’s Workers Party of Britain to stand against John McDonnell.

    Brown Workers Party of Britain to stand against leading left winger in next election. https://x.com/David__Osland/status/1782729370475335720 https://x.com/Pabloite/status/1782763717509181612 It seems all Labour MPs are targets for this brown brown front. it will…


  • Galloway plumbs new depths.

    Did you ever in your puff see such a frightful perisher as Galloway and his green and brown shorts ? gshttps://x.com/paulwaugh/status/1782147992553697562 use Galloway and the Lib Dems, a merry tale…


  • Farage, Braverman and …Eric Zemmour.

    There are lots of reports on the, ‘cancelled’, National Conservative meeting in Brussels. Coverage in the UK has focused on the one time Brexit Party leader and the one time…


  • A Century of Labour. John Cruddas.

    An important review by a comrade who really knows his labour movement history. The critical comments on what is known as ‘communiarian’ philosophy, no more in fashion than Blue Labour,…


  • Gaza, Ukraine and the left.

    Oakland Socialist is US blog which has gained an audience outside of America.Its views are often similar to the European internationalist left. It is always worth reading.


  • On Ukraine, from Shiraz.

    The article discusses the interconnections between the situations in Palestine and Ukraine, highlighting the common struggles against imperial powers. It provides valuable insights that should be widely disseminated. For more…


  • Rochdale. Galloway’s gang standing far right candidate.

    https://x.com/Searchlight_mag/status/1776565909886255458 Big shot Galloway is standing 13 candidates, (20 are up for the vote) in the Rochdale local elections this May. His old muckers from TUSC have helpfully not put…


  • Labour and the Greens.

    In East Anglia the Green Party is a force in many District councils . They control Mid Suffolk. They are not noticably left wing and will tell anybody who asks,…


  • Tom Hunt Ipswich Tory MP.

    Hunt stickers all around here Tom Hunt far right apologist. https://x.com/Pabloite/status/1774776488467849599?s=20



  • Owen Jones. From Jim.

    Good analysis. Owen has suffered so much abuse I have not posted. But he politically is going nowhere.



  • Stand with Diane Abbott.

    Important. Her treatment is intolerable.


  • Woodbridge toff Kev leaves Tories and joins far right Reform UK.

    The East Anglian political scene is still under the shock. Top Suffolk Tory joins far party.


  • Poverty and repression. Chartist.

    Essential reading. Prem Sikka.


  • Armed Road, Only Road – IMG (1970s).

    Watching Trevor Phillips on the telly this morning brought back some happy memories of his student union days. He was the leader in London, later nationally, of the NUS, of…


  • From the archives.George Galloway goes Red-Brown and backs Farage’s Brexit Party.

    Galloway Goes Red-Brown. The Red-Brown alliance develops, George Galloway is to back Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party for the Euro-elections. Following the lead of former rivals, the ex-Revolutionary Communist Party/Spiked/Institute of…


  • Marine Le Pen and the RN’s secret crush on Trump.

    One of the paradoxical aspects of right-wing-nationalist and sovereigntist parties is their willingness to align with forces, above all politically successful forces, in other countries. Often with whose interests do…


  • Labour ‘figure’ to join Reform, boasts Farage.

    To be joined by Labour renegade? Jenrick says he hopes his defection .to Reform UK will ‘unite the right’ after Badenoch says he ‘tells a lot of lies’ . In the…


  • Your Party, the SWP and the Socialist Party.

    A few days ago Sky carried this story: Your Party hit by new split as Corbyn and Sultana battle for control. The left wing party’s co-founders want to fill its…


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