Green Party meetings in the working-class cities of Bradford and Wakefield attracted crowds of hundreds last month. Elsewhere, Green support has surged in places like Teesside and Lewisham. Polanski’s anti-establishment politics are clearly gaining attention.
The mass, collective action of the Minnesotan masses against ICE shows the way forward in the fightback against Starmer ramping up state repression. The lesson is clear: the way to fight back against state terror is with class struggle!
George Finch – Reform’s 19-year-old Warwickshire Council leader – provoked protest after attending a talk at Warwick University. While students grilled him on the inside, activists outside picketed the venue. RCP comrades intervened on the ground.
A UNISON-led campaign against Reform’s austerity cuts in Lancashire has forced a partial U-turn on the closure of care homes. But this victory came despite the soft, reformist politics of the organisers. RCP comrades intervened with clear class demands.
In the latest tranche of Epstein files, former-prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been accused of involvement in the torture and murder of trafficked girls. Prison bars aren’t punishment enough for these brutes and wretches.
RCP members hit the streets of Manchester last weekend to get a sense of the mood around the Gorton & Denton by-election. It’s clear that ordinary Mancunians are fed up with establishment politics, and despise Starmer’s Labour Party.
A massacre of Rojava and the Kurds is being prepared in Syria. US imperialism once used the Kurdish SDF (Syrian Defence Forces) as a cynical pawn. Now, Donald Trump is abandoning them to their fate. Imperialism and class collaborationism is again proving to be the gravedigger of the Kurdish cause.
Last Friday saw a momentous political general strike in Minnesota against ICE terror. This movement clearly illustrates the colossal power of the American working class and their ability to paralyse the citadel of world imperialism.
Keir Starmer is looking weak, paranoid, and isolated, after facing off Andy Burnham’s bid to return to Westminster. The Gorton & Denton by-election, meanwhile, is set to be a referendum on Starmer’s government, and could spell the beginning of the end for the Prime Minister.
With an unusually contentious Scottish Parliament election in May, the ruling Scottish National Party has thrown a few crumbs to working people in their latest budget. But these superficial ‘progressive’ measures won’t reverse the SNP’s declining support.
Donald Trump’s desire to seize control of Greenland and its resources has brought US imperialism into conflict with Europe. This puts Starmer in a quandary, as he and the British establishment attempt a delicate, unsustainable balancing act.
Former Tory minister Robert Jenrick made a very public exit from the Conservative party last week, joining the ranks of Nigel Farage’s insurgent Reform UK. Daniel Morley outlines what this means for the right wing of British politics.