Keir Starmer鈥檚 Labour government has the power to reshape Britain. However it is likely to maintain policies protecting the wealthy, targeting the vulnerable and supporting US foreign policy, and must be challenged, argues Derek Wall.
John McDonnell
In a strikingly different stance to leaders of the Australian Labor Party, which has backed the Coalition government鈥檚 support for the illegitimate coup 鈥済overnment鈥 in Venezuela, several leading members of Britain鈥檚 Labour Party have rejected the US attempt at regime change in the oil-rich South American nation.
Edited by John McDonnell
Verso, 2018
This book is a valuable collection of 16 short essays on the crisis facing modern Britain, coming up with progressive solutions which a Jeremy Corbyn-led government could usher in.
It is edited by and has an introduction by Labour鈥檚 shadow chancellor John McDonnell, a long-time socialist and close collaborator of Corbyn鈥檚. He says: 鈥淲e are seeking nothing less than to build a society that is radically fairer, more democratic and more sustainable, in which the wealth of society is shared by all.鈥
Tory-supporting media have been portraying Britain鈥檚 socialist Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn as a Soviet fellow-traveller. Meanwhile, 贬颈濒补谤测听奥补颈苍飞谤颈驳丑迟 notes, Labour鈥檚 shadow chancellor and close Corbyn ally sets out a vision that breaks with the old bureaucratic state model.
Shadow chancellor John McDonnell can usually barely breathe a word about nationalisation without setting off a media frenzy, so it鈥檚 strange that his most interesting comments yet on the subject passed with so little comment.
John McDonnell, Labour's shadow chancellor of the Exchequer,聽declared Marxism a 鈥渇orce for change today鈥 as he addressed the closing session of a conference in London marking Karl Marx鈥檚 200th birthday on May 5.
McDonnell, a close comrade of Labour's socialist leader Jeremy Corbyn, received stormy applause for a speech in which he paid tribute to the revolutionary thinker and noted that public interest in his ideas had soared since the bankers鈥 crash of 2008.
狈补迟丑补苍听is a young London-based activist who has joined the British Labour Party as a supporter of the platform of socialist leader Jeremy Corbyn. A student who is part of the National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts and a member of , Roberts was recently in Australia for the Radical Ideas conference in Melbourne organised by over August 18-20.
The strike at two branches of McDonald鈥檚 in Britain was 鈥渏ust the start鈥, Labour鈥檚 shadow chancellor John McDonnell said on September 4. Speaking at a rally outside Parliament the day before, the shadow chancellor hailed the striking workers as an 鈥渁bsolute inspiration鈥.
Workers at the burger giant鈥檚 restaurants in Cambridge and Crayford, south-east London, downed aprons in protest at the harassment of workers and the victimisation of union members.
Tens of thousands marched through central London on July 1 to protest privatisation and austerity that has led to cuts in spending for education and public services.
Many carried signs reading: "Austerity Kills," "Cuts Cost Lives," "Not One Day More," and "Tories Out."
After holding a minute's silence in honor of the victims of the deadly Grenfell Tower fire in London, which killed at least 80 people, those in the crowd also staged a round of applause for the emergency services.