The debate over the question of whether or not to renew the Trident missile system took a turn this weekend, when it was revealed that a Trident missile – in contrast to the Tories’ assurances in Parliament – had malfunctioned in a test-firing off the coast of Florida, accidentally heading in the direction of the USA.
After months of speculation over the possible terms of Britain’s departure from the EU, Prime Minister May announced on Tuesday that she would abandon the single market if necessary, in favour of ending the free movement of labour. Whilst appeasing her party and her voters, she has left the Establishment gravely concerned about the uncertain future ahead.
The NHS is in crisis. Ambulances are queueing up waiting for free trolleys and beds in A&E departments. And the Red Cross is having to intervene in hospitals across the country. All this thanks to Tory policy. Labour must now go on the offensive and offer a socialist alternative.
At a stroke, Momentum’s democratic structures have been abolished; the tireless work of thousands of Corbyn supporters over the past year-and-a-half thrown out the window. Overnight, grassroots activists have been shunted to the side in what can only be described as a coup. Momentum’s rank-and-file members must not stand for this behaviour.
It seems a week does not go by without the working conditions of warehouse workers being further exposed at what were seen as “reputable” companies. We publish here the story of a warehouse worker at ASOS, the online fashion business, who describes the super-exploitative conditions he and others face every day.
It emerged last week that a “humanitarian crisis” in the NHS has forced the Red Cross to intervene in UK hospitals, with Red Cross staff now working in 20 A&E departments across the country due to the lack of staff and beds. Such horror stories are a damning indictment of the Tory government and the capitalist system they represent.
Within the next three months, the Brexit negotiations with the European Union will officially start. The plan is to leave within two years. But the recent resignation of Britain’s ambassador to the EU has highlighted the likelihood of neither soft Brexit, nor hard Brexit, but “train-crash Brexit”, with chaotic consequences on all sides.
With homeless people dying on our streets, millions of workers scraping by on the minimum wage and zero-hours contracts, and huge numbers reliant on food banks, Britain’s top executives are doing better than ever, earning more in a couple of days than workers will in a whole year.
Another week, another terrible headline for Corbyn in the Guardian, this time courtesy of their friends in the Fabian Society. But the shock announcement that “Labour could slump to below 150 MPs” is just a thin veneer to mask the Labour right wing’s desire to see the party fail and provide an excuse for another coup against Corbyn.
The real face of modern capitalism has been exposed by recent news investigations, who have uncovered brutal and dehumanising conditions in the warehouses of big businesses such as JD Sports and Sports Direct. Rob Sewell looks at the return of Dickensian working conditions in 21st century Britain.
As the last citizens of eastern Aleppo are evacuated, these innocent victims of war have also become caught in the crossfire of Labour’s civil war, used by the warwongering Blairites as a stick with which to beat Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the Labour movement and stalwart of the anti-war movement in the UK.
Over one year on from its formation, and after months of internal wrangling about its democratic structures, and Momentum still lacks both any pace or direction. Amidst this acrimony, most tragically, crucial political questions have been neglected. Momentum needs to set on the task of transforming the Labour Party and fighting for socialism.