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What did the hippies do for us? Corbyn at Glastonbury

Glastonbury Festival is a yearly UK five-day festival of contemporary performing arts that takes place in a farm (mud, lots of mud!) near Somerset in June. In addition to contemporary music, the festival hosts dance, comedy, theatre, circus, cabaret, and…

Democracy and decentralisation are their watchwords

For Corbyn and McDonnell, it’s municipal socialism reinvented By JOE GUINAN and THOMAS HANNA 25 March 2016 for OpenDemocracy Corbyn and McDonnell’s vision of decentralised public ownership comes from a long and popular tradition. Labour’s leaders are creating a new…

UK budget: Austerity continues as Trident spending rises

Former UN weapons inspector Hans Blix said in 2013 that ‘the UK will not be more protected if it extends life of Trident [the UK’s nuclear weapons system], at a cost of £100bn.’ ‘Delivering the 2013 Joseph Rotblat lecture to…

London sees the biggest anti-nuclear weapons demo in a generation

Thousands braved the cold today to express their opposition to the renewal of Trident, the nuclear weapons system many deluded people believe will keep them ‘safe’. We are reminded of the the story of two men in a car, one…

Labour chief calls for UK role in nuclear de-escalation

Leader of UK Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn says Britain should not carry nukes on submarines and show its resolve for nuclear “de-escalation.” Corbyn told the state-run BBC on Sunday that the UK could keep its controversial Trident submarine fleet but…

The Corbyn in Plato’s cave

Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the British Labour Party is under attack, again. It is really a testimony to his resilience that he is not only going ahead with the real agenda of trying to undo the draconian damage being…

The Precariat: A new term for Economic Violence

We know about the proletariat, aka the manual workers. The term comes from the Roman Empire’s five yearly census of citizens and their property. For those who had none their children, or proles, were their only asset, hence the name…

Jeremy Corbyn is not Marty McFly (but the Ayes have it)

The UK Parliament debates bombing Syria. The debate in the House of Commons is raging as we speak. Up to 20 % of Tory MPs may rebel against UK Prime Minister Cameron and vote against bombing Syria, whilst Labour has…

Insults instead of a clear strategy. Prime Minister Cameron v Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn

Not having managed to make a clear case for bombing Syria the UK Prime Minister resorts to insulting the leader of the opposition and others proposing a different strategy to defeat Isil by calling them “terrorist sympathisers” ahead of tomorrow’s…

Jeremy Corbyn refuses to support bombing Syria

In a letter to the Parliamentary Labour Party its Leader Jeremy Corbyn says: “The Prime Minister made a Statement to the House today making the case for a UK bombing campaign against ISIS in Syria. A copy of my response…

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