COMMENT
Alan Simpson is alarmed at Labour’s deafening silence
Jackie Walker looks in despair at the lessons Labour failed to learn in Batley and Spen
REPORTS
As soon as Keir Starmer became leader of the party, efforts to crush local grassroots democracy in Chingford and Woodford Green escalated.
The JLM seemed to treat these sessions as recruitment rather than educational opportunities.
A COP'S COPYCAT KILLING of a Rom in the Czech Republic has set off protests around Europe, and as far as New York - not on the scale of the Black Lives Matter movement, but they are the biggest street actions yet organised by Roma activists.
Jackie Walker looks in despair at the lessons Labour failed to learn in Batley and Spen
REVIEWS
Usually, when reviewing a book, I try to bring out the best in what the author has written. In the case of David Renton’s book there is literally nothing in it worthy of praise. It is dishonest and selective in its facts and ignores that Black and Muslim people were the main victims of the ‘anti-Semitism’ witchhunt.
The EHRC wound up blaming Corbyn’s leadership for failures which are much more plausibly attributed to its bitter factional opponents.
Any real assessment of the Corbyn years would look, for instance, at how the party leadership acted towards those industrial disputes which did take place in the period, especially as Corbyn and McDonnell were well known as being among the very few MPs who had given support to strikes throughout their political lives.
Voters in the North have been used again for the advantage of parts of the British establishment.
Haim analyses Israeli society by looking at what is most representative of it - the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF), the largest, richest and best supported organisation in Israel, what he calls the “centre of Israeli existence