by Johnathan Cook (May 12, 2026) First published in Middle East Eye The question for Polanski, as for Corbyn before him, is whether the spear of an insurgent politics can pierce the billionaires' defences. There are two conclusions to be drawn from last week’s momentous local elections in Britain. The first, and most obvious, is that two-party politics in the UK is now finished. … [Read more...]
Green Party and UK Elections. Polanski: the Next Left Smear Campaign
By Joe Langabeer (May 12 2026) Republished from Left Horizons website A quote attributed to Mark Twain reads: “History does not repeat itself, but it often rhymes”. Well, in this case, history is repeating itself when it comes to Zack Polanski, the leader of the Green Party, with him being characterised as ‘antisemitic’ in a smear campaign by the press and right-wing … [Read more...]
Corbyn backs Rival Candidate for Newham
Roger Silverman reports on the campaign in the east London borough of Newham (6th May 2026). Even in the bizarre context of British politics today, it is unusual for a political party’s national leader to endorse the candidate of a rival party without even informing, let alone consulting, his own local members on the spot. But members of Your Party’s local proto-branch in Stratford and Bow … [Read more...]
EDUCATION IN A SOCIALIST SOCIETY
WIN meeting March 2026, see it HERE. According to UNESCO, there are 272 million children and young people globally (disproportionately girls) who get no schooling at all. And even in the more developed countries, under capitalism what do young people learn in their more than ten years of compulsory schooling? If it really gave them an equal chance of achieving a happy and successful life, then … [Read more...]
YOUR PARTY: A NEW BEGINNING? OR A FAILED OPPORTUNITY?
A WIN discussion March 2026. See it HERE. The result of the first elections to the Central Executive Committee of Britain’s “YOUR PARTY” would have been declared by the time of this WIN meeting. When the first steps towards creating this new party of the left were announced last July, within days 800,000 people had signed up to register their interest. Since then, months of public rivalry, … [Read more...]
The Struggle against Mandelson
Capitalism is still showing its capacity for crises of overproduction – overproduction of crises that is. Sleaze and scandal are now a staple on the news circuit and not a day seems to go by without some bombshell revelations rocking the institutions of the capitalist regime. The monarchy, the Church, the police, parliament. In fact, everywhere you look the pillars of the establishment are … [Read more...]
The Struggle for a worker’s MP on a worker’s wage
In the UK workers have experienced significant wage stagnation since the financial crash of 2008 as the capitalists made workers pay for the crisis. Real, that to say inflation-adjusted, pay fell sharply until the mid-2010s, only just returning to 2008 levels by 2025 for most workers. Overall wage growth averaged near zero or was even negative for a long period. … [Read more...]
The Struggle over Starmer’s fate
by Rhys Jameson – 12th January 2026 On the home front the capitalist media has long and loudly criticised Starmer. Mostly, it has to be said in his defence, for issues that had arisen under the previous Tory regime but at the time the media completely ignored. There was however nothing but uniform, if grudging, praise for his foreign policy where he follows the groove worn into the red carpet … [Read more...]
A NEW MASS PARTY OF THE LEFT
A WIN discussion November 2025. See it HERE. After years of pressure from below and months of wrangles at the top, the founding conference was finally held last weekend of Britain's new left party: "Your Party". The conference was devoted not to formulating policies or an action programme, but exclusively to constitutional and procedural matters: the party's name; its leadership structure; whether … [Read more...]
Zack Polanski and the Green Surge
by Ray Goodspeed (from Left Horizons website) The Green Party of England and Wales are currently seeing an extraordinary surge in its membership, not only becoming bigger than the Liberal Democrats but even overtaking the Tory Party. This has been in response to the election of a new, more radical and charismatic leader, Zack Polanski. When he was elected on 2 September, the party had … [Read more...]