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Britain: Keir Starmer wins Labour Party leadership — a Big Setback

The victory of Keir Starmer in the election to choose the Labour Party leader, with Angela Rayner as deputy, is undoubtedly a major setback for the left and has been greeted by much fanfare by the main mouthpieces of the capitalist class

Apr 11, 2020

Covid-19 Pandemic

COVID-19: Government intervention as “free market” fails

By Daniel Waldron “Now is not the time for ideology” – this has been the refrain from the Tory government, echoed by Arlene Foster, as the state has been forced to intervene into the economy in a way not seen since the

Mar 23, 2020

Britain: EU election leaves main parties reeling

By Daniel Waldron The European election in Britain – which was never meant to have taken place – saw the two main parties take a battering as voters largely used the poll to voice their opinion on Brexit. The Tories were punished

May 29, 2019

World News

Britain- Mass demonstrations greet Trump

By reporters from the Socialist Party in England and Wales A human tide swept central London on 13 July in a historic mobilisation against the racist, sexist billionaire president of the US, Donald Trump, who was visiting the UK. It is estimated

Jul 20, 2018

Britain: Russia, spies and nerve agents

By Peter Taaffe, General Secretary, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) Jeremy Corbyn is broadly right and his pro-capitalist critics both within the Tory government and their Labour fifth column in the Parliamentary Labour Party are wrong and lying in their responses

Mar 21, 2018

Britain: After elections, May and the Tories must go!

Theresa May’s failed election gamble is a nightmare for the capitalist class in Britain. Seven weeks ago most of Britain’s elite were hopeful that May would succeed in dramatically increasing the number of Tory MPs, thereby buttressing her government to be able to weather

Jun 10, 2017

Britain: Mobilise for a mass movement after general election

The closing of the opinion polls, even after the horrific Manchester bombing, has confounded all wings of the capitalist establishment. The Blairites in Labour are a key part of this coalition and they are just as terrified of the prospect of Jeremy

Jun 4, 2017

World News

Britain: Corbyn victory!

Below is a statement by Socialist Party’s sister party in England and Wales on the victory of Jeremy Corbyn in the Labour leadership election. This is a historic moment. Nothing will be the same again. For decades Westminster politics has meant nothing

Sep 14, 2015

Corbyn challenge shows political upheaval in Britain

As the Labour Party prepares to send out ballot papers to the over 610,000 people registered to vote in its leadership contest, “The Socialist” asked Socialist Party (Sister party of the Socialist Party in England & Wales) executive committee member Judy Beishon some questions

Aug 18, 2015

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