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Will Labour Carry On with Hostile Policy?

Posted on 24 Jul 2024 in Politics

Andy Greene, a disability activist, writes in the anarchist quarterly newspaper Freedom that the endgame of the Conservative government includes brutal attacks on disabled people and people not well enough to work. Andy writes "Doubling down on expanding the hostile environment tactic, the government and the DWP has created for claimants, reforms include removing the ability of GP’s to confirm people’s inability to work, taking away disability benefits from people in mental distress, taking away benefits from anyone claiming for more than 12 months and end

Reactionary Policy Was at End of Tory Govt

Posted on 23 Jul 2024 in Politics

The left wing weekly paper Socialist Worker says that "Teachers, parents and students must rebel against the bigoted and dangerous new guidelines to ensure every child has access to proper sex education." The paper says "The government is set to ban explicit sex education until

General Election Discussion Special -Briefing

Posted on 18 Jul 2024 in Politics

ON Thursday 18th July, "ShoutOut" broadcast a discussion on the new Parliament and government elected at the General Election two weeks previously. It was a fascinating discussion. Here is the briefing document our panel had prepared for them, to which they could refer during the discus

Concern that Labour MP Meets Fringe Group

Posted on 16 Jul 2024 in Politics

LGBT Labour, the main campaign group for our community in the Labour Party, has expressed its concern over a decision made by Labour MP Anneliese Dodds, to meet a fringe anti-equality organisation. Dodds has announced a plan to meet with a group which calls itse

Workers Party Capitulates to Religious Right

Posted on 12 Jul 2024 in Politics

Experienced Marxist and communist activist Carla Roberts is under no illusions about fake socialist George Galloway's capitulation to social conservatism, religious conservatism and homophobia after his astonishing interview with media outlet Novara Media at the time of the local

Jul

Conservative Attacks on Protest Right Slammed

As the government continues its authoritarian drift, LGBTQIA+ activists have added their voices to concern over efforts by the right wing in Britain to label progressive political campaign groups a

Jul

Forty Years Since Miner's LGBT+ Solidarity

Socialist quarterly magazine Tribune, which has been a voice on the Labour Party's left for nearly a century, commemorates the fortieth anniversary of the vicious Miner's D

Jul

Failed PM Truss Manifesto Fails to Ignite

Ralph Leonard writing at the secularist online magazine The Freethinker has little time for the memoirs of the shortest incumbent Prime Minister in UK history, Liz Truss, who has p

Jul

Voting Continues in UK General Election

As we go out live tonight on some of our family of community radio stations, we are just hours away from the end of General Election Day. The people of Great Britain are electing a new Parliament

Jun

"Endgame" for Conservative Party's Britain

The Trotskyist group Workers Power editorialises in the latest edition of its newspaper on what they call the "end game" for Conservative Britain after the fiasco of the main centr