The council election result in Kensington and Chelsea, as part of England鈥檚 council elections on May 3, was a good indicator of how polarised the political situation is in Britain,听writes Andy Stowe.
Britain
John McDonnell, Labour's shadow chancellor of the Exchequer,听declared Marxism a 鈥渇orce for change today鈥 as he addressed the closing session of a conference in London marking Karl Marx鈥檚 200th birthday on May 5.
McDonnell, a close comrade of Labour's socialist leader Jeremy Corbyn, received stormy applause for a speech in which he paid tribute to the revolutionary thinker and noted that public interest in his ideas had soared since the bankers鈥 crash of 2008.
McDonald鈥檚 workers in Britain called for a 鈥淢cStrike鈥 on May Day to demand three simple things: a听拢10 an听hour minimum wage, the end of zero-hours contracts and the right to unionise, 听said.
Trade unions across the globe mobilised on April 23 to demand the immediate release from prison of former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
In 1792, pioneering British feminist and social justice activist Mary Wollstonecroft wrote in听The Rights of Women: 鈥淚t is justice, not charity that is wanting in the world.鈥
Now, 226 years later, Labour has anchored that fundamental truth in its vision for international development:听.
Ever since his unexpected rise to British Labour Party leader, veteran socialist MP Jeremy Corbyn has faced sustained attacks and smears from the media, Tories and the right-wing of his own party. But over the past month, the attacks have become an unprecedented avalanche.
British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, a long-time supporter of Palestinian rights, posted a that was to be read out April 7 demonstrations across Britain against Israel's latest killings of Palestinians in Gaza. By April 8,听the death toll of Palestinians shot dead by Israeli forces while protesting in Gaza since March 30听 had .
Hunger strikes by detainees at Yarl鈥檚 Wood immigration detention centre in Bedfordshire 鈥 one of 13 detention centres in Britain 鈥 ended after a month on March 22. However, campaigners have vowed to continue protests.
From militant suffragette at the beginning of the 20th century to campaigner against colonialism in Africa after World War II, British Sylvia Pankhurst dedicated her life to fighting oppression and injustice.
In what has proven to be the largest industrial action in the higher education sector in recent history, the University and College Union (UCU) launched the first day of strike action across Britain on February 22.
Striking against planned cuts to the pension schemes of academic staff, staff and students took collective action on 61 different universities across the country.
Sir Alex Ferguson was deeply affronted by the Manchester United Football Club supporters who got stroppy about the proposed takeover of the huge English Premier League club he then managed by the US corporate raider, Malcolm Glazer, in 2004.
鈥淭hey carried on to the degree where they actually thought they should have a say in the running of the football club,鈥 exclaimed the outraged manager.
Ferguson got to the core of things by starkly asking just whose club it is.
The British government sold spying equipment worth more than 拢300,000 to the right-wing Honduran regime implicated in mass human rights abuses, including the assassination听of high-profile environmental activist Berta Caceres.
The sale of the spyware came in the year preceding Honduras鈥檚 November 2017 presidential election, which was听.
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