Britain

The Brexit election – from revenge to resistance

By Ray M

Britain: 2019 election analysis – A victory for the Far Right. A crisis for the Left

British politics in tumult

By Susan Pashkoff

Britain: Gordon Brown’s self-exoneration rings hollow

1968 seen from Britain

By Phil Hearse May 4, 201

La política británica en transición: la austeridad, Brexit y el desafío Corbyn

Originally published in English on Links Internatio

British politics in transition: Austerity, Brexit and the Corbyn challenge

By Phil Hearse February 28, 2018

Theresa May’s Katrina: Grenfell Tower and the election outcome that wasn't supposed to happen

By Sheila Cohen and Kim Moody June 23, 2017 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Solidarity (US) — We live in a north London street which, despite its impressive 19th century architecture, is peopled mainly by “council tenants” (public housing residents). This is largely due to the left-of-center politics of the local council (government), which bought up large areas of such housing in the 1970s, limiting “development” and gentrification, and preserving much of the working class population. Perhaps as a result Labour MP Emily Thornberry, a strong supporter of Jeremy Corbyn, was re-elected with an increased majority of over 20,000 votes--63% against the Conservative’s 21%. Nationally, Labour won 30 new seats and increased its vote by 3.5 million and the Conservatives lost their majority.

They told us ‘elections are won from the centre’. We’ll never believe them again