What seemed at first to be a depressing and predictable British election, with the hard right Tories under Prime Minister Theresa May set for a larger majority, has become a fascinating election contest.
Labour鈥檚 support has surged to the point where something unthinkable just weeks ago 鈥 a Jeremy Corbyn prime ministership 鈥 is now at least an outside chance.
With less than two weeks until the June 8 general elections, a song about Tory leader Theresa May reached the Top 10 in the download chart. Yet the official chart shows on radio stations Capital FM and Heart have refused to play it.听
Performed by Captain Ska, 鈥溾 can be for 拢1 or less, with proceeds split between food banks and campaign group the People鈥檚 Assembly Against Austerity.
An eco-socialist and international coordinator听for the Greens Party of England and Wales, Derek Wall is challenging Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May as the Greens candidate for May鈥檚 seat of Maidenhead under the slogan 鈥淢ake June the End of May鈥.
Campaigning against racist migration controls, austerity and May鈥檚 support for fox hunting is giving Wall鈥檚 campaign traction, and it enjoys strong support from the Kurdish community.
The huge Labour losses in the May 4 local council elections are just what the Labour Right was hoping for.
The left has to be crystal clear about what is happening here. There are many subsidiary factors, but the root of the Conservative Party's substantial gains 鈥 500 seats won against about 400 losses for Labour 鈥 is the xenophobic nationalism of Brexit which the Tories have used ruthlessly.
Media coverage encouraged and inflamed Britain鈥檚 referendum campaign on whether to leave the European Union last year to make it the 鈥渕ost divisive, hostile, negative and fear-provoking鈥 in British history, according to a new report.
King鈥檚 College London鈥檚 Centre for the Study of Media, Communication and Power (CMCP) analysed more than 15,000 articles published online by 20 national news outlets. It found the media coverage 鈥渁crimonious and divisive鈥 and dominated by 鈥渙verwhelmingly negative鈥 reports about the consequences of migration to Britain.
I鈥檓 not one of nature鈥檚 optimists at the best of times, and a rash of media headlines predicting a doomsday scenario for Labour on June 8 aren鈥檛 exactly good for the spirits. But how far are their gloomy predictions born out by the facts of the May 4 local election results|听鈥 in which the governing Tories won 38% (up eight points from last year's vote) and Labour just 27% (down 4 points)?
This is going to be an election based more on competing policies and visions of society than any other election for a long time. Mark Serwotka, general secretary of the Public and Commercial Services union, pointed out at the London May Day rally that this is completely different to the past two elections where the challenge was to spot the difference 鈥 elections that Labour lost.
鈥淟abour is solidly ahead of the Conservatives with voters under 40 years old, despite being more than 20 points behind in the polls overall, according to a significant new poll,鈥 The Independent said on April 26.
Prime Minister Theresa May has called a general election for June 8. The Tory leader is hoping that Labour has been sufficiently weakened by the attacks of the right on Labour鈥檚 left-wing leadership around Jeremy Corbyn that she will be rewarded with a further five years in office.
It is, of course, a complete coincidence that rumours had started to emerge that the Crown Prosecution Service were about to move against 30 individuals for electoral fraud in the last general election, threatening the Conservative government.
You know how it is when you go to the movies. Sometimes the sequel has a bigger impact than the original.
The announcement by Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon that she would bring forward proposals for a second referendum on Scottish independence may prove another example of this phenomenon.
There is a real feeling across Scotland, in Westminster and the media, that this time the Yes side could win and Scotland could break from the 鈥淯nited Kingdom鈥.
On 听readers can find an interview with leading ecosocialist voice Daniel Tanuro as well as听articles looking at the ongoing fallout of the Brexit vote听and the origins of arguably the most famous slogan in revolutionary history: "All power to the Soviets!"
, the largest anti-war group in Britain, release the statement below after the attacks by a lone man in London killed four people on March 22, before being shot dead.