Back from a women’s delegation to northern Syria in 2018, Sarah Glynn reports on her visit A common defence of liberal democracy is that other systems are worse. Most people’s engagement in the political process is limited to putting a cross in a box every few years, but inability to affect the forces that shape […]
Dave Sherry says the systemic roots of the crisis lie in the economic system we live under To a great media fanfare, the UN climate change conference drew to a close in December with nothing agreed that could even pretend to avert climate catastrophe. Representatives from 200 countries gathered in Katowice, Poland, for two weeks […]
Aamer Anwar explains why his death must be the subject of a public inquiry Sheku Ahmed Tejan Bayoh was a well-liked, hard-working young man, with no previous history of violence, when he died age 31. He was a loving partner and proud father of 4 month old, Isaac, and 3 year old, Tyler. Sheku moved […]
George Kerevan sets out his socialist position in the context of the contradictions of capitalism WHAT position should socialists advance regarding optimal trade arrangements with the rest of Europe, in the event Britain does quit the EU? Let’s leave aside the tactical debate on the efficacy of a second Brexit vote, or the fraught arguments […]
Jim Sillars say capital rules the roost in the EU so the only way is out In requesting views on preferred options ‘after Britain has left the EU’, the editor has almost asked for the impossible as no one knows what Brexit will mean until a deal is struck and we can study the details. […]
Neil Findlay articulates Labour’s position The next few weeks and months will see the culmination of a forty-year civil war amongst Tories. From the days of Heath taking us into the Common Market, Thatcher signing the Single European Act, Major the Maastricht treaty and Cameron’s referendum dilemma, each has faced a hostile onslaught of criticism […]
Molly Scott Cato makes the case for stopping a disaster by having a ‘People’s Vote’ ‘Brexit means Brexit’ declared Theresa May. Though what exactly Brexit means depends, of course, on who you speak to. What is clear is that there is no version which commands majority support in Parliament, let alone any version that is […]
Mick Whelan lays out why his union supported Brexit and what it expects from the negotiations ASLEF backed Brexit – the campaign to leave the European Union – in the referendum in Britain in 2016. Not because we wanted to stand shoulder to shoulder with Nigel Farage – a man memorably described by The Economist […]
Steven Agnew argues that only avoiding Brexit can resolve the border issue in Ireland It’s now been around 850 days since the EU referendum and there is still no agreement as to what ‘no hard border’ means in practice. And yet, the Brexiteers promised us that it would all be so simple. That, as Tory […]
Jane Carolan examines the consequences of the neo-liberal EU for workers’ rights What do you want? Do you favour a Chequers Brexit or a ‘no deal’ deal? Should it be Canada plus or WTO rules? Another choice is another referendum, in the hope that a rerun will produce a different result from 2016. Bombarded by […]