Britain

Jeremy Corbyn at Glastonbury Festival: 'We have only one planet, young people will not be silenced'

After winning 30 extra seats in the general elections three weeks ago and leading in polls, the socialist leader of Britain's Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn has received a rapturous welcome at Europe's largest greenfield music festival in the southwest of England.

The Labour party's Jeremy Corbyn took to the main Pyramid stage on the second day of the event to address the largely young crowds. Tens of thousands of people turned up to see the 68 year old, making him one of Glastonbury's most anticipated headliners this year along with Radiohead and the Foo Fighters.

Britain: Jeremy Corbyn is already the 鈥楶eople鈥檚 PM鈥

Theresa May is now Britain鈥檚 prime minister in name only. Leading a government that may collapse within days, propped up (she hopes) by the homophobes of the Democratic Unionist Party, it is clear her time is nearly up.

So while May is in office but not in power, who has stepped into the vacuum of leadership she has left? Jeremy Corbyn.

In 鈥楾hatcher Stole My Trousers鈥, Alexei Sayle has left politics and anarchic humour marching together

鈥淗ow does it aid the revolution, you trying to be funny?鈥 The left-wing Liverpudlian Alexei Sayle, future star of the BBC鈥檚 comically demented The Young Ones, was flummoxed by this question posed to him by an exiled Arab revolutionary in Sayle鈥檚 London flat in 1971, in which the General Congress of the deadly serious Popular Front for the Liberation of the Occupied Arab Gulf was being held.

Sayle, the son of working-class communists, was a 鈥減ractising communist鈥 himself. But he also loved clowning around, he writes in Thatcher Sole My Trousers, his follow-up memoir to his childhood reminiscences in Stalin Ate My Homework.

Grenfell Tower tragedy is neoliberalism鈥檚 鈥榗ollateral damage鈥

It is too early yet to write about the tragic fire at Grenfell Tower on June 14 without being overcome by a mixture of sorrow and anger. This not just could, but should have been avoided.

The residents, including through the Grenfell Action Group, have been raising concerns about the safety of the block and the refurbishment for several years. In October, the London Fire Brigade wrote to Kensington and Chelsea Council expressing concerns about the insulation used at Grenfell. They were all ignored.

Mark Steel: This Tory-DUP deal should be interesting (video)

As the Conservatives continue their talks with the Democratic Unionist Party, columnist Mark Steel looks over the possibilities that lie ahead for the new parliament.

Angry protests demand justice as Corbyn says Grenfell survivors should be housed in empty luxury apartments

Hundreds聽of angry residents stormed council offices on June 16 as they demanded support, housing and answers over the Grenfell Tower disaster amid accusations of 鈥渕ass murder.鈥 They聽gathered outside the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea civic centre and entered the building聽to stage a sit-down protest. Council leaders refused to meet them.

Residents held placards demanding 鈥淛ustice for Grenfell鈥 and chanted 鈥渃ome downstairs鈥 as they presented a list of immediate demands to the council.

Independence mistakes, Corbyn surge shaped Scotland鈥檚 surprise election outcome

The recent British general election delivered very different results in Scotland than those of England and Wales.

While the question of Scottish independence was still a major issue for voters, tactical errors by the Scottish National Party (SNP) and a muted Jeremy Corbyn-effect in Scottish Labour鈥檚 favour led to some unforeseen outcomes.

Britain: 鈥極ur warnings fell on deaf ears鈥, Grenfell Tower Action Group denounces

In the aftermath of the fire that destroyed the 120 apartments of the Grenfell Tower in London, with at least 17 fatalities, a heartbroken Grenfell Tower Action Group to the repeated, detailed warnings it provided to authorities that the building was a disaster waiting to happen.

Britain: Left surges in inspiring challenge to Tories, austerity

In the aftermath of Britain鈥檚 June 8 elections, in which Labour defied expectations to make major gains while the Conservative government of Theresa May lost its majority, the surge of support for Labour鈥檚 socialist leader Jeremy Corbyn and his anti-austerity platform has grown.

Britain: Establishment plans upended as left campaign ends Tory majority

After promising for months that she鈥檇 never call an early election, Tory Prime Minister Theresa May called a snap general election in April 鈥 fully expecting to be returned with a thumping Conservative majority.

Britain: The socialist spirit is here to stay

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This year鈥檚 general election has been historic in marking the rebirth of Labour as a radical voice for working people and an end to cross-party parliamentary neoliberal consensus.

Tories form 'coalition of terror' with notorious DUP bigots

Theresa May desperately clung to power yesterday by resorting to a coalition of terror with the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP).

After months of smearing Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn as a so-called 鈥渢errorist sympathiser鈥 for engaging in peace talks with the IRA, she leapt into bed with the notorious loyalist party to avoid the humiliation of seeing her opportunist snap election force her out of No 10.

Ten DUP MPs will allow a government that looks set to be 鈥 in the words she previously used against other parties 鈥 a 鈥渨eak and unstable coalition of chaos.鈥