Sharon Graham, the general secretary of Unite, has taken pole position within the trade union bureaucracy in advocating for the Labour government’s militarist agenda. Graham welcomed Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s February 25 announcement in Parliament of an increase in military spending from 2.3 percent to 2.5 percent of GDP …
Read More »Starmer-Trump meeting resolves nothing for British imperialism
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has announced Britain will host a summit on Sunday, reportedly involving over a dozen European leaders including France, Germany and Italy, to report back on his Thursday White House meeting with United States President Donald Trump. The only message he can deliver is one Europe’s …
Read More »UK Labour government plans savage social cuts to meet military spending demands
Britain’s Labour government is finalising massive public spending cuts to pay for an increase in military spending. On Monday Bloomberg reported, “Some UK government departments are bracing for budget cuts of as much as 11% as Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer comes under mounting pressure to plow more money into …
Read More »Opposing Gaza genocide demands a political struggle against the Starmer government
The protest at the Labour’s Party congress in Liverpool this weekend highlights the fact that the struggle against the Gaza genocide in Britain now centres on a political struggle against Keir Starmer’s government. The essential question posed is how such a struggle must be waged, on what programme and through …
Read More »Private Eye In The Back: Open season
Open season Wimbledon expansion, Issue 1626 WITH Wimbledon looming, the All England Lawn Tennis Club is in full lobbying mode for its plan to build an 8,000-seat stadium, 38 courts, 10 buildings and nine kilometres of roads and paths in its neighbouring park in south-west London, to host its qualifying …
Read More »Labour leader Keir Starmer boasts of readiness to “kill millions of people” in nuclear war
Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer has boasted that he is prepared to “kill millions of people” by using Britain’s nuclear bombs against an enemy state. He did so in an interview with ITV News during an April 12 visit to the BAE Systems shipyard in Barrow, England, where Britain’s …
Read More »UK Trades Union Congress gears up for pro-business partnership with Labour government
In likely the last gathering of the British trade unions prior to an expected general election next year, the assembled bureaucrats laid out the red carpet for Sir Keir Starmer’s right-wing, pro-war party at this year’s Trades Union Congress (TUC) annual meeting. Labour Party Deputy Leader Angela Rayner speaking at …
Read More »No to teaching in unsafe UK schools and yet more education cuts!
Teachers, support staff and children are returning to UK classrooms that are in danger of collapsing at any moment. Hundreds of schools were built between 1960 and 1990 using a type of cheap concrete (RAAC) that is prone to collapse at the end of a 30-year lifespan. Government has known …
Read More »Labour’s Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves promises more austerity for workers and no more taxes for the wealthy
Workers’ eyes will have glazed over on reading the many headlines reporting that Labour’s shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves has ruled out a wealth tax. This is like reporting the Pope has ruled out atheism. The Labour Party has made clear its total commitment to preserving the wealth of the super-rich. …
Read More »Starmer confirms Labour’s UK education strategy is warmed-over Thatcherism
In a speech at Mid-Kent College, opposition leader Sir Keir Starmer outlined Labour’s policies for education in the UK should the party win the next general election. One of “5 Missions For A Better Britain” first announced in February, Starmer claimed Labour’s mission was to “Break down the barriers to …
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