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Analysis of How to Fight Right Wing Populism

Posted on 21 Apr 2024 in Politics

Radical left website RS21 features an essay by Pete Cannell about the rise of populist right wing parties and their links to climate change denialism. He writes "Five decades of neo-liberalism has syphoned money and resources from public to private and increased inequality everywhere so that working class people are anxious or scared about climate, cost of living, war, housing, growing old. The belief that their parents or grandparents had that things would be better for the next generation is dead. Most people don’t trust politicians and find themselves

Gay Tory MP Steps Down After Bribe Issue

Posted on 19 Apr 2024 in Politics

Gay Conservative MP Scott Benton has resigned as a Member of Parliament, a move which will trigger a by election and could see the Tories lose another seat, as they trail the main opposition, Labour, so heavily in the polls at present. The BBC News Chann

Tories Still on for Drubbing Despite Papers

Posted on 16 Apr 2024 in Politics

There is little appetite in the country for a Conservative change of leader, which would yield a new Prime Minister, according to a poll by market research company Opinium quoted in the Guardian newspaper. In particular, the homophobic and transphobic Ke

Countercultural Meeting Place Needs Repairs

Posted on 15 Apr 2024 in Politics

A countercultural and anti-authoritarian meeting space, that has hosted many meetings for the campaign group Lesbians and Gays Support the Migrants, is appealing for funds to help secure the future of the building. The anarchist newspaper Freedom reports that th

US Labor Movement Reaches for Women's Freedom

Posted on 14 Apr 2024 in Politics

The Communist Party of the USA has issued a discussion document prior to its annual convention, looking at the left movement and women's liberation. The document is quite lengthy, but interesting snippets include "In the aftermath of the overturn of Roe v.

Apr

Gay Journalist Owen Quits Labour Over Gaza

Gay journalist and left wing theorist Owen Jones has said that he is to leave the Labour Party and its LGBT Labour Group, over what he said was the party's "race t

Apr

LGBT+ Ally Drakeford Steps Down in Wales

BBC Radio Wales reported on Tuesday 19th March that Mark Drakeford, the First Minister of the Welsh government, took part in his final Question and Answer

Apr

Galloway "No Friend" Of Minorities - JC

Gideon Falter, writing in the Jewish Chronicle newspaper has a firm message for those people that believe that the election of transphobic political maverick George Gallowa

Apr

Shock Levels of MP Abuse - Pink News

Top LGBT+ Newswire Pink News reports that more than three thousand abusive tweets or emails are sent to British Members of Parliament every day. No surprises there, then, we know

Apr

Concern Over Wide Interpretation of Extremism

The bulk of anti-terrorism work in the UK is in fighting radical Islamist organisations, which constitutes around seventy five per cent of time and resources, and the far right wing, including anti