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.
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.
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!"
Some weeks can bring mixed blessings. For instance, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull claimed a narrow victory for the Coalition in the federal election and on July 12 deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce was assaulted twice by a sheep on his farm.
The victory of the campaign for Britain to leave the European Union (鈥淏rexit鈥) in the June 23 referendum was the result of 鈥 and is intensifying 鈥 a huge right-wing anti-immigration campaign.
England lose to Iceland and 鈥淏rexit鈥 from Euro2016, June 27.
What a time to be in London. My family's long-planned vacation has given us a ringside seat for the greatest humiliations suffered by Britain since boxer Frank Bruno tried to take down a young Mike Tyson.
