We need a zero-Covid strategy
Diane Abbott MP and Morning Star Editor Ben Chacko explain why they are launching a Zero Covid Coalition.
British Politics
Opening Labour for a new cold war
Despite presenting itself as a radical departure Open Labour’s new pamphlet is a continuation of the Tory “Global Britain” project.
The campaign for justice for Pat Finucane and many more will go on
The British government has announced that it will not call a public inquiry into the assassination of Pat Finucane.
The facts of the case and many more like it are well known; British security forces in Ireland established, armed, staffed and funded Loyalist death squads.
British government policies are leading to a ‘Third Wave’ of coronavirus
The latest easing measures begun on December 2nd with further easing scheduled for the holiday period seems certain to revive the numbers of cases and then, with a slight delay, an increase in hospitalisations and deaths.
Funding the new cold war
Boris Johnson has announced the biggest increase in British military spending for thirty years. This is the price for British government participation in U.S. imperialism’s new cold war against China and the developing nations.
Boris Johnson’s 10 point plan underpromises and is bound to underdeliver
Boris Johnson’s ten-point plan for the Environment will not put the UK on track for reaching net zero by 2050. The gap between the vainglorious patriotic bombast and the miserable reality of half-hearted nudges to the private sector with less than world leading levels of investment is quite apparent.