A Labour government would officially apologise and pardon the suffragettes for the miscarriages of justice they suffered in fighting for women鈥檚 right to vote in Britain, said Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.
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Thousands of health workers and members of the public joined marches across Britain on February 3 to demand the government act to end the crisis in Britain鈥檚 public National Health Service.
Britain鈥檚 socialist Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn vowed to end Britain鈥檚 rough-sleeping crisis if elected prime minister by 鈥渋mmediately鈥 purchasing 8000 homes for people with a history of sleeping on the streets.
The latest film about former British PM Winston Churchill,聽Darkest Hour, is already being tipped for the Oscars, with Gary Oldman鈥檚 portrayal of Churchill at the helm of speculation.
Oldman鈥檚 performance is indeed brilliant, but let us be clear. While it is a great piece of cinema that, artistically speaking, deserves many awards, it is also a film that glorifies a certifiably vile man.
As Turkey鈥檚 air force bombed the Afrin canton in northern Syria, causing growing civilian casualties in a region that is home to hundreds of thousands of refugees, British Prime Minister Theresa May signed a new deal worth 拢100 million with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on January 28 to help Turkey develop new fighter jets.
By contrast, the socialist leader of the Labour Party opposition, Jeremy Corbyn, sent a message to a protest against Turkey鈥檚 invasion that expressed his solidarity with Afrin and the Kurdish people.
Nobody better reflects the military and political elites鈥 cavalier attitude to nuclear weapons than Sir William Penney, the architect of Britain鈥檚 hydrogen bomb program.
Asked how destructive the new weapons were in meetings in 1961 between US Democrat President John F. Kennedy and British Conservative Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, Penney casually answered by saying: 鈥淚t would take twelve to destroy Australia, Britain five or six, say seven or eight, and I鈥檒l have another gin and tonic, if you would be so kind鈥.
Anti-Trump campaigners claimed victory on January 13 after the US president cancelled a planned visit to London in the face of planned mass protests.
'It's time for a new, democratic, inclusive, equal and united Ireland,' campaigners say in new video
The new campaign has released the video below, narrated by actor Irish actor John Connors. The video says it is time to build a new, democratic, inclusive and United Ireland.
The Billonaires鈥 Club: The Unstoppable Rise of Football鈥檚 Super-Rich Owners
James Montague
Bloomsbury, 2017
330 pages
At this stage of the 2017 English Premier League (EPL) season, it looks like one of the two Manchester teams will win the championship 鈥 and with barely a Mancunian between them. Both Manchester United and Manchester City have overseas owners, overseas managers and overseas-dominated player lists.
Ian Parker has a track record as an ecosocialist political activist in Britain. He is a committed but non-dogmatic Marxist and a psychoanalyst so, unsurprisingly, anything he writes is likely to be serious and challenging.
Despite a strong theoretical and academic background, however, Parker writes in a very engaging and interesting fashion.
Delegates to the recent Labour Party conference in the English seaside town of Brighton seemed not to notice a video playing in the main entrance.聽The world鈥檚 third biggest arms manufacturer, BAe Systems, supplier to Saudi Arabia, was promoting its guns, bombs, missiles, naval ships and fighter aircraft.聽聽
It seemed a perfidious symbol of a party in which millions of Britons now invest their political hopes. Once the preserve of Tony Blair, it is now led by Jeremy Corbyn, whose career has been very different and is rare in British establishment politics.
The world media鈥檚 attention has focused on the very real humanitarian crisis gripping hurricane-ravaged nations in the Caribbean and regions of the United States, but the聽鈥渨orld鈥檚 worst humanitarian catastrophe鈥 (in the words of The New York Times in August) is in Yemen.
The unfolding disaster in Yemen is entirely human-made, is worsening and is the result of policies pursued by the United States and Britain.
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