The notes for this presentation 8th September) are now available to read, and the presentation and discussion are also available to listen to as a podcast.
This issue centres on the racist riots that convulsed Britain in early August, and the creditable response by the left in Britain. Both lead articles analyse the events from different angles..
This article is being written on the 23rd August, which coincides with the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition. It was on the 23rd August 1791, that enslaved people on the island of Saint Domingue (modern-day Haiti and the Dominican Republic) rose up against French colonial rule.
This is the text of the presentation today at our forum on August’s Attempted Fascist Pogrom, and the Left’s Successful Resistance.The presentation and extensive discussion can also be listened to as a podcast
With the new government feeling the strain of civil unrest unleashed onto the streets of Britain, community tensions, and struggling to maintain order, it is facing a threat from the far right..
This is the presentation, in note form, that was given by a Consistent Democrats speaker at our educational on 21st July. The recording of the meeting is also available as a podcast.
Far from having brought about any recovery in the Labour Party’s electoral support, Starmer’s Labour got around half-a-million fewer votes than Labour led by Jeremy Corbyn in the ‘disaster’ of 2019. Yet Labour achieved the biggest majority, 174, since Blair in 1997.
Joint Statement of LCFI and ClassConscious.org The seeming assassination attempt on former President and almost dead-cert Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in Pennsylvania is one more bizarre episode as the US appears to be staggering towards the possibility of civil war. Trump gives the appearance of having been grazed on the left ear by a … Continue reading The Trump Attack and “Civil War”
…while the Popular Frontism of the left and Macron may by tactical voting have thwarted the RN in parliamentary terms, they strengthened Le Pen in terms of popular support. Which has not solved the problem therefore, it just postponed the decisive conflict until later
This is the text of the presentation today at our forum on the result of the General Election on July 4th. The presentation and extensive discussion can also be listened to as a podcast
