Britain

Richard Seymour on British elections: Where we go from here

By Richard Seymour

June 15, 2017 —

Earning optimism after pessimism: Salvage editorial on the British general election

‘Obedience to the force of gravity.

Socialist Resistance: For a Labour victory on June 8

Local and mayoral elections in Britain: Brexit election delivers carnival of reaction

By Phil HearseMay 11, 2017 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Left Unity — The huge Labour losses in the local council elections are just what the Labour Right was hoping for. Peter Mandelson said as much late last year, when he stated he was hoping for Theresa May to call an early election that would result in a disastrous Labour defeat and therefore the removal of Jeremy Corbyn. It’s exactly what all Corbyn’s reactionary detractors in the press and television wanted as well.

Britain: The Tories, the general election and neoliberalism’s second phase