Issue 498 - 8 March 2019
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Get a copy of our new pamphlet, Remain and Rebel here. Goldman Sachs is reported to be calculating on the basis of a 90% probability of Brexit being delayed or not happening at all. As we go to press on Thursday 7 March, the Tory-supporting Daily Telegraph says that Cabinet ministers now expect another defeat on 12 March. In the Toriesâ drive to ⢠end free movement between Britain and Europe ⢠risk a new âhard borderâ in Ireland ⢠raise new barriers between Britain and Europe ⢠reverse decades of economic and social integration across frontiers. In that drive, almost their only asset now is...
In an article published online in December 2018, Joni Alizah Cohen seeks to find a link between the global rise in antisemitism and the rise in transmisogyny. By âtransmisogynyâ she means the joint experience of transphobia (hostility to transgender people) and misogyny (hatred of women). The article, âThe Eradication of âTalmudic Abstractionsâ: Anti-Semitism, Transmisogyny and the National Socialist Projectâ, situates the contemporary rise in the farÂŹright as stemming from National Socialist ideals and seeks to gain an understanding of the current situation through an analysis of those...
On Tuesday 26 February, Deliveroo couriers in Manchester struck from 11 a.m. onwards, demanding better pay and other demands. They have the same core demands as in many places across the country â ÂŁ5 per delivery, paid waiting time at ÂŁ10/hour, ÂŁ1 per extra mile travelled â plus some extra demands. They have been supported by Manchester IWW. This was the second strike in a fortnight, following the Valentineâs day strike which was part of a nationally coÂŹordinated strike, in turn inspired by a series of strikes in Bristol which had started to spread elsewhere. Couriers in Manchester and...
See also A "plus" where the MSM put a "minus" Chris Williamson MP told a meeting of Sheffield Momentum on 23 February that on antisemitism: âWeâve backed off far too much, weâve given too much ground, weâve been too apologetic.â Whether Williamson is himself an antisemite, or merely monumentally insensitive and unconcerned about what Jewish people think about the Labour party, is conjecture. As a matter of record, he has form in supporting people who most definitely are antisemites: He signed a petition defending the notorious holocaust-justifier Gilad Atzmon, tweeted the petition, then...
Students from eighteen campuses across the UK gathered in Sheffield for the Student Left Networkâs first national conference on 2-3 March to discuss reshaping the student movement. Discussions included ⢠the Tiananmen Square uprising, with a Chinese student Marxist; ⢠fighting the far right and racism on campus, led by Kent Anti-Fascists ⢠campaigning against campus cuts, led by Owen Hurcum from Bangor universityâs campaign against the closure of the chemistry course and staff redundancies ⢠universities and mental health with Steff Farley from Loughborough Campus Care not Campus Cops; and â˘...
Workersâ Liberty has published a dossier which deals with the actions of a poisonous, secretive clique, âRed Londonâ. This briefing is important reading for any labour movement activist concerned to uphold basic, decent norms and comradeship inside the labour movement. âRed Londonâ is a grouping organised around an anonymous Facebook page, known primarily for deploying unevidenced smears against people it politically opposes, rather than political argument. RL people also organise in the Labour Party, Momentum and in the RMT union. They are sympathetic to the Morning Star and some of them may...
Brazilâs newly-elected far-right president Jair Bolsonaro has famously admitted that he does not understand economics, but he doesnât think that understanding is a necessary qualification for being president. He was ârunning a political campaign and not studying for university entrance examsâ. He stated that all economic policy would come from his adviser Paulo Guedes, a free-market economist and co-founder of Brazilâs free-market think-tank, the âMillenium Instituteâ in Brazil. Guedes is now Minister for the Economy in the Bolsonaro administration. Guedesâ ultra-free-market economic views...
The last person who should make Chris Williamsonâs claim that âtoo much groundâ has given to those complaining about antisemitism in the Labour Party is Williamson himself. For the last two years, Williamson has repeatedly spoken out in defence of people who have demonstrated antisemitism. He tweeted: âHands off Gilad Atzmon â sign the petition!â He has defended people who portray the political battles in the Labour Party as run by Israeli government manipulation, with the âlobbyâ â people in the Jewish community â as its agent. On occasion Williamson has expressed regret, for example for...
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